西门子以35亿美元收购UGS软件公司

Siemens to acquire UGS Corp. 

西门子收购UGS软件公司

Siemens Automation and Drives becomes worldwide first supplier of software and hardware across the complete lifecycle of products

西门子自动化和驱动成为全球首家提供贯穿整个产品生命周期的软件和硬件供应商
 
Nuremberg, January 25, 2007 -- Siemens moves to expand its industrial software portfolio through a definitive agreement to acquire UGS Corp., Texas, USA, a worldwide leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software and services. The agreement was made between Siemens and the current owners Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus. The purchase price amounts to US $3.5 billion, including assumption of existing debt. The activities of UGS are to be assigned to the Siemens Automation and Drives Group (A&D). A&D will thus become the first supplier for the manufacturing industries to provide an end-to-end software and hardware portfolio encompassing the complete lifecycle of products and production facilities. The transaction is subject to the approval by the relevant authorities.

纽伦堡1月25日消息——通过与位于美国德克萨斯州的全球领先的产品生命周期管理（PLM）软件和服务提供商UGS公司达成最终的收购协议 ，西门子开始拓展其工业软件业务。西门子与UGS公司的现有者拜恩资产（Bain Capital）、银湖合伙（Silver Lake Partners）和Warburg Pincus公司达成了此协议。收购价格大约为35亿美元，包括承担UGS的现有债务。UGS的业务将分配给西门子自动化和驱动集团（A&D)。A&D将因此成为首家向制造行业提供包括完整产品生命周期和生产设备的端到端软件和硬件业务供应商。该交易正在等待有关当局的审批。
 
With a global workforce of 7,300 and more than 46,000 customers in 62 countries, UGS, headquartered in Plano, Texas, U.S., is a worldwide leader in PLM software and services. PLM is a mission-critical, enterprise business platform that helps companies innovate and grow by enabling them to digitally create, build and manage their products. UGS is a supplier to customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer goods, electronics and machinery industries around the world. UGS and Siemens A&D already started their business relationship in 2003 with joint projects addressing digital manufacturing technology.

UGS公司 在全球62个国家拥有7千3百名雇员和超过4万6千个客户，总部位于美国德州的普莱诺，是PLM软件和服务的全球领导者。PLM是一个通过数字化地创造、建立和管理产品，帮助企业创新和发展的以任务为核心的企业业务平台。UGS公司是全球汽车、航空和国防、消费品、电子和机械行业客户的供应商。UGS和西门子A&D集团在2003年就已经开始了业务合作，为客户提供数字生产技术联合方案。
 
UGS’ software portfolio covers the entire array of collaborative Product Data Management (cPDM), computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing/computer-aided engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) and digital manufacturing simulation (‘digital factory’), the company holds strong revenue and market share positions globally in digital manufacturing and cPDM – the fastest-growing segments within the PLM market. In fiscal 2005, the company reported revenue of just under US$1.2 billion, in the Third Quarter 2006, the company reported its 13th consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth.

UGS的软件业务涵盖了整个 协同产品数据管理 (cPDM)、计算机辅助设计/计算机辅助生产/计算机辅助施工(CAD/CAM/CAE)，以及数字生产模拟（数字工厂）领域，公司在PLM市场中发展最快的数字生产和cPDM领域保有很高的全球市场份额地位和营收。在2005财年，该公司的报道营收接近12亿美元，在2006年的第三季度，公司取得了逐年连续第十三个季度的营收增长。
 
“With the acquisition of UGS, we combine its competence in the sector of digital factories with our leading know-how in industrial automation. This combination makes our customers’ processes faster, better and more cost efficient. With the unique combination, we underscore our position as a trendsetter in automation systems and bring this business into a new dimension,” said Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO of Siemens AG.

西门子集团总裁兼首席执行官Klaus Kleinfeld表示：”通过收购UGS，我们将其在数字工厂领域的实力与我们在工业自动化领域的领先技术结合了起来。这一合并使我们客户的过程更快、更好、更有效率。通过这一非凡的联合，我们加强了我们作为自动化系统领域潮流引领者的地位，并且将这项事业带领到一个新的规模。“
 
The offer of Siemens A&D is based on a comprehensive, technologically consistent product portfolio ('Totally Integrated Automation'), enabling Siemens to provide every customer with an integrated package of engineering and automation systems. By integrating more than 3000 software engineers of UGS, the Group will employ around 7000 software experts in total. Helmut Gierse, President of Siemens A&D, explains: "Seamless flow of information and data enable collaboration across the whole value chain. This is becoming crucial to increase productivity in the manufacturing industries where the competitive pressure is constantly rising. With the combined portfolio of A&D and UGS, our customers will be able to enter a complete new scale of efficiency, whether they are manufacturers, engineering service partners, system integrators or machine builders. Integrated solutions will lead to reduced production costs, higher product quality, shorter time to market and increased flexibility toward market trends. On the basis of our unique offer, we aim at a long term continuation of sustainable value enhancement for A&D.”

