SIMATIC Plant Intelligence
Intelligent utilization of data to generate important information in real-time, improving the decision processes implemented by the company. This procedure lowers the plant costs, prevents scrap, better utilizes the production facilities and ultimately assures a higher business efficiency and effectiveness.
With the integration of Plant Intelligence applications from the machine up to the enterprise level, Siemens is offering a complete and scalable solution from one source. An advancement from an inexpensive, scalable entry-level system on the basis of the process visualization system SIMATIC WinCC all the way up to a comprehensive optimization solution on the MES level with SIMATIC IT is now seamlessly possible.
Plant Intelligence links the SCADA level with the MES level and in doing so provides a greater transparency in the production through an efficient acquisition, archiving, aggregation, analysis and distribution of production data
The linking and integration of SCADA and MES result in an enormous advantage for the customer. The customer can initially - just like before -expand his/her existing SIMATIC WinCC SCADA solution with Plant Intelligence. Additional support is provided by innovated options – such as the WinCC/DataMonitor with published reports and a WebCenter for the distribution of information - as well as completely new option packages - such as the WinCC/DowntimeMonitor for the detection and analysis of downtimes and the WinCC/ProcessMonitor as management information system for the optimization of the production. The user can extend the plant transparency with additional expansions on the MES or enterprise level. SIMATIC IT is capable of correlating and analyzing parameters such as key performance indicators across multiple plants; thus, production data such as work orders, genealogy and batch data can also be analyzed.
Fig. Plant Intelligence - Acquisition and Aggregation of data
Plant Intelligence with SIMATIC WinCC
In the basic system, WinCC provides a wide range of display and evaluation functions, for example statistical functions for message und measured value archives. The WinCC options for Plant Intelligence and for IT & Business Integration make available additional intelligent tools for optimizing production by means of Plant Intelligence.
WinCC/DataMonitor
WinCC/Connectivity Pack
WinCC/IndustrialDataBridge
WinCC/Plant Intelligence Options
In the context of developing version 6.2 the WinCC/DataMonitor has been entirely innovated and additionally two new options have been created for even more transparency in production and consistency concerning Plant-Intelligence applications.
WinCC/DowntimeMonitor
WinCC/ProcessMonitor-
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