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Industry Automation December 2012
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New automation standard for the mining industry
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Panels under the spotlight 6
Did you know …? 7
clear & brief 9
Modular automation solutions for biogas 2
Review - outlook 3
New automation standard for the mining industry 4
Bernmobil on the move with failsafe controller from Siemens 5
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Leipzig, Germany. January 29, 2013 will see the start of three key trade fairs for biogas, energy systems, the environment and sustainability in Leipzig: The enertec, the Biogas and the Terratec. From January 29 – 31, Siemens will be exhibiting its portfolio of modular solutions for automation, energy management and heat recove-ry at booth B19 in Hall 4.
The focus of the Siemens offering will be on the Simatic product spectrum with the scalable Simatic PCS 7 process control system, and on its wide-ranging process in-
strumentation and analytics portfolio for the biogas industry. Siemens will also be show-casing its SST-040 mini steam turbine desi-gned for the generation of electricity in the 60 – 300 kilowatt power range. The compa-ny will also be unveiling its Set BGA(Bio-Gas-Analysis) system based on the Ultra-mat 23 gas analyzer. Completing the Siemens trade fair offering will be a lecture on the topic of “Distributed power generati-on from waste heat“ as part of the Forum enertec in Hall 4 (January 29, 2013, 2 p.m.).
Siemens Biogaswww.siemens.com/biogas
Modular automation solutions for biogas
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Review - outlookSiemens Industryhttp://www.siemens.com/industry
Siemens Industry Automationwww.siemens.com/industryautomation
Siemens Drive Technologieswww.siemens.com/drivetechnologies
Siemens Customer Serviceshttp://www.siemens.com/customer-ser-vices
Nuremberg, Germany. As the SPS IPC Drives 2012 closes its doors, the end of another year is rapidly approa-ching. The time has come to look for-ward to what 2013 will bring – with two event announcements for next year’s diary.
At the Siemens press conference at the SPS IPC Drives, the PLM sofware, the new Simatic S7 controller and the up-graded version of the TIA portal formed the focus of Division CEO Anton S. Huber’s presentation. A transcript of his presentation, picture material and the di-gital press conference folder are availa-ble for downloading from the Siemens press site using the link http://www.siemens.com/press/sps2012.
Looking forward to the New Year, two events have already been announced for your 2013 diary:
On March 5, the Siemens Industry Auto-mation, Drive Technologies and Custo-mer Services Divisions will be holding their annual joint press conference in Nuremberg in the run-up to the Hanover Fair. More details will be available shortly.
The second date for your diary is at the beginning of April, when the traditional Siemens AG Hanover Fair press confe-rence will be held on the first day of the show, Monday April 8, 2013. Details of this event will be made available early in the New Year.
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New automation standard for the mining industry
functions, a diagnostic system for rapid troubleshooting and reduction of down-times as well as web-capable visualiza-tion of the process screen and face-plates. Also integrated: management information such as logging and statisti-cal functions, as well as historical archi-ving and interfaces to connect technolo-gical add-on modules such third party products.
Siemens Mining Industrywww.siemens.com/MinAS
Nuremberg, Germany. The Siemens Industry Automation Division has developed the Minerals Automation Standard to address the specific require ments in the mining industry. The standard uses the latest version 8.0 of the Simatic PCS 7 process con-trol system as system platform, ex-panded to include the specific auto-mation functions required in mining applications.
Demand for raw materials is growing worldwide. Mining companies are on the search for solutions which can be imple-mented far more quickly than before once investment approval has been granted. The focus is also on integrated solutions for improved productivity and efficiency. To address typical engineering and automation tasks in the mining in-dustry, Siemens has developed the Mine-rals Automation Standard. The standard aims at cutting plant downtimes and reducing operating and maintenance costs, while increasing plant availability and productivity. The new standard is ba-sed on the functionality of the Cemat system, which has already been in suc-cessful use for over 35 years in the ce-ment industry. Both systems make use of the open, flexibly scalable Simatic PCS 7 process control system. Using the latest version 8.0 as a system platform, the in-dustry-specific software packages of the Minerals Automation Standard are tailo-red to the specific tasks in the mining in-dustry in terms of their operating philoso-phy and their diagnostic, alarm and locking concept.
When installing the Minerals Automation Standard software packages, the mining industry functionality is integrated into
the Simatic PCS 7 system structure. This encompasses engineering components with special module libraries tailored to the needs of the mining industry, as well as automation components for control/closed-loop control, communication and also operation and monitoring. The ope-ration and monitoring components inclu-de amongst others redundancy and ar-chiving functions, a library for all control system objects with information, diagnos-tic and multimedia dialogs, an messaging system with industry-specific service
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Bern, Switzerland. The City of Bern has a new tram depot fitted with a fail-safe controller from the Siemens In-dustry Automation Division. A Simatic S7-315 F monitors the contact lines and ensures that they are reliably switched off.
