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 Roke Manor Research and Siemens
Siemens, headquartered in Germany, is one of the world’s largest electrical engineering and electronics companies.
Siemens UK Siemens businesses in the UK design and manufacture products and systems ranging from traffic lights and gas turbines, to the superconducting magnets used in medical scanners and the drives that are behind many of the UK's manufacturing plants.
Siemens is also heavily involved in the provision of UK services - managing, for example, Barclays' back office processes, BP’s UK telecommunications infrastructure and the running of a major extension at Barnet Hospital.
www.roke.co.uk /about/siemens.php   (191 words)

  
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But both GEC and Plessey were entirely answerable to their shareholders, and both companies were inextricably in the coils of the major customers, British Telecom, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Defence.
Plessey is such an important name in the history of Swindon that it is also difficult to overstate its role in the development as the town as we know it today.
For years after Plessey closed, the social club was called the ex-Plessey Club and was to be one of the most persistent reminders of its former glory after the firm's importance as an employer declined.
members.lycos.co.uk /diy/plessey/plesseyhistory.htm   (10414 words)

  
 Siemens Plessey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siemens Plessey was the name given to the Plessey businesses acquired by Siemens AG in 1989.
Plessey, a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company, was at the time the second largest defence electronics contractor to the Ministry of Defence and the largest supplier of traffic control equipment.
In 1997 Siemens came to an agreement with British Aerospace and Daimler-Benz Aerospace for the takeover of its defence electronics unit, with BAe acquiring the UK operations and DASA acquiring the German part of the business, respectively.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siemens_Plessey   (226 words)

  
 Siemens GEC Communication Systems - Australia and New Zealand
Siemens Communications was a joint venture company formed in February 1997 as part of a global merger of the private communications businesses of Siemens AG and the General Electric Company PLC.
Operating as part of the worldwide Siemens Private Communication Systems group, we are proud to be part of the largest supplier of PABX systems in the world.
Siemens Communications is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices located in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Auckland.
www.dazed.org /payphones/index.htm   (986 words)

  
 Siemens Resources & Information - siemens motor
It was founded by Werner von Siemens on October 1, 1847, based on the telegraph he had invented that used a needle to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using the Morse code.
Siemens AG is listed on the Frankfurt sx66 Stock Exchange and also on the New York siemens Stock Exchange since mobiles March siemens 12, 2001.
A ringtones Japanese subsidiary was established in siemens 1923.
www.bizhisto.com /siemens.htm   (1132 words)

  
 Plessey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The level of GEC's involvement in the Plessey defence businesses was not likely to meet with regulatory approval and in February GEC Siemens announced a new organisation.
GEC-Plessey Telecommunications (GPT): 60% GEC and 40% Siemens
In 1997 British Aerospace and Daimler-Benz Aerospace acquired the UK operations and German part of Siemens Plessey Systems, respectively.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plessey   (627 words)

  
 European Business News (EBN), 97-03-11
Siemens denied a newspaper report that said it has decided to spin off its defence electronics business, but acknowledged its defence electronics unit had hired a U.S. bank to help find a joint venture partner or buyer for the business.
But the spokeman would not confirm a newspaper report that Siemens had given up interest in a joint venture and was concentrating solely on divesting the electronics group.
Siemens defence electronics, which employs 5,000 workers, most of them at Siemens Plessey in Great Britain, had sales of 1.6 billion marks in the year that ended September 30.
www.hri.org /news/europe/ebn/last/97-03-11.ebn.html   (2784 words)

  
 Siemens Plessey Systems preferred bidder for GP3 contract of Defence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Siemens Plessey Systems has been selected as the preferred bidder to provide GP3, the British Army's major command and control system which will provide the commander-in-chief, and his subordinate commanders, with an advanced means to plan and conduct operations.
The Siemens Plessey Systems team will be using the Dynamic Systems Development Method for this Rapid Application Development project.
Siemens Plessey Systems' proven expertise in battlefield communications and data replication has enabled the company to propose a robust solution capable of effective use on all current and future tactical communications bearers.
defence-data.com /rnbaee/pagern12.htm   (339 words)

  
 Corps Memorandum Nr 12
Details concerning the individual are to be advised to Siemens Ltd by 1 March of the year following completion of the course.
Siemens Ltd makes arrangements for the provision of the handbook and the cheque, for presentation at an appropriate occasion as determined by the Chief instructor School of Signals in consultation with the Company.
The School of Signals is to arrange for the perpetual honour board to be inscribed.
home.vicnet.net.au /~rasigsau/mem_chap_12.HTM   (3410 words)

