Why the Key to a Safe Process Control Migration Might be Found in Cyberspace...

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“Digitalization is becoming the industry’s most important lever when it comes to addressing challenges such as growing competitive pressure and the continuous further development of regulations, markets and technologies,” explains the Head of the Process Automation Division Vincent Masztalerz. He adds: “The use of software tools allows us to know the outcome of the project before a single part of it has actually been constructed”.

A program can be simulated in advance, enabling studies based on the impact assessment to be integrated into the planning process, potential risks to be recognized and a comprehensive overview to be obtained. The digitalization of industry is based on integrated software products and solutions which digitalize plants, guaranteeing a trouble-free, continuous exchange of data from the plant design stage through installation, operation and modernization to engineering and cloud-based services.

Digital Plant Up-Close: The Virtual Twin...

This allows use of the virtual twin for the simulation and optimization of commissioning, operation and maintenance. Digitalization is enabled by a cohesive engineering concept. This cuts down sources of error due to fewer interfaces between the different facilities, increases the quality of all engineering steps and shortens the time to market by enabling simultaneous work on different operating processes. In this way, tasks relating to process engineering, electrical planning and automation technology can be performed simultaneously.

Process Control System

Version Upgrade of a Field-Proven Control System

Digitalization using the Siemens approach is based on continuous interaction between the Simatic PCS 7 process control system and the software tool Simit, based on Comos, which was developed to enable the design and integrated lifecycle management of plants. Thanks to the significant investment and acquisitions made by Siemens in the software business, Simatic PCS 7 provides the ideal platform for utilization of the new digitalization technologies.

...and its Many Benefits

The connection between integrated engineering and operation allows to support customers on the way towards the industry of the future. By merging the worlds of planning and operation, global management of industrial plants is possible over their entire life cycle. The continuous and consistent updating of data enables a virtual twin to be used which is equivalent to the physical plant in every respect. AGK

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