A failsafe Simatic S7-315 F controller from Siemens installed in the new tram depot in Bern has replaced the existing 30-year old system using dated open-air circuit breaker and earthing bar technolo-gy. The contact lines carry 600 volts and are switched by a failsafe Simatic S7-315F controller. Failsafe controllers are self-monitoring. If a lack of consistency is detected, they automatically switch to the safe mode. The system is operated using seven HMI MP 377 touch panels, and the distributed periphery is integrated via ET200 input/output modules.
To prevent excessive power consumption bringing Bern’s public transport system to a standstill, the contact lines are divided into six sectors. If power consumption in one sector exceeds admissible limits, it is automatically switched off. In a modern tram, up to 1000 amperes flow through the current collector, for instance when the air conditioning system is in operation. This is due to the fact that only a direct voltage of 600 volts is made available by the contact lines, causing correspondingly high levels of current to flow at high output. For histo-ric reasons, the Bernmobil trams travel using direct current at low voltage. This does away with the need for heavy trans-formers inside the vehicle and allows the motors to be simply actuated using resis-tance bridges.
Bernmobil is responsible for tram and bus services in the city of Bern. Since
1998, Bernmobil has been run as an in-dependent entity under public law. With five tram lines, three trolley bus lines and fourteen bus lines, the network moves 84 million passengers every year. Furrer+Frey, the solution partner awar-ded the contract to implement the new system, specializes in contact line construction for railways and tram lines.
Siemens Safety Integratedwww.siemens.com/safety
Siemens Simatic S7-300www.siemens.com/s7-300
Bernmobil on the move with failsafe controller from Siemens
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Panels under the spotlightNuremberg, Germany. Trophies co-ming thick and fast: the Siemens In-dustry Automation Division trailer for Simatic HMI(Human Machine Inter-face) Comfort Panels has been sho-wered with prestigious industrial film awards. The latest accolade to be con-ferred on the video is the “Golden Dolphin”, which was presented in Oc-tober at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards.
The film trailer featuring the Siemens operator panels clearly demonstrates that industrial products can be success-fully advertised using motion pictures. The prize-winning video graphically illus-trates the many benefits of Simatic HMI Comfort Panels, which offer a whole ran-ge of different functions designed to per-mit the control and monitoring of industri-al automation systems.
In October 2012, the trailer fought off competition from 665 other contenders
from 35 nations at the third Cannes Cor-porate Media & TV Awards to win the “Golden Dolphin” in the “Fairs and Shows, Events and Meeting Openers” category. “Our aim was to make a video that would hold viewer interest and inclu-de the human element – all-important in a film about products at the man-machi-ne interface. One of the ways we achie-ved this was by featuring human hand gestures”, explains Reiner Tschaban, responsible Marketing Communications Manager in the Siemens Division.
This most recent trophy is the latest in a series of awards already conferred on the trailer: starting with the Certificate for Creative Excellence in the “Advertising/Marketing: Business-to-Business” cate-gory which was awarded at the US Inter-national Film and Video Festival 2012. This was followed by a place among the finalists at the 25th International Corpo-rate Film Festival in Vienna (Austria) in the “Trade fair films and events” catego-
ry. The film took first place at the Inter-national Film Festival in Houston/USA in the category “Marketing/Sales Industry”, making it the winner of the prestigious Gold Remi. As early as December 2011, the video was distinguished with the “Master of Excellence” accolade in the Sales Promotion and Product Presentati-on category at the 23rd Corporate Media 2011.
The video was commissioned by Sie-mens and produced by the film agency Maximilian Film GmbH in Munich.
Siemens Simatic HMI Comfort Panelshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1TwE15LxTg
Siemens Operator Devices – Comfort Panelshttp://www.siemens.com/comfort-panels
Video „Comfort Panel“www.siemens.com/comfort-panel-trailer
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Did you know …?
Did you know …?
…that Aurubis AG from Hamburg, Europe’s biggest copper cathode producer with an annual production vo-lume of a million tons, uses automation solutions from Siemens for its maintenance? At the world’s biggest copper recycling facility in Lünen, Aurubis uses Siemens technology to supply water to its boiler plant for copper recovery. The Siemens technology used permits rapid and economical implementation of modernization measures, increases plant availability and offers versatile scope for diagnosis.
During the process of capacity expansion, while opera-tions were still on-going, Aurubis implemented a series of modernization measures which included the water supply system. The nerve center of what is now a highly efficient process and plant data diagnostic system comprises two redundant Simatic IPC 847B rack PCs and the visualiza-tion system Simatic Win CC. Use of the WinCC option
… that the Esslingen-based company Eberspächer, a globally active partner to the automotive industry, uses Siemens NX software for its product development? The company uses the CAD system to fast-track its product development and pro-duction, and to ensure on-schedule delivery to its automotive customers.
