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ACHEMA 2012ACHEMA 2012

Chemicals

Main Automation Vendor (MAV) and lifecycle concepts - Booth position 1

For the smooth realization of international projects, Siemens is an experienced partner to support customers in the chemical industry, either as Main Automation Vendor (MAV) or Main Electrical Vendor (MEV). The solutions cover the fundamental technology from the design and engineering stages to maintenance as well as the delivery of a safe, reliable and low-maintenance automation platform with unified equipment (unique look & feel).

A MAV concept as shown at ACHEMA minimizes coordination through one single point of contact and reduces interfaces between different vendors. That leads to simplification in plant and project management, less expenditure of time, and reduced spare parts inventory and training efforts. Finally, significant cost-savings and greater investment protection over the entire plant lifecycle can be achieved.


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Laboratory automation in process development and research processes - Booth position 3

With Siemens laboratory solutions research and development processes in the beginning of the process and plant lifecycle can be optimized as regulatory requirements are met more easily, and the time-to-market will be shortened through greater efficiency in the laboratory. They also offer greater flexibility in the development of processes as well as easier up-scaling from engineering through pilot plants up to production scale.

SIMATIC PCS 7 LAB Collection - a tailor-made SIMATIC PCS 7 solution for laboratory automation - improves efficiency, quality and safety of development processes. It facilitates complete and seamless information acquisition and application control, and is demonstrated at ACHEMA within a typical lab application. The system is supplemented by the Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), a library to capture and structure lots of experimental data.


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Ultrapure Water - Booth position 2

Since 1984 Siemens develop, produce and sell ultra pure water systems, reverse osmosis equipment, electro-deionization systems from our facility in Barsbüttel close to Hamburg.

The experience Siemens has gained in over 30 years in the industry makes us an indispensable partner when it comes to turning drinking water into pure and ultra pure water.

Reliability, quality and customer contact are important to us, which is why you will find our network of after-sales service distributed across Germany and our offices and representatives in many other countries.


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Plant and process performance - Booth position 16

This ACHEMA solution covers the trends of the chemicals industry, in particular plant and process safety and operational effectiveness.

Key is the automation system SIMATIC PCS 7 including integrated safety technology. Functional safety up to SIL 3 is complied with SIMOCODE pro for safety shutdown of motors using PROFIBUS DP. Another application for enhancing safety in emergency situations is Partial Stroke Test, integrated within the process control system itself and for SIPART PS2 valve positioner.

For higher process efficiency and increased availability, Siemens demonstrates fault-tolerant communication (ring redundancy) right down to field devices, such as SITRANS P and SITRANS PSII linked by Foundation Fieldbus H1. And finally, the solution is finished by integrated "Lean APC" (Advanced Process Control) functions for plant optimization.


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Flexible production management - Booth position 19

Globalization demands the utmost flexibility from the chemical industry as customers require tailor-made products and fast responsiveness to their needs. A short time-to-market, production changes and reliable delivery can only work effectively with flexible production methods.

At ACHEMA Siemens demonstrates a flexible, easy mixing solution for small and medium plants with simple batch processes, i.e. no complex recipe structure. The APF (advanced process functions) onboard features of SIMATIC PCS 7 help customers with their material management, storage and archiving for mixing processes. This solution optimizes production due to transparency in storage locations and materials, and it supports seamless documentation as all relevant data is recorded and reported.


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Modern plant control rooms. operating and visualization concepts (HMI+) - Booth position 44

HMIplus supports process control of industrial production processes by user-oriented process visualization features.

The background to this concept is the constantly increasingly complexity of the processes to be monitored and the working environment, for instance a heterogeneous system environment in control rooms from the perspective of the operators.

The use of modern plant control centers and operator control concepts can support and relieve operators in the execution of their tasks by means of a powerful human machine interface.

At Achema Siemens presents a HMIplus concept, based on the SIMATIC PCS 7 automation system showing that it should be considered right from the start when planning process plants and designing plant control rooms. HMI graphics for better attention improves the overall efficiency.


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Simulation for virtual commissioning and training - Booth position 7

SIMIT is a powerful, scalable platform for simulating and testing automation projects, shown at ACHEMA in the field of plant design.

SIMIT enables a higher project/software quality due to early testing. Thanks to reduced engineering errors, commissioning efforts decrease significantly as well as project duration, time-to-production and costs.

Additionally SIMIT enables to build-up training schemes. Improved operators skills and plant knowledge enable to reach faster plant operation excellence. It supports virtual commissioning through a comprehensive set of features, covering simulation of controllers (hardware/software), signals, devices (actuators and sensors), communication busses, as well as processes. Testing becomes independent from real components availability and avoids possible damages on equipment. Malfunctions and critical situation can also be simulated in order to increase system reliability.


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Bio-based solutions - Booth position 13

The biofuels industry - be it bioethanol, biogas, biodiesel, or biomass - requires efficient and safe solutions and comprehensive services throughout the entire plant lifecycle. Siemens offers plant-wide, integrated automation and energy management solutions especially at ACHEMA that allow rapid commissioning and production start as well as the highest plant and process performance - thus helping to reduce risks and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Part of the integrated range of products and systems is the unique automation concept (TIA/TIP) based upon the modular, scalable DCS/SCADA solutions combined with sensor systems and drives technologies. They provide value to Biofuels production, i.e. easy access to data and process modifications for increasing transparency within the plant.


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Best-in-class products for the chemical industry - Booth position 17

Increase your process efficiency with the comprehensive process instrumentation portfolio for the chemical industry. For example: the pressure transmitter SITRANS P500 for fast and precise measurement results. Furthermore the seamless integration of process instrumentation devices into the process control system SIMATIC PCS 7 will be showcased. With the new integrated function block on SITRANS FM MAG6000 even more process and diagnostic information is available and operation is optimized via the faceplate shown in SIMATIC PCS 7.


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