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It all starts from your idea.
And a full palette of possibilities.
AUTOMATION
IDEAS
Motion Control
Visualization
Industrial PC
Logic Control
Manufacturing
Execution Systems
Distributed I/O
Drives
Networks
Faster configuration, less interfaces, open standards – with PC-based Auto-
mation, a wide range of automation solutions can be integrated on a common,
PC-based platform. Whether you want open-loop control, closed-loop control,
motion control, operator control and process visualization, communication or
visualization: With PC-based Automation you can select from a large palette of
components to implement your automation ideas perfectly.
Open to your ideas
It is your choice how and with what components you create your automation
solution. All components interact perfectly and support integrated solutions
from the manufacturing execution system down to the field level. You benefit
from Totally Integrated Automation® and from the rapid increase in the per-
formance of PCs and the resulting innovations. The advantages for you are
faster engineering, shorter development times, greater flexibility, and higher
investment security.
And so that you achieve your objectives more quickly, we offer comprehensive
support – from the idea through to its implementation. Even when you want
third-party products to be integrated, you can come to Siemens for individual
solutions from a single source.
Realize your dreams.
With PC-based Automation.
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Discover completely new solutions.
PC-based Automation for your industry.
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SOLUTIONS
If you want to stay ahead of the competition, then economical, future-oriented
solutions are more important than ever. PC-based Automation offers a wide
selection of possibilities so that you can find the right mix of costs and benefits
for your automation solution.
Industry know-how included
Whether in the automotive industry, machine construction, wood machining,
textiles, plastics, packaging, semiconductors or food and beverage industry:
PC-based Automation is successfully operating in many different sectors. One
of the reasons for this is that solutions from a single source reduce the
engineering outlay for our customers, allowing them to respond much more
quickly to changing market requirements. Satisfied customers throughout
the world have already experienced the benefits of PC-based Automation at
first hand.
The automotive industry
Openness, efficiency, speed: PC-based Automation controls conveyors, air
intake and extraction systems, heating, exhaust-gas purifiers and crash test
systems. A wide variety of technologies are accurately coordinated via the
PC – making the central control cabinet unnecessary.
Wood machining
In chip board production or finished components for house building: PC-based
Automation ensures quality and an extremely high throughput. For example,
due to the fact that control processes can be generated for production on a
single platform from CAD drawings.
Food and beverage
A wide range of products, batch changeovers and optimized control: With
PC-based Automation, breweries can manage all beer types on a single
platform totally integrated – and store unlimited information on the industrial
PC hardware.
Machine construction
Using existing know-how: in numerous machine construction systems, such as
grinding plants for example, subordinate PLCs are also implemented in addition
to PC-based Automation. The equipment is configured, however, system-wide
with SIMATIC STEP 7
®
.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts: Simply outline your objectives and
then select the relevant components from our comprehensive PC-based
Automation product portfolio. Thanks to SIMATIC
®
and Totally Integrated
Automation
®
(TIA) you can be confident that with regard to uniform data and
engineering system-wide, you will always be on the safe side.
Logic control with SIMATIC WinAC
For open and closed-loop control tasks, process optimization and measured
value analysis: The Windows Automation Center WinAC offers scalable solu-
tions from the Slot PLC to the Software PLC, including real time and deter-
ministic features as well as for the embedded field. Suitable option packages
are also available for the integration of technology functions.
Industrial PCs for every requirement
Economy, performance, reliability. Whether you choose a SIMATIC Box PC, Rack
PC, Panel PC or the modular SICOMP system – our industrial PCs form the ideal
basis of your PC-based Automation solution.
Utilize our comprehensive product
spectrum.
PC-based Automation – an overview.
PRODUCTS
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Visualization: See it all at a glance
For operation, plant display, alarm management, measured-value archiving
and recipe management: With ProTool/Pro and WinCC your most important
data are soon on view. And the visualization function executes in parallel with
the control functions on the same PC.
Keep movement under control with motion control
For coupled axes, winder controls and electronic cams – with Easy Motion
Control or SIMOTION, complex technology functions through to digital drives
can be implemented quickly and easily.
Networks: Communication over all levels
With the machine level and IT world on a single platform: SIMATIC NET sup-
ports communication between PC-based Automation and higher-level manage-
ment systems as well as with the I/O at the field level by means of Industrial
Ethernet and PROFIBUS.
Powerful drive solutions: Drives
With a MICROMASTER standard drive or SIMODRIVE High Dynamic Drive:
In PC-based Automation, it can all be seamlessly integrated using the engineer-
ing tool Drive ES – from configuring through to diagnostics.
Distributed I/O: Intelligence on-site
With PROFIBUS, PC-based Automation connects to the open world of the field-
bus level – for fast configuration and easy start-up. And the SIMATIC ET 200
product range provides a complete spectrum of block I/O, modular I/O and
IP65 I/O.
Integration right down the line: Manufacturing execution systems
Maintenance for complete production areas, archiving data, creating statistics
– tasks that are ideal for implementation on the PC. With SIMATIC IT solutions,
processes that span the corporation can be optimized and the manufacture of
products can be implemented with greater flexibility.
Fax response to
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Siemens AG
Automation & Drives
P.O. Box 48 48, D-90327 Nuremberg
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