Increased productivity through holistic plant management

COMOS

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Complex requirements in a dynamic world economy

The rising cost and time pressure, resulting from international compe­

tition, requires consistent data management.

Today, plant engineers and owner opera­tors are faced by enormous challenges: increasing international competition demands improvements in both produc­tivity and quality. The resulting cost and time pressure renders the parallelization of various workflows indispensable. To complicate matters further, the growing number of strict legal regulations con­cerning safety and environmental protec­tion standards needs to be taken into account as well. On the other hand, cus­tomers expect custom­tailored high­qual­ity products at attractive prices while the time­to­market is shortening.

Decentralized, worldwide production facilities require central monitoring and control so that decisions can be made and communicated within minutes. From the market and enterprise viewpoint, these challenges require plant operators and plant construction companies to adopt solutions that enable them to real­ize their potential and address their needs across multiple industries and tar­get groups. The success factors for this are: continuous innovation and consis­tent data management.

COMOS – The future of asset management

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From Integrated Engineering to Integrated Operations COMOS uniquely enables you to integrate your project assets across the complete life­cycle of an industrial plant and its equip­ment. Our unified COMOS data platform provides plant engineers, construction companies and operators with a seamless information flow of project­relevant data across all corporate levels and project stages. We are the only software vendor in the world, who is able to deliver a univer­sal, globally integrated software solution. Your benefits: more efficient workflows, higher productivity and increased quality; all this through the optimal interaction of engineering and operations domains.

Continuing innovation We developed COMOS software on the basis of many years of experience meeting the needs of diverse industries – successful years during which we continuously acquired multiple competencies and fed these lessons learned into our software, while focusing our attention on meeting our customers‘ real­world requirements. This background ensures that COMOS is today, and will in the future continue to reflect leading edge technology. In addi­tion, COMOS is provided through Siemens and embedded in it organizationally as an independent business segment within the Industrial Automation Systems business unit. With COMOS, separate worlds of plant engineering and automation are being merged for the first time. Our integrated end­to­end solution enables both the pro­cess and manufacturing industries to opti­mize project workflows and launch new products faster.

COMOS is the only software that maps all lifecycle phases of an industrial plant on a common database.

Due to know­how and many years of experience, COMOS is the most innovative software for plant management.

Our claim “Integrated Intelligence“

Integrated because … … COMOS is the only solution in the marketplace that seamlessly bridges the gap between inte-grated engineering and integrat-ed operations, from the design stage through to the operational phase.

Intelligence because … ... COMOS is the only software concept that provides intelligent and consistent data management on a worldwide basis. Once pa-rameters have been assigned to an object, they are available to all stakeholders everywhere, all the time.

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Growth prospects through innovation and investment protection

Innovation and investment protection are two mainstays of corporate management and planning that reduce operating expense and increase operational effi­ciency. We are addressing these goals so that you can enhance your competi­tiveness and growth while augmenting your return on investment. COMOS is the only software solution worldwide that

Our goal: continuous innovation and reliable investment protection

for optimum competitiveness.

seamlessly maps the entire lifecycle of an industrial plant and equipment on a sin­gle database. You will establish a compre­hensive, globally integrable software solution that substantially lowers your engineering, operating and moderniza­tion costs.

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Reliability in all disciplines COMOS offers intelligent solutions and services well adapted to your business processes and industry­specific work­flows. Our comprehensive, innovative solution portfolio can be employed in each lifecycle phase, from design to con­struction to commissioning and opera­tion to maintenance and revamping. And just as importantly, you can acquire all of these solutions from a single vendor.

We have regional companies and branch offices around the globe. Regardless where your facility is located, we have staff available to support you during all stages of your project.

We will discuss your initial situation in a personal dialogue and develop a custom­tailored solution concept.

Innovation based on experience Our research and development activities are geared for offering efficient, sophisti­cated solution approaches. We are able to draw on many years of global experience in asset management in a wide variety of

industries. Our development teams lever­age proven expertise to convert market demands into novel, customer­oriented solutions – for your benefit. System com­patibility is our top priority when devising new solutions for smoothly integrating our software into your existing IT landscape.

