Press dates Siemens Press dates at Hannover Messe 2013

Content01 Press dates

Hannover Messe

02 TIA-Portal

03 Comos Tour 2013

04 Pop, crackle and bang

05 Power-to-Gas plants

06 Industrial communikations

07 RFID applications

08 Industrial network products

09 Process industries

10 Did you know …?

11 clear and brief

Monday, April 8, 2013Admission 18.00 hrs, start 18:30 hrsSiemens Press Conference Convention Center, Room 1Thomas M. Doebler, Partner / Head of Manufacturing at Deloitte Germany, and Prof. Dr. Siegfried Russwurm, CEO Siemens Industry Sector, will be in Hanover to discuss socio-political trends in modern industrial societies and the technical requirements of fu-ture-oriented production. Tackling a very current theme, Thomas Doebler will be presenting a paper entitled “Manufacturing Renaissance – Pros-pects for a Competitive Industry”, and Prof. Dr. Siegfried Russwurm will be talking on “Shaping the Future of Pro-duction with Siemens: On the way to Industry 4.0”.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013from 09.00 – 10.00 hrsPress Breakfast Siemens PLM SoftwareConvention Center, Room 17“Smarter decisions, better products”. In view of tighter budgets and shorter pro-duct lifecycles, minimizing the turnaround from ideas into successful products has never been more important for compa-nies. Efficient Product Lifecycle Manage-ment (PLM) provides an integral approach to optimizing company-wide innovation and product development processes. Urban August, CEO of Siemens PLM Software in Germany, will be providing an overview of the latest developments and customer projects happening in the German market. He will talk about ways in which software from Siemens can help drive forward the integration of these pro-cesses and about the role played by the company’s latest acquisitions in achieving these aims. Press information relating to Siemens PLM software will be available during the fair at Booth E18, Hall 7. «

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Siemens at Hannover Messewww.siemens.com/hanover-fair

Press Office at Booth D35, Hall 9

The Press Office will be located to the

rear of the Siemens booth, on the far right.

Siemens Press Office employees will be

pleased to talk to you there from Monday

through Friday.

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TIA Portal Tourwww.siemens.com/tiaportal-innovationtour

Nuremberg, Germany. Since the be-ginning of the year, the Siemens In-dustry Automation Division has been on the road with its “TIA Portal Inno-vation Tour” under the banner “Expe-rience new dimensions”. Prospective users in some 54 different regions around the world can find out all about the Totally Integrated Automa-tion Portal (TIA Portal), drive integra-tion and the new S7-1500 controller family. Visitors will be able to disco-ver how to optimize their production processes through quick, efficient engineering and significantly improve plant profitability.As part of the TIA Portal Innovation Tour, Siemens experts will be holding a series of fascinating live demonst-rations to show how even the most demanding automation tasks can be

easily solved using the TIA Portal: The different events, which can last up to a day, will offer users the chance to experience the intuitive operating concept first hand. High-lights featured on the tour will inclu-de the high-performance Simatic S7-1500 controller family and drive integration with Stardrive, alongside other products suitable for use with the TIA Portal. The individual events will be supplemented by a video presentation and a well-ba-lanced microfair showcasing the in-dividual products in more detail. Ai-med at a wide audience spanning different branches of industry, the Innovation Tour is designed to ap-peal to all those interested in fin-ding innovative automation solu-tions.

TIA PortalTIA Portal goes on world tour

The TIA Portal allows users to find solutions to wide-ranging automati-on and drive tasks: from project creation through commissioning, operation and maintenance to up-grades for existing automation solu-tions. With its intuitive user inter-face and uniform operating concept, integrated system diagnostics for transparent, device-independent display and shared, consistent data storage, the efficient engineering framework for control, display and drives also significantly drives down project costs. «

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Comos - Making data work.-Tourwww.siemens.com/comos

Comos Tour 2013Comos - Making data work.-Tour 2013 launches in April

For details of dates, tour stops and other information on the “Comos - Making data work.”-Tour 2013, go to www.siemens.com/comos. Here, anyone interested in taking part can register for this free event series. «

Nuremberg, Germany. The „Comos - Making data work.”-Tour 2013 is due to take to the road in April. Up until the end of September 2013, experts from the Siemens Industry Automation Divi-sion will be providing information on the trends, challenges and innovations affecting the process industries around the world in several regions.

