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Integrated systems eliminate islands of automation by consolidating process information into one centralized location, which enables you to have access to all your data, when and where you need it, enabling faster and more accurate process decision-making.
 
SIMATIC PCS 7 is an open system that offers a variety of options for systems integration utilizing PROFIBUS, OPC, Foundation Fieldbus, Modbus, and/or HART. For example, PROFIBUS can help you integrate your existing process devices and PLCs installed on specialized equipment and skids in your process plants. PROFIBUS offers complete integration of process instrumentation, such as pressure transmitters and flow meters, and discrete control devices such as drives, motors, and discrete I/O. This integration creates one common environment for your plant, ultimately lowering your engineering, training, and maintenance costs while improving operational and energy efficiency.
 
Siemens also now offers a new system integration and configuration service, SIBASIC, that can help make your PCS 7 project implementation faster and more economical. 
 
Learn more about Siemens integration solutions.




Learn how to integrate energy management practices into process control
Reduce costs and optimize assets by integrating Smart MCCs
SIBASIC helps you choose the right level of integration for your projects.
Join Siemens for SITRAIN USA Technical Training and receive a special offer!

Learn how to integrate energy management practices into process control

Did you know that process automation systems today offer the possibility of integrating energy usage information? This capability provides a platform for you to understand the energy usage within your manufacturing facilities by helping you tie the energy usage information to your production processes.
 
Lehigh Cement Company in Union Bridge, MD, has adopted this novel approach in its new cement production facility. Using PCS 7 as the central point of their energy management scheme, Lehigh is now able to save and manage the use of electrical energy.
Read the Lehigh Cement case study

Reduce costs and optimize assets by integrating Smart MCCs

Learn how your process control system can integrate and control high-speed discrete devices like MCCs, drives, soft starters, breakers, and power metering devices, helping your plant operate at its optimum level!
 
The tight integration of motors, drives, and Siemens "Smart" MCCs into a process automation system not only cuts energy consumption, it also enables you to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership in an environmentally responsible way, resulting in reduction of installation, commissioning, operation, and maintenance costs.
Read the white paper to learn how

SIBASIC helps you choose the right level of integration for your projects.

Siemens new Base Automation System Integration and Configuration (SIBASIC) services help you to accelerate the design and engineering of PCS 7 process automation projects.
 
SIBASIC makes it possible to get portions of your PCS 7 system highly pre-configured and pre-tested, thereby eliminating risk and cost.
 
Hardware integration services
The system integration services use pre-engineered standards and improved work processes for PCS 7 controllers, ET200M I/O rails, power supplies, marshalled termination assemblies, cabinets, PCs, and other Siemens components:
Full Cabinets: Deliver cost effective, fast, repeatable, “standard” PCS 7 cabinets
ET 200M I/O Rail Assemblies
Third-party PC Integration
 
Software configuration services
Configuration services leverage Siemens expertise, engineering tools, software standards, and improved work processes to deliver significant portions of the overall system configuration effort that are common across all automation projects:
Basic PCS 7 project configuration (hardware configuration, channel drivers, motors, PID, valves)
Basic graphic creation with dynamic objects (motors, valves)
Basic interlocks and logic  
 
Want to learn more about SIBASIC? Contact your regional process automation representative.

Join Siemens for SITRAIN USA Technical Training and receive a special offer!

Siemens invites you to attend SITRAIN USA technical training courses and receive a 50% discount. Purchase any Level 1 course and get a Level 2 or peripheral course at 50% off the published list price. Don’t miss your chance to sign up today; this offer ends April 30, 2009!
 
The SITRAIN technical training courses are system engineering and maintenance courses developed for PCS 7 and APACS+ customers.
 
Please call 770-625-5759 or visit the web site to register now. While online you can view the course schedules and descriptions.

 

Moin Shaikh
PAS Marketing Manager
moin.shaikh@siemens.com
(215) 646-7400 x2336