Siemens’ Mobility Division is expanding its engineering capacities in Zilina, Slovakia in order to sharpen its international focus on project processing. From now on, the Rail Automation Business Unit will have its own department in the Zilina Engineering Center. This new department was officially opened for business today under the leadership of Siemens Slovakia and the corporate research unit (Corporate Technology). The Rail Assess Unit of Siemens Mobility intends to increase the number of configuration engineers at its location in Zilina, Slovakia to 130 in the next five years. They will be used for the configuration of control and signaling solutions. This expansion in the rail automation field is the Mobility Division’s response to the encouraging market trend in railway infrastructure. This applies in particular to the automatic train control segment and will above all strengthen the international business clout of this Slovakian facility. Read More
