Siemens expands its rail automation activities in Slovakia by opening an Engineering Center at its Zilina location

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 Automation Business 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.

Siemens Mobility has been active in Zilina since 2002. Engineers from this location worked, for example, on the construction of the Dammam–Riyadh railway line in Saudi Arabia and on the Deventer railway station in the Netherlands. In conjunction with its activities in Zilina, the Siemens Division maintains close relations based on partnership with the local university and with the faculty for transport that is based there. Zilina has long been regarded as the center for transport for the former eastern bloc countries of Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.