Revolution in asset management Siemens is the only vendor who can imple­ment holistic asset management across a complete industrial plant and equipment lifecycle using a unified data platform. We view your asset in a function­oriented manner rather than by separate technical disciplines.

We are now complementing the fully integrated engineering processes that we have supported for many years with fully integrated operations and maintenance workflows.

Holistic plant management through­out the entire lifecycle of an indus­trial plant or machine on a common database.

COMOS – deployed worldwide in a multitude of industries

Energy & Power

Discrete Manufacturing

Oil & Gas

Process Industries

Pharmaceutical

Chemical

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COMOS allows you to work in a virtual office based on complete

data consistency across the entire plant lifecycle.

Establishment of a digital plant by connecting virtual and real world.

Common standards and freely configu­rable interfaces make for an open archi­tecture, enabling smooth collaboration among different systems. This bridges the gap between mere software integra­tion and genuine interoperability.

COMOS maps the entire lifecycle of an industrial plant or equipment on a single database and thus supports the optimum interplay of all disciplines in each lifecycle phase. This results in a virtual office, where all stakeholders can access up­to­date, complete and consistent data at all times, ensuring worldwide intercommu­nication, joint decision­making, as well as fast and targeted incident response.

Interlinking the virtual and physical worlds: The digital plant Optimizing production processes is increasingly handled through the digital plant, which helps enhance productivity and gain competitive advantage.

In order to achieve these results, you need to digitally mirror the status of your hardware and software solutions in an engineering system. Within this image, you can e. g. plan maintenance and over­haul activities for subsequent execution in the real plant.

Conversely, any changes made to the real plant can be easily transferred to the virtual asset data inventory. This inter­linkage of the digital and physical plant opens up new dimensions in mechanical and plant engineering as well as design.

Benefit from our comprehensive, innovative software solution and service portfolio

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Technological edge through object orientation Future­proof asset management requires you to view your plant in a function­ori­ented manner rather than by separate technical disciplines. Our object­oriented solution is based on a complete, end­to­end data flow.

Object orientation enables you to holisti­cally describe a component or object and provide each of the disciplines that work on your plant project with a dedicated component view of the overall project.

Benefit object orientation: many single aspects amount to an always up­to­date overall picture.

The graphical and alphanumerical repre­sentations within the database constitute an entity – the object. This guarantees that all requisite data and properties of a specific object will be available, in up­to­date form, to all entitled users anywhere and anytime they are needed.

An unrestricted flow of information is ensured throughout the lifecycle of plant or equipment – from the design stage to operations and extensions to decommis­sioning. This approach facilitates substan­tial quality improvements that significantly contribute to workflow optimization.

Integrated collaboration of all technical disciplines throughout the asset lifecycle

COMOS enables you to realize your plant‘s full potential through object orientation

- Integrated, consistent plant and equipment engineering

- Engineering process optimization

- Reduction of process lead times

- Realization of an efficient asset management strategy

- Flexible application options in all disciplines and lifecycle phases of your plant project

- Shorter development cycles for new products and processes

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Transparency by consistent data management

COMOS transcends the boundaries be ­tween all disciplines involved in a plant project by facilitating a seamless flow of information without data loss during handover between various project life­cycle phases. This approach enables you to manage your project on an end­to­end basis and deliver plant documentation so that all relevant data and information items are available in up­to­date form wherever they are needed around the

clock. You can even execute cross­site projects easily. COMOS creates the pre­requisites for an efficient workflow and facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration on a shared data platform across all tech­nical departments of an enterprise. In short, it will enhance your productivity, reliability and overall business effective­ness.

Plant engineering spanning different sites and countries on a shared database without any loss of data

COMOS enables a seamless informa­tion flow, ensuring continuous

transparency.

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Modular structure for customized solutions COMOS is modularly structured on a com­mon database, allowing the different applications to be combined according to individual needs.