  
 History of Roke Manor Research Limited
Initially most of the work was for defence applications, but in the mid 1980s work began on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching for the commercial telecommunications market and GSM cellular telephony.
Following the take-over of Plessey by Siemens and GEC in 1990, Siemens took part-ownership of Roke Manor Research in 1990.
Today, it is recognised as a centre of excellence in the UK for research and development.
www.roke.co.uk /company/history.asp   (172 words)

  
 Siemens UK Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Siemens has announced a £3.2 million deal to sponsor the British Rowing Team to the end of 2012.
Fact - Siemens medical equipment screens 15,000 women in the UK for breast cancer every week day of the year.
Siemens joins networking organisation for women in business
www.siemens.co.uk   (115 words)

  
 Legal Affairs
The cameras were stock items for the company, the type of security devices that you might find at a mall in Florida or in thousands of other public spaces throughout the world.
Yet the Siemens Plessey cameras would play a central role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Siemens Plessey was criticized for supplying the police with the means to suppress dissent.
www.legalaffairs.org /issues/January-February-2006/feature_bambauer_janfeb06.msp   (3083 words)

  
 BBC News | Business | British Aerospace buys Siemens
Siemens Defence Electronics makes radar systems and communications equipment for army and navy use.
British Aerospace plans to convert subsidiary company Siemens Plessey Systems into its own defence systems business.
The Managing Director of Dorset-based Siemens Plessey Systems, Clive Dolan, said he too was "delighted" the companies had beaten off other bidders.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/business/18740.stm   (166 words)

  
 ITT Defence Signs Bowman Agreement with Siemens Plessey and Racal
According to Giuliano, the proposal would deliver genuine advantages to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence in terms of improved system performance, cost savings through ongoing competition for the sub-systems, risk reduction and through-life enhancement, while continuing to ensure the system's early inservice date.
ITT Defence, Siemens Plessey and Racal also have agreed to enter into discussions with a view to extending the proposed arrangements to cover the joint marketing of the new products to meet world-wide export opportunities.
Its affiliate, ITT Defence, together with Siemens Plessey and Racal, represent a powerful combination in serving the worldwide marketplace," Giuliano commented.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/49568&EDATE=   (529 words)

  
 The Merger Reference (GEC, Siemens and Plessey) Order 1989
The text of this Internet version of the Statutory Instrument which is published by the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament has been prepared to reflect the text as it was Made.
Where you see a "continue" button at the bottom of the page of text, this indicates that there is another chunk of text available.
The proposed mergers of GEC and Plessey and of Siemens and Plessey have been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.
www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si1989/Uksi_19890027_en_1.htm   (991 words)

  
 Siemens Plessey Systems joins world class team to secure BOWMAN LAS competition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Siemens Plessey Systems joins world class team to secure BOWMAN LAS competition
Siemens Plessey Systems has joined the team led by Hunting Engineering Limited to compete for the BOWMAN LAS requirement, the third team member being Computing Devices Canada.
Siemens Plessey Systems is pre-eminent in the field of networking and communication systems.
defence-data.com /rnbaee/pagern5.htm   (236 words)

  
 Airport Technology - Kotoka International Airport (ACC/DGAA), Accra, Ghana
Firms that bid for phase 2 included Bouygues and Dumez from France, Fitzpatrick and Taylor Woodrow of the UK, Bilfinger and Berger from Germany, Dragados from Spain, Skanska from Sweden and Vermeer from the Netherlands.
Siemens Plessey, which carried out the first phase in the early 1990s, chose not to bid for the second phase.
The Swedish contractor, Skanska, and its consortium won the contract.
www.airport-technology.com /projects/kotoka   (664 words)

  
 BAESYSTEMS.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
British Aerospace signs agreement to acquire Siemens Plessey Systems (UK) and Siemens Plessey Electronics Systems (Australia) for approximately £319 million subsequent to regulatory approval.
British Aerospace forms new business unit ‘British Aerospace Defence Systems’ from 50% shareholding in BAeSEMA, 49% shareholding in STN Atlas and other company defence systems activities, including Siemens Plessey Systems subject to completion.
British Aerospace completes the acquisition of Siemens Plessey Systems (SPS) from Siemens AG following regulatory approval.
www.baesystems.com /facts/awards/evolution4.htm   (488 words)