By staging one-day events featuring live demonstrations, presentations and a microfair exhibition, experts from Siemens will be spreading the word to visitors about both industry-specific and overarching concepts using the software solution Comos. The spot-light will be on the entire plant lifecycle and on ways

of interlinking the worlds of planning and operation. The tour will set out to show how an integrated system of plant management can be implemen-ted on the basis of a uniform, object-oriented data platform – from the en-gineering stage through automation to plant operation.

Visitors will have the opportunity to experience more efficient ways of configuring workflows, consistently and safely exchanging data from pl-anning through to maintenance, and accessing the latest plant documen-tation at any time for an accurate up-to-date snapshot.

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Pop, crackle and bangAutomated pop, crackle and bang

Programmable logic controllerswww.siemens.com/controller

TIA Portalwww.siemens.com/tia-portal

Las Vegas, Nevada/USA. The Spencer Technical Group based in Las Vegas is a specialist in the field of control panels for pyrotechnical systems used in con-certs. For control and synchronization, the manufacturer relies on technology from the Siemens Industry Automation Division. Based on controls from the Si-matic S7-1200 series, the company has succeeded in significantly improving safety and driving down its engineering input and costs by around 30 percent.

Rock bands such as Guns n’ Roses, Nickleback or Kiss often add excite-ment to their concerts by using pyro-technical effects. The Spencer Techni-cal Group controls, monitors and synchronizes the flame heads, firing boards and propane gas accumulators used. Using an automation solution based on PLC (programmable logic controller) technology, the company has succeeded in significantly impro-ving safety and reliability for the opera-tor. The system is able to monitor faults occurring in the flame heads and moni-tor gas pressure in the accumulator tanks. Using the TIA Portal Engineering Framework, Spencer was also able to simplify the configuration process, dri-ving down costs and engineering time as much as 30 percent. In its pyrotech-nical solutions, Spencer uses up to 32 Simatic S7-1200 controls, HMI(Human Machine Interface) devices and network components which are jointly configured and simply connected over a Profinet cable. The new PLC-based technology has repla-ced the former hardwi-red system, making for significant savings in terms of wiring costs. A key factor in Spencer’s decision to work with Siemens technology was a com-bination of cost, performance and functionality, for instance simple data exchange between S7-100 controls and all other system components over Profinet. «

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All subsystems and field devices, such as Sitrans flow meters, are inte-grated into the system. The data transparency created in this way ma-kes it possible to efficiently run the plant throughout its entire life cycle. Efficiency is also promoted by the lar-ge number of diagnostic functions in-cluded in Simatic PCS 7. All plant data and documents are organized in a central engineering database which can also be used by subsystem sup-pliers. This significantly reduces the time needed for planning and com-missioning and, hence, time-to-mar-ket. The system‘s scalability ensures the rapid and smooth translation of findings gained in a pilot plant to a large-scale plant.

Storage technologies play a key role in the field of renewable sources of energy: Solar and wind energy do not

supply power during darkness or in calm weather, while producing more than is needed at peak times. Power-to-gas plants help convert surplus generated power to be stored for la-ter use. «

Simatic PCS 7www.siemens.com/pcs7 Solar Industrywww.siemens.com/solar-industry

Power-to-Gas plants Automation of power-to-gas plants

Karlsruhe, Germany. The field of rene-wable energy is facing new challenges especially regarding the expansion, in-tegration and management of power generation. These challenges concern the generation, transportation, trading, distribution and, most importantly, the storage of electrical energy. One pro-mising solution is to store it chemically in the form of hydrogen and methane. In what are known as power-to-gas plants, hydrogen is first produced from surplus electricity generated from re-newable resources. In a subsequent step, it can then, for instance, be con-verted into methane and fed into the existing natural gas grid. The Siemens Industry Automation Division provides integrated and tailor-made automation solutions based on the Simatic PCS 7 process control system which help op-timize the production process and the efficiency of such plants.

