SIMATIC Automation Designer
Recognizing
and exploiting trends …
Responding quickly and flexibly to current market requirements is of crucial
importance to your corporate success. To enable you to do this, Siemens is
continuously driving progress in automation. Our innovations are aimed at
boosting your productivity. In this context, one topic is increasingly occupying
center stage: the Digital Factory. The concept of the Digital Factory is as
simple as it is inspired: A detailed image of the factory is created right back
at the planning stage. Product development, production planning and production
design are already optimized in the Digital Factory before commissioning.
Production is continuously monitored and improved with virtual instruments even
during live operations. The potential for saving time and costs increases with
future-oriented concepts: Digital Engineering.
…and implementing them
SIMATIC Automation Designer creates the prerequisites for Digital Engineering
within the scope of the Digital Factory – from transfer of the planning phase
data, through configuring of the automation solution, right up to use during
live operations. The seamless transition from the Digital Factory to the actual
plant through the use of a holistic engineering approach sets new standards in
the automation of mechanical equipment manufacture and plant construction.
Functionality
SIMATIC Automation Designer
The
reusable and parameterizable templates of a resource created with different
software tools are read into SIMATIC Automation Designer. These templates (e.g.
parts lists, schematics, PLC programs, HMI visualization etc.) are combined into
resources in libraries. Reading in of the original CAD diagram of the plant is
an essential component of project navigation and configuring. During
configuring, the graphical representations of resources in the CAD diagram are
combined with the relevant templates for resources from the library. Intelligent
change management supports collaboration between mechanical design and
electrical engineering. This is then followed by the actual configuring of the
automation solution (e.g. PLC areas, operating mode groups, emergency stop
circuits etc.). Using this information, the project is then generated
automatically for all automation components.