  
 South Africa's Nuclear Autopsy
"There's not much there now...it's just a potential satellite production house." Most of Houwteq's engineers have been hired away by other firms such as Siemens Plessey, a company that formerly made transponders for the space launcher.
Siemens Plessey was forced to return "two or three cabinets full of technical files" to Houwteq as part of the rocket destruction plan, according to a Plessey engineer.
Somchem, the second most important rocket company after Houwteq, was obliged to destroy the solid propellants and rocket casings it had made for the space launcher.
www.wisconsinproject.org /countries/safrica/autopsy.html   (2033 words)

  
 TUV Product Service - History of BABT and TUV Product Service
In 1997 TUV Product Service GmbH (www.tuvps.com) entered a joint venture with Siemens in which it invested a majority shareholding in the National Engineering and Assessment Group in the UK.
Founded over forty years ago as part of Plessey, it is now part of TUV Product Service Limited.
Over the past four decades, it has enhanced its capability from a support service to Plessey for reliability, assessment and calibration to possibly Europe's most comprehensive testing laboratory for EMC, TEMPEST and environmental testing.
www.tuvps.co.uk /history.asp   (1158 words)

  
 Siemens AG
Siemens AG (FWB:SIE, NYSE: SI)is the world's largest electronics company.
It has international headquarters in Berlin and Munich, Germany.
Key business areas and subsidiary companies of Siemens AG
www.1bx.com /en/Siemens_AG.htm   (912 words)

  
 Phone system solutions; Marcom Communications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Qualified Siemens: Voice Communications Partner and IP Systems Communications partner
Technically installing Siemens / Plessey systems since 1992
Full support from Siemens for customers if anything ever happens to Marcom
www.marcom.com /marcom_siemens.php   (49 words)

  
 Big Brother Incorporated Introduction
The notorious human rights abuses in Indonesia - particularly those affecting East Timor - would not be possible without the strategic and technological support of Western companies.
Headed by the president of Mitsubishi, the chairman of EDS, and the vice chairman of Siemens Corporation, the GIIC intends to create a conglomerate of interests powerful enough to subsume government interest in regulation.
The effort is being funded to a large extent by the World Bank, which in early 1994 appears to have been persuaded by CSIS that unregulated economic investment was more important to developing economies than social and political reform.
www.privacy.org /pi/reports/big_bro/intro.html   (1762 words)

  
 et blip a hoax?
The frequency of this signal was given as 1453.827 Mhz.
This anonymous amateur radio-astronomer (later suspiciously identified as "Paul Dore" of Siemens Plessey Systems in England) provided several "screen dumps" of the signal from a shareware program called FFTDSP written by amateur radioman AF9Y Mike Cook, and is available for download at http://www.webcom.com/af9y/.
Art Bell, Coast to Coast late-night radio talk show host, jumped on the announcement of the possible extraterrestrial signal detection with his usual brand of sensationalist broadcasting.
members.tripod.com /~whitebird_2/seti-hoax.html   (1117 words)

  
 oct29b   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
At first the part-time astronomer who discovered the signals would not reveal his identity.
However he has since been named as Paul Dore of Siemens Plessey Systems in the UK.
He has been using a small radio telescope belonging to his firm to scan the sky for intelligent signals.
www.k3pgp.org /seti/oct29b.htm   (516 words)

  
 Name: Mark Papiani
Siemens Plessey Controls Ltd, Sopers Lane, Poole, Dorset, BH17 7ER
Principal Hardware Design Engineer: Responsible for a road traffic control system that has been sold worldwide in multi-million pound contracts.
Made dramatic cost reductions by suggesting ‘buy not build’ for key components  (modems, transformers, PSUs) whilst complying with Siemens philosophy that every component or system should have an alternative source to maintain vendor independence.
www.papiani.com   (1886 words)

  
 Work
April 1990 to October 1990 :- Siemens Plessey Defence Systems in Havant, near Portsmouth (UK).
Relocated to Christchurch, when SPDS decided to close the Southleigh Park site.
November 1990 to March 1994 :- Siemens Plessay Defence Systems in Christchurch (UK).Left here to be closer to my girlfriend (who is now my wife), who lived in Derby.
www.angelfire.com /ia/ianwebber/Work.htm   (220 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Siemens AG
Siemens AG is the world's largest electronics company.
Like many big German companies, Siemens supported Hitler and used slave labour during the Second World War.
Siemens SPPA-T3000 Control System (For Electrical Power Generation Control)
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Siemens_AG   (961 words)

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