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SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station
More productivity with Totally Integrated Automation
Integrated plant and cross-system maintenance
Plant Asset Management is only truly productive if mainte- nance staff can view diagnostic information relating to the en- tire process chain. In practice, this means that the same main- tenance team that is responsible for the actual process can support inbound and outbound processes such as logistics, bottling and packaging plants without having to build up a great deal of additional expertise. If the process control sys- tem and the controllers of the upstream and downstream sys- tems originate from different vendors, different alarm sys- tems can cause considerable additional expense.
If a plant is automated with SIMATIC PCS 7, therefore it is wor- thwhile for the plant operators to select machines and sys- tems that are automated with SIMATIC and visualized with SIMATIC WinCC for their inbound and outbound processes, as then they can exploit all the advantages of Totally Integrated Automation.
If machines or systems for inbound/outbound processes are operated and monitored by means of SIMATIC WinCC, then the SIMATIC Maintenance Station presents itself as an option to SIMATIC WinCC for
The integrated functionality of Totally Integrated Automation also makes it possible, using the SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station, to monitor the packaging or bottling line by means of a client. Display, logic, and message management are identi- cal. The uniform look and feel saves on overhead and genera- tes a high degree of acceptance within the maintenance team. The SIMATIC Maintenance Station for SIMATIC PCS 7 and SIMATIC WinCC makes a significant contribution to incre- asing maintenance productivity and thus to increasing the availability of the overall plant.
Optimizing instead of repairing
The task of maintenance is not only to avoid unscheduled pro- duction downtimes, but also to optimize the running of the plant. Optimization must be based on analysis of traceable processes. The Maintenance Station offers the basic data set for integrated analysis of all weak points. This is not unusual in a process control system. However, in inbound and out- bound processes diagnostics are often restricted to signaling a fault and then forgetting about it as soon as it has been re- paired. With Totally Integrated Automation, the Maintenance Station becomes the basis for Total Productive Maintenance.
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SIMATIC Maintenance Station: Collecting diagnostic information from the entire process chain centrally – even via the Web
Suitable protective measures (among others
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