Flexible adaptation to all systems COMOS software‘s open system architec­ture and support for interdisciplinary workflows are perfectly geared for today‘s customer requirements and international market trends: COMOS can be quickly and easily adapted to your individual needs; its intelligent interface technology facili­tates smooth integration into legacy sys­tem environments.

By means of bidirectional data exchange with third­party applications, stand­alone solutions are networked and incorporated into a single system. COMOS merges the previously separate data silos of process, mechanical, electrical and control engi­neering into a unified asset data struc­ture. This results in standardized work­

flows, reducing reconciliation effort and improving overall quality.

COMOS also supports multilingual user interfaces in a wide variety of languages, thereby simplifying cross­site and inter­cultural communication for global corpo­rations. COMOS software‘s high level of scalability lends itself to constant adjust­ment to changing requirements and increasingly complex product lifecycles.

How you benefit from a consistent database

- Interdisciplinary collaboration across all corporate levels

- Convenient operation and easy handling of large volumes of data

- Smooth integration into existing IT landscapes

- End-to-end data management and consistently up-to-date asset documentation

- Cross-site workflows

- Interoperability through open system architecture

- Reduced time to market

Simple integration of COMOS into third­party system landscapes.

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Software solution for integrated plant management

COMOS is the only holistic and object­ori­ented software solution that maps the full lifecycle of today‘s plants or equip­ments. Its interdependent software solutions cover all stages from process design to basic and detail engineering to operations and modernization – and they can be deployed as a complete solution and in stand­alone mode. The central data platform in COMOS supplies consis­tent and transparent data linked to indi­vidual objects.

The open COMOS architecture facilitates the integration of external data and systems.

An accurate, transparent and time­saving data flow between the engineering and operational worlds is ensured, raising asset management to an entirely new level.

COMOS: the holistic software solution throughout the entire

plant lifecycle.

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Our unique solution concept – From Integrated Engineering to Integrated Operations Siemens provides numerous integrable COMOS solutions to facilitate the work steps required for successfully planning and operating a plant or equipment.

The COMOS Platform solution provides the basis for effective overall data man­agement. The data of all applications and domains is stored centrally and in object­oriented form on the COMOS database, providing maximum consistency. Changes made in one application are immediately available in all other applica­tions, so COMOS requires no internal interfaces. Connection to third­party sys­tems is enabled by an open system archi­tecture featuring multiple automated interfaces. As a result, each project stake­holder is offered optimum transparency and interoperability – both during engi­neering and operations.

The COMOS Process solution combines applications for creating process data and all aspects of process engineering. Even at the early design stage, plant layout data can be used to generate process flow diagrams, which are then repre­sented in more detail in the piping and instrumentation diagram.

COMOS Process supports quality­con­trolled pipe engineering and pipe spec management conforming to international industry standards. Process data conver­sion on the geometry level in the form of isometrics and 3D images can be easily derived from the given data.

The solution COMOS Automation sup­ports electrical engineering for plant and equipment through to full automation covering all processes relevant to electri­cal, instrumentation and control engi­neering by specialized solutions. Among other things, logical inter­object links and automated sequences are graphically mapped in diagrams and hydraulic, as well as pneumatic, workflow schemes are created on the basis of existing data.

COMOS Operations is comprised of solu­tions for efficient asset management. All data from the engineering phase can be reused in the operational phase. Avail­able applications include solutions both for maintenance during ongoing opera­tions and overhaul during shutdown. Via special user interfaces, the measures ini­tiated in the field or workshop can be directly reported.

From Integrated Engineering ...

... to

Integrated

Operations

Interlocking engineering and operations

We offer software solutions for all lifecycle phases of the plant management.

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“Our most treasured asset – the trust of our customers”

In developing our products, we work closely with our customers, taking on board all of their input, questions, chal­lenges, praise and criticism, to gain valu­able hints for constantly fine­tuning our work. Our clients help us to design opti­mum solutions tailored to their particular needs. Customers around the globe trust

our concepts for professional asset management. The following section indi­cates how clients from different indus­tries have successfully deployed COMOS software within their respective enterprises.