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Industrial Communication Extended controller communication

Industrial Communicationwww.siemens.com/industrial-communication

dized IP-Sec protocol. In addition to the access protection functions in the form of password protection which is already supported by Simatic S7-1500 CPU, CP 1543-1 offers a stateful inspection firewall for accessing the S7-1500. «

Nuremberg, Germany. The Siemens Industry Automation Division has de-veloped a new Profibus module and extended the security functions in Simatic S7-1500 controller communi-cation via Industrial Ethernet.

The new CP 1542-5 communication processor provides a connection bet-ween smaller Profibus networks and Simatic-S7-1500 controllers, allowing, for instance, the creation of additional Profibus segments to relieve the S7-1500 CPU from communication func-tions. CP 1542-5 supports Profibus-DP master and slave functions according

to the international standard IEC 61158/61784 as well as S7 routing.

Security functions have been exten-ded in the CP 1543-1 communication processor used to connect Simatic S7-1500 controllers to Industrial Ethernet networks. One of these functions provides additional encryp-tion of data communicated to the controller, thus protecting it more ef-fectively against interception or mani-pulation. For this purpose, VPN(Virtual Private Network) connections are set up with the communication partner. Encryption is based on the standar-

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RFID Systemswww.siemens.com/ident/rfid

Nuremberg, Germany. With the new MDS D117 data carrier, the Siemens Industry Automation Division is exten-ding its transponder portfolio to include an unusually small, compact variant (4 x 5 millimeters) complying with a high IP67/IPx9K protection rating.

The new MDS D117 is the latest editi-on to the Siemens ISO 15693-compli-ant transponder portfolio, and is parti-cularly suited to tool identification applications and for use with small workpiece carriers. The MDS D117 is fitted with a 112 byte EEPROM(Electri-cally Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). The transponder is configured for the 13.56 MHz (RF) fre-

quency range and can be used at a read/write distance of 5 millimeters from the reader. The plastic housing of the MDS D117 can be glued flush with the metal, ensuring protection of the transponder from mechanical in-fluences in hostile industrial environ-ments. The new component is desig-ned to be used at a temperature range of between -25 and +100 de-grees Celsius.

The extensive ISO 15693-compliant range of transponders from Siemens can be used with Simatic RF300 RFID systems in the ISO mode, and also with the highly compact Simatic RF200 system. Electronic labels and

data carriers are a key control ele-ment in logistics chains and produc-tion processes. Siemens offers trans-ponders for a wide variety of applications and framework condi-tions in different sizes, shapes, tem-perature ranges and protection ra-tings. «

RFID applicationsSmall, compact transponder for RFID applications

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Scalance X-100www.siemens.com/X-100

Nuremberg, Germany. The Siemens Industry Automation Division has sup-plemented its portfolio of industrial net-work products to include the new Sca-lance XC100-4OBR optical bypass relay, which permits uninterruptible ac-tivation and deactivation of Industrial Ethernet network devices in line and ring structures.

The new optical bypass relay Scalance XC100-4OBR allows uninterruptible communication with other network users, simplifying applications such as maintenance work on offshore wind farms or chemical plants where indivi-dual devices have to be switched off. If the power is interrupted at the bypass relay and the active network compo-nents concerned, the two optical net-work interfaces are mechanically re-connected within ten milliseconds. Thus the connection to the deactiva-ted network component is bypassed automatically while disconnected from the power supply. When the power is restored, the bypass is retained intact long enough to ensure that the net-work components are once again rea-dy for operation and the connection between them and the adjacent com-ponents has been re-established. In ring-shaped network structures, the new mechanism allows a ring device to be switched on or off without acti-vating the redundancy manager. With the aid of a green button at the device, the user is able to configure the activa-tion delay and the voltage range.

The new Scalance XC100-4OBR opti-cal bypass relay from Siemens is available with an extended tempera-ture range (-40 to +70 degrees Celsi-us) and PCBs with conformal coating to withstand hostile industrial environ-ments. «

Industrial network productsUninterruptible mechanical redundancy for networks

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Process industriesEducational event during the Hannover Messe

Field Communications Protocolwww.automation.siemens.com/w1/automation-technology-hart-18783.htm

The Hart Communication Foundati-on (HCF) is an independent, inter-national membership organization. Its task is to ensure the support of the Hart Communication Protocol technology and standards, as well as to promote its use. The Founda-tion is supported by a global mem-bership of more than 280 compa-nies. The mission of the Hart Communication Foundation is to provide worldwide support to the process automation industry and its member companies. «

Nuremberg, Germany/Austin, Texas/USA. The Hart Communication Foun-dation celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2013. On the occasion of this anni-versary, member companies will invi-te existing and prospective users to a user event.

