Education and Training at Siemens

In a rapidly changing industrial world, ever more emphasis is placed on thorough and continuous intra-company education and training programs. In keeping with this dynamic development, the educational activities of Siemens Aktienge-sellschaft-a universal electrotechnical enterprise with general offices in Munich and 300 000 employees in more than 100 countries-have been replanned and fundamentally reorganized. General and staff-oriented knowledge is administered by central or corporate education departments; product or line-oriented knowledge is administered by decentralized or regional departments. Proposals for desired courses of study are solicited from both supervisory and non-supervisory personnel. Education centers in Erlangen and Munich and one management center are presently under construction or in the planning stages. Intra-plant educational activities are continually coordinated with publicly available education programs. The current investment in training of some 10,000 future employees amounts to 22-million dollars per year. 50 000 employees are currently enrolled in intra-company post-experience education programs, encompassing approximately 3-million enrollment hours and outlays of 18-million dollars per year.