Siemens Automation and Drives: Focused Automotive Competence with Totally Integrated Automation
Worldwide competence in
automotive manufacturers and
suppliers.
Siemens Automation and Drives supplies
tailor-made automation solutions for the
automobile and automotive suppliers'
industry.
Specialists from Siemens Automation
and Drives, the technological leader,
oversee the whole implementation process
of a system. The scope of services offered
range from the analysis phase to the
creation of individual concepts, software
tools, programmings and hardware
configurations to implementation.
Almost all well-known manufacturers
worldwide are on the company's customer
list and include body shop, final assembly,
paint shop, conveyor technology and
logistics. Siemens Automation and Drives
will also take over the role of general
project management on request.
The technical basis: Totally
Integrated Automation (TIA)
In close cooperation with its automotive
customers, automation concepts from
Siemens Automation and Drives are
developed with innovative and tested
products and systems based on Siemens
Totally Integrated Automation (TIA)
system.
Siemens is the only one-stop provider
that offers a homogeneous range of
products and systems which make a major
contribution to optimising the production,
process and system processes. Totally
Integrated Automation (TIA) is based
on the Siemens philosophy of developing
services and application know-how
continuously and with future orientation.
Benefits to users include: low engineering
effort in the creation of automation
solutions, low life cycle costs in the
operation of systems and a considerable
reduction in the time-to-market as well as
a noticeable increase in the productivity
and a higher investment security
Complete product range from the field to the office level
The basis of the automation architecture
is the programmable logic controllers
of the Simatic series S7-300 and S7-400
that allows the efficient installation of
automation solutions. Homogeneous
solutions ranging from the individual
sensor in the field to the MES software
range, to the link to the office environment
can be configured without breaks in the
system.
The extensive product range of control
and drive technology, sensors, peripheral
devices and the complete product
range of the industrial communication
platforms are used for the transmission
of information across cells, systems and
factories. For this, Siemens relies on the
Profinet communications standard.
Profinet, the open, manufacturer-neutral
Industrial Ethernet standard of
the Profibus user organisation meets the
requirements of the automotive industry
for real time capability, integration of
distributed field devices, industrially
compatible installation technology etc
and therefore guarantees a homogeneous
communication from the office
environment to the field.
The standard is ideally suited to both
automation tasks and high performance
motion control applications as they occur
in the powertrain.
WLAN communication by leak wave
conductor which ensures reliable data
transmission with defined propagation
via radio is also offered by the Siemens
communications specialists.
Safety integrated with Profinet
Previously, safety-orientated PLC solutions
required two different controllers and
an additional failsafe bus in a distributed
structure. The new solution with Simatic
Safety Integrated only requires a single
controller with uniform engineering
and only one standard bus (Profibus
or Profinet) with the Profisafe profile
for standard and safety-orientated
communication.
This integration of the safety technology
in the standard automation reduces
interfaces and costs. The more efficient
system structure creates smaller and
clearer switch cabinets. The creation of
the standard and safety program with
familiar S7 software minimises training
expenses and efficient diagnostic functions
help to further reduce cost-intensive
downtimes. Conclusion: Profinet is
becoming a universally applicable
bus system for standard and safetyorientated
communication, and enables
horizontal and vertical homogeneity from
management to the field level.
One contact for all - Corporate
Account Managers
With the worldwide Corporate Account
concept, the customer has a central contact
who makes all the necessary connections,
works out integrated solutions and
coordinates their implementation. He is the
central contact within the different Siemens
departments, the machine or system
manufacturer's or system integrator's.
The customer therefore has less
coordination work, faster implementation
and more system availability.
With 12 Corporate Account managers
who work as local and competent partners
in the interests of their customers'
success, Siemens is right at the heart of the
automotive industry on all continents.
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