Singapore

Singapore has an excellent public transport system - and Siemens has supplied all the trains for the Woodlands MRT line. Singapore also installed a fully automatic road toll system back in the early 1990s in order to reduce smog and traffic congestion.

Back in 1991, Siemens installed four gas turbines for the Senoko Power company, and these were integrated into Singapore's first combined cycle power plant in 1996. Then, in 2003, Siemens was awarded the life extension turnkey project for the same power plant. Siemens also completed an environmentally friendly power plant for PowerSeraya in Singapore. In addition, Siemens was responsible for providing the world's largest computer-based supervisory control and data acquisition system, which ensures the efficient control and monitoring of Singapore's power transmission and distribution network, including more than 5,000 substations.

An intelligent Siemens solution for postal automation has enabled SingPost - Singapore's leading service provider for mail sent within the country and abroad - to double its productivity. Wieland Metals Singapore (Pte.) Ltd meanwhile awarded Siemens a contract to equip a new cold-rolling mill and a facility for non-ferrous metals with automation and drive technology. In addition, lighting systems from Siemens can be found in numerous buildings in the city, as well as at Changi Airport.

Up until now, Singapore has been very dependent on foreign sources for its water supply. Local rainwater and ground water can meet only half of its demand; the rest must be imported from neighboring Malaysia. Now, however, a treatment plant from Siemens is recycling Singapore's waste water into highly pure water, thanks to the use of membrane filter technology and ultraviolet disinfection. This "NEWater," as it is called, has become a type of cult drink that is consumed by Singapore's prime minister, who also serves it to state guests. It's almost a waste to use such highly pure water for drinking; most of it is in fact utilized by industries that need very pure water for the production of semiconductors, for example. The plant currently supplies 40,000 cubic meters of drinking water daily (40 million liters), and there are plans to expand the facility. Singapore expects the plant to be meeting 20 percent (i.e. around 210,000 cubic meters) of its daily water needs by 2012. Siemens also supplied drives, motors, switchgears, switchboards and analyzers for Singapore's most recent waste water treatment facility - the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System. In addition, the company provided comprehensive automation solutions in accordance with its Totally Integrated Automation concept.

Half of the high-quality diagnostic imaging equipment in Singapore's hospitals is from Siemens. For example, Singapore General Hospital uses PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) from Siemens to simplify and speed up radiology processes. The hospital was also the first in the ASEAN region to introduce the Siemens MAGNETOM Avanto magnetic resonance tomograph equipped with Total Imaging Matrix (TIM) technology. The device cuts examination time for cardiac patients in half. The Soarian workflow system, which makes hospital processes more efficient, is also already being used in Singapore, at the National Healthcare Group hospital, for example.