GERMANY: Siemens Mobility is expanding its locomotive manufacturing and services plant in München-Allach from 50 000 to 80 000 m2 to provide additional capacity, optimise production and logistics flows and provide more office space.
The site ‘is one of the most modern locomotive factories in Europe, using the latest innovative technologies like laser welding robots, augmented reality and 3D simulations with digital twins’, said CEO for Rolling Stock Albrecht Neumann on April 3.
‘The added capacities will enable us to increase production output and meet growing market demand in Europe. We’ll now be able to build more than 300 locomotives a year in Allach and create new, highly qualified jobs in the plant.’
CEO for Customer Services Johannes Emmelheinz added that Siemens Mobility is seeking to enhance its servicing facilities along the trans-European rail corridors, and expanding the Allach site would enable closer interaction between the locomotive servicing activities and key data centres.