The 20th Anniversary User Event will be held in the Field Communication Lounge (Hall 9, Stand D76) at Han-nover Messe on Tuesday, April 9th from 16:30 to 20:30 hrs. The event will include a presentation on the his-tory and the services provided by the Hart Communication Foundation and will be followed by a panel discus-sion.

The anniversary event is sponsored by Siemens and other Foundation member companies including ABB,

Azbil, Emerson Process Management, Endress+Hauser, Honeywell, MAC-Tek, Microcyber, Pepperl+Fuchs, Pro-ComSol, Supcon, and Yokogawa.

Hart is a communication standard wi-dely used in the process industry for field devices, allowing modulated in-dustry-standard digital signals to be superimposed over analog 4 to 20 mA signals. Analog communication of rea-dings and simultaneous digital com-munication enables diagnostic, main-tenance and process data from field devices to be transmitted to higher-le-vel systems. The Siemens process in-strumentation portfolio includes a lar-ge number of products supporting the Hart Communication Protocol. All Hart devices can be easily and quickly commissioned using the Simatic PDM (Process Device Manager) for confi-guration and parameterization.

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Did you know …?

... that the Franz Haas compa-ny in Leobendorf near Korneu-burg (Austria) relies on automa-tion systems and drives from Siemens? The Austrian compa-ny has operations in Germany, Brazil, China, Denmark, the Netherlands, Singapore, and USA, and enjoys international success with its high-capacity plants for producing waffles, bi-scuits, cakes and convenience food worldwide.

There is a growing trend in the confectionery industry towards sophisticated products, larger quantities and shorter produc-tion times. To meet these requi-rements, Franz Haas, with an export share of up to 98 per-cent, has upgraded its produc-tion to what are known as high-capacity plants. Franz Haas relies on a large number of Sie-mens applications, solutions and products: From Simatic au-tomation components through to drive technology such as Si-namics and Simotion. «

Programmable Logic Controllerswww.siemens.com/controller

Packaging Machineswww.siemens.com/packaging

Motion Control System Simotionwww.siemens.com/Simotion

Frequency Converters Sinamicswww.siemens.com/Sinamics

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Industrial monitor for practical gesture and multi-touch operation

Hardware and software expanded for safe automation

One process controller for everything

DC uninterruptible power supply com-municates via Ethernet and Profinet

Expanded online range for configuring control cabinets

Comprehensive plant monitoring

Effective detection of residual cur-rents

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MSC Software Corporation selects software components from Siemenswww.siemens.com/press/pi/IIA2013033602e

clear and brief550 scholars en route to Hanover: Around 550 students and pro-fessors/lecturers from 15 universities as well as Siemens interns and working students are travelling to this year’s Hannover Messe at the invitation of Siemens. « www.siemens.com/sce www.siemens.com/career

Siemens and OVC Automation signed a Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU). Both companies aim to strengthen their collabora-tion in the area of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) with focus on the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. OVC Automation will partner with Siemens for its PAT data management solution called Sipat by supplying implementation services including project management, installation, consultancy, qualification/validation and training. « www.industry.siemens.com/verticals/global/en/pharma-indust-ries/process-analytical-technology/Pages/Default.aspx

Gas chromatograph with new operator panel and additional oven versionwww.siemens.com/press/pi/IIA2013033408e

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The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany) supports the entire value chain of its industrial customers – from product design to production and ser-vices – with an unmatched combination of automation technology, industrial control tech-nology, and industrial software. With its soft-ware solutions, the Division can shorten the time-to-market of new products by up to 50 percent. Industry Automation comprises five Business Units: Industrial Automation Systems, Control Components and Systems Engineering, Sensors and Communication, Siemens PLM Software, and Water Technolo-gies. For more information, visit www.siemens.com/industryautomation

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