西门子自动化和驱动集团的业务基于一个全面的、技术一致的产品组合（”全集成自动化”），使得西门子可以向每个客户提供一套工程和自动化系统集成包。通过收编UGS的3千多名软件工程师，自动化和驱动集团将一共拥有大约7千名软件专家。西门子自动化和驱动集团总裁Helmut Gierse解析道：“信息流和数据的无缝结合实现了整个价值链的协作。这成为在竞争压力日渐增加的制造领域提升生产力的关键。通过A&D和UGS的业务联合，我们的客户无论是制造商、工程服务合作商、系统集成商或者是机械制造商，都将进入一个全新的效率级别。集成解决方案将降低生产成本，提高产品质量，缩短上市时间以及增加市场趋势的灵活度。在我们独特的业务基础上，我们的目标是实现A&D可持续价值增长的长期发展。”
 
The world market for PLM software and services has a volume of approximately US$13 billion with projected yearly growth rates of 7 percent to 9 percent. From a technological point of view, the market will be influenced by the convergence of product lifecycle, manufacturing and enterprise information technologies in many segments. The previous islands of product development, manufacturing and service software will increasingly transform into one integrated systems business. This enables a complete-solution supplier to achieve higher growth rates, greater value added and possibilities for differentiation from competitors.

全球PLM软件和服务的市场总量大约为130亿美元，预计年增长率为7％到9％ 。技术的观点认为，这个市场将受到诸多领域产品生命周期、生产和企业信息技术集中的影响。此前产品开发、生产和服务软件的各自独立将逐渐转为一个集成系统业务。这使得一家完整解决方案供应商可以实现更快的发展速度，取得更多的附加价值以及区别于竞争对手的可能性。
 
The design of future production systems will reach from the creative product-design process with CAD tools to the choice and design of logistics, service and recycling strategies. Through the use of smart and modular mechatronic systems, production will be changed and adjusted swiftly and flexibly. One of the key differentiating factors of success will be the early engineering phase establishing a digital link between product development and production, including product traceability facilities and possibilities to synchronise with merchandise management systems.

未来生产系统的设计将从使用CAD工具的创造性产品设计过程延伸到物流、服务和再循环策略的选择和设计。通过利用模块化的智能机电系统，生产将得到快速灵活的改变和调整。成功的关键区别因素之一将是在产品开发和生产之间建立一个数字链接的早期工程阶段，包括产品可追溯性设备和与商品管理系统同步的可能性。
 
Siemens A&D and UGS are each known for their leadership in open standards and interfaces in their respective industries. “By combining expertise in the physical world of automation and the virtual world of PLM software, Siemens will be the only company able to offer integrated software and hardware solutions to its customers throughout their whole production process. All our future industrial software and hardware products will support today’s and future leading interfaces and standards. We aim to be the first to market with innovative digital factory solutions, which truly unify the engineering and automation domain,” stated Gierse.

西门子自动化和驱动集团和UGS在各自领域都是以其开放式标准和端口的领导地位而知名。Gierse声明道：“通过结合自动化领域物质世界和PLM软件虚拟世界的技术。西门子将成为唯一可以向客户提供贯穿整个生产过程的集成软件和硬件解决方案的公司。我们未来所有的工业软件和硬件产品将支持现今和将来的领先端口和标准。我们的目标是成为首家向市场提供可以真正统一工程和自动化领域的创新数字工厂解决方案的公司。”
 
“The combination of Siemens and UGS is a clear game-changer in the global PLM industry due to our shared vision of ‘Totally Integrated Automation,’” said Tony Affuso, chairman, CEO and president of UGS. “Our customers win through the backing of the long-term security of their system investments provided by one of the world’s largest and most successful and innovative companies. In addition, we are able to provide added value to Siemens’ customers by virtue of being the most practiced PLM provider in open systems, which eases integration with the Siemens technology already in place in all of our key markets.”

UGS主席、首席执行官兼总裁Tony Affuso表示：“因为我们对‘全集成自动化”有共同的看法，西门子和UGS的合并显然是全球PLM产业的竞争改变者。我们的客户将从世界上最大和最成功的创新公司之一对他们系统投资所提供的长期的安全支援而获益。此外，利用我们是开放式系统领域最熟练的供应商优势，在我们的所有主要市场轻松地与西门子技术整合，为西门子客户提供更多的价值。“

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