Customer specifications and requirements using CAD sys-tems are what determine product development in the automo-tive industry. Eberspächer added the NX system from Sie-mens to its already existing systems for a big automotive OEM customer. This has afforded Eberspächer the greater flexibility it needs to get to grips with the growing diversity of different model variants, ever increasing volumes of data and greater complexity.
Alongside exhaust and vehicle heating systems which were the mainstay of the company’s supply range to vehicle ma-nufacturers back at the beginning of the 1930s, Eberspächer’s portfolio now also includes AC systems for buses as well as vehicle electronics and vehicle networking with automotive bus systems.
Siemens PLM Softwarewww.siemens.com/plm
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“Maintenance station” meant a reduction in the number of service callouts and allowed the quick and straightfor-ward execution of maintenance orders. In its plant in Lünen, Aurubis processes recycling raw materials and used copper to produce copper with a 99.99 percent degree of purity.
Siemens Industrial Maintenancewww.siemens.com/maintenance
source: all pictures Eberspächer
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Did you know …?…that the Italian company Duraldur SpA uses Femap software from Siemens PLM Software to simulate digital prototypes for the development and production of precisi-on components for combustion engines? By changing over to Femap, the time-consuming and cost-intensive physical testing which previously had to be performed has been significantly reduced. The new system also per-mits Duraldur to respond far more quickly to customer re-quests.
Using Femap, the medium-sized company is able to per-form detailed thermal and mechanical analysis of the data and calculations used in the development and production of new precision components. This allows Duraldur to sol-ve any problems occurring on the customer’s premises directly at the PC, saving time and costs. Leaders in the motoring industry for more than sixty years, Duraldur SpA (Duraldur) specializes in the production of cast and mol-ded pistons for all types of engines, as well as cylinders and winged liners for internal combustion engines.
Siemens Femapwww.siemens.com/plm/femap
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CPC Taiwan, the most important petrochemical company in the country migrates RMRI pilot plant to Simatic PCS 7 and Advanced Process Control(APC)http://youtu.be/ao-2tUuDw70
Current press releases from the Siemens Industry Automation Divison
On SPS IPC Drives 2012
Press releases from the Siemens Indus-try Automation Division on the SPS IPC Drives 2012
Siemens presents new generation of controllers for the medium to upper per-formance range
Engineering framework for automation and drive technology extended
Siemens presents its versatile weighing module for Simatic control S7-1200
Communication processor securely connects Simatic S7-1500 to Ethernet
Siemens presents modular range of safety relays
Siemens: Powerful load current supply expands Simatic S7-1500 portfolio
Siemens cabling system connects Sima-tic S7-1500 with sensors and actuators
Siemens adds Profibus module to new Simatic controller
Siemens expands Sirius portfolio with particularly compact motor starter
Ready-to-run industrial notebook for mobile engineering
Siemens expands Scada software into plant-wide information system
Siemens boosts performance of fanless, embedded industrial PCs for automation
Distributed IO extended for actuators, sensors and tough industrial environments
Distributed IO system with high channel density and low parts variance
http://www.siemens.com/press/sps2012
Pressebereich der Siemens-Division Industry Automation http://www.siemens.com/presse/industryautomation/presseinformationen
clear & brief
Siemens and Bentley Systems Initiate Strategic Collaboration to Unify Product and Production Lifecycles with Factory Infrastructure Lifecycleshttp://www.siemens.com/press/industryautomation/pressreleases
Siemens to acquire leading provider of mechatronic simulation: Boost from LMS International will make industry cu-stomers even fasterhttp://www.siemens.com/press/industryautomation/pressreleases
Siemens to focus its water business on automation technology in the futurehttp://www.siemens.com/press/industryautomation/pressreleases
The new video entitled “Efficient configuration with CAD/CAE data“ illustrates how online functions from Siemens can substantially simplify control cabinet engi-neering.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l24yrzEbDQ&hd=1x
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The Siemens Industry Sector (Erlangen, Germany) is the world’s leading supplier of innovative and environmentally friendly products and solutions for industrial custo-mers. With end-to-end automation techno-logy and industrial software, solid vertical-market expertise, and technology-based services, the Sector enhances its custo-mers’ productivity, efficiency, and flexibility. With a global workforce of more than 100,000 employees, the Industry Sector comprises the Divisions Industry Automati-on, Drive Technologies and Customer Ser-vices as well as the Business Unit Metals Technologies. For more information, visit http://www.siemens.com/industry
The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany) supports the entire value chain of its industrial cu-stomers – from product design to produc-tion and services – with an unmatched combination of automation technology, in-dustrial control technology, and industrial software. With its software solutions, the Division can shorten the time-to-market of new products by up to 50 percent. Industry Automation comprises five Business Units: Industrial Automation Systems, Control Components and Systems Engineering, Sensors and Communication, Siemens PLM Software, and Water Technologies. For more information, visit www.siemens.com/industryautomation
Press releases from Siemens- Division Industry Automationhttp://www.siemens.com/press/industry-automation/pressreleases
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