Customer input is very valuable for the further development of our

products.

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Chemical “Wacker’s engineering tool philosophy is characterized by central data maintenance and decentralized usage by our suppliers. Since the introduction of the COMOS integrated engineering solution, this concept has been optimally supported. In addition to enhanced up­to­dateness of the documentation and higher data security, savings concerning data exchange and interfaces have become possible. Moreover, we identified further saving potential for the future.” Klaus Kraml, Senior Manager, CAx­Systems & Applications,

Engineering Services, Wacker Chemie AG, Burghausen, Germany

Oil and Gas “COMOS won the contract against fourteen competitors. Their systems offered optimum functionality for the requirements of Gaz de France Norge.” Terje Overvik, Managing Director, Gaz de France Norge, Norway

“The systems will essentially contribute to achieving our goals in the field of integrated operations.” Kjell Ola Jørgensen, Operations Manager, Gaz de France Norge,

Norway

Energy & Power “The service concept of COMOS offers us competent and efficient support for the adaptation of our data model. This enables us to promptly implement indi­vidual proposals or even overall solutions ourselves or commission their speedy implementation.” Ralf Bergemann, CAE/CAD Coordinator, Vattenfall Europe

PowerConsult GmbH

Discrete Manufacturing “The introduction of the new engineering tool SIMATIC Automation Designer has enabled quality improvements even at the level of standards. When filling Automation Designer with the ‘Integra’ standard, numerous optimizations in the interplay of the standard’s hardware and software could be implemented. Also, many existing variants were scrutinized and their number reduced. Variants and alternatives do sometimes make sense – at other times they are mere cost drivers. Our strategy today is to create any item of engineering information only once and to store it in a central location. And any requisite process step will enrich the existing data repository.“ Jürgen Kübler, Manager Controls Technology, Daimler AG

Discrete Manufacturing Process IndustriesChemical

Energy & Power Oil and Gas Pharmaceutical

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Glossary

Data consistency Data is entered only once and is then available to all stake­holders anytime and everywhere. Stringent inheritance and linkage mechanisms provide all stakeholders involved in a project with access to up­to­date and consistent data from any location and at all times.

Data integration Data integration brings information together from various data sources to construct a common data model with a standard structure. In software engineering, data integra­tion extends from linking different applications up to the central provision of data and services on a unified user interface.

Data modeling Data modeling helps avoid inconsistencies and redundan­cies within the managed data and speeds up data access; it can be supported by stored rulesets.

Global engineering Global engineering is the concurrent processing of a proj­ect, across multiple countries and time zones, by multiple stakeholders involved in project development. Data can be viewed from any location around the globe and can be edited depending on selective access authorizations.

Interoperability Interoperability is the ability of mutually independent systems and technologies to smoothly collaborate by com­plying with common standards. Information can be effi­ciently provided without the need for specific inter­system arrangements. This facilitates quick and reliable world­wide decision­making around the clock.

Object orientation in COMOS Object orientation is the holistic description of an existing component and its true­to­life graphical representation. The graphical and alphanumerical manifestations within the database constitute a single entity – the object.

Parallelization Rather than processing individual development steps sequentially, simultaneous engineering parallelizes differ­ent workflows within project execution. Concurrent pro­cessing of mutually independent activities and overlap­ping of interdependent work steps can be performed while constantly exchanging information accelerates product development.

Time to market Time to market refers to the development time it takes from a product being conceived until its market entry. This time period is characterized by costs without any returns.

Transparency Holistic, function­oriented mapping of plant and equip­ment makes for end­to­end communication across all lev­els, offering all stakeholders consistent data, without any losses, on a unified data platform. As a result, the com­plete documentation can be traced anytime.

Workflow and workflow management system A workflow (sequence of operations) is a series of activi­ties in organizational processes that has a defined start, an organized sequence, and a defined end. A workflow management system is a software that controls the individ­ual steps within a workflow in accordance with the sched­ule stored in the computer and provides or requests the data required for this purpose.

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