Siemens and Microsoft Alliance

Siemens and Microsoft together - through the strong interoperability of their IT platforms - deliver to manufacturers the most comprehensive offering from design to production process improvements, lowest cost of ownership and ease-of-use. The mission of this Partnership is to offer to industrial customers the proof of concept of easy-to-integrate approaches & solutions for manufacturing environments; to provide collaboratively developed products for product innovations and more customer benefits; to show use-cases (demos, calculations etc.) on how to reduce and control IT expenses and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

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SIMATIC IT - Manufacturing Execution and Intelligence

SIMATIC IT is the MES portfolio from Siemens and includes a wide range of Manufacturing Execution and Intelligence Functionality. SIMATIC IT is modular and scalable, and adapted to the needs of process, life sciences and discrete manufacturers. Its innovative architecture based on a framework and components, as well as its modeling capabilities, assures fast and smooth roll-outs through re-use of manufacturing process models and comes completed with industry specific templates for the lowest TCO.

SIMATIC IT Libraries

The SIMATIC IT portfolio includes industry specific libraries that provide a set of SIMATIC IT Best Practice templates in the form of rules, reports and user interfaces. With preconfigured applications, customers benefit from the best possible combination of a standard software product and a customized solution.

SIMATIC IT: MES in a Box for Process Industries

SIMATIC IT for Process Industry provides besides production execution capabilities, as well integrated quality functionality. It also ensures complete and realtime equipment visibility and production line monitoring according to different roles, tasks and authorizations in production management.

SIMATIC IT in a Box for Process industries is available for primary and secondary production processes.

SIMATIC IT: MES in a Box for Discrete Industries

SIMATIC IT offers a fully dedicated solution for discrete manufacturers having to manage engineer-to-order, manufacture to order or manufacture to stock processes for the automotive and trucks industries, aerospace, mechanical and electronic assembly. SIMATIC IT for Discrete Industry ensures greater process-flexibility and efficiency, complete integration of regulatory requirements and reduction in maintenance and operation costs.

SIMATIC IT: MES in a Box for Life Sciences Industries

SIMATIC IT for Life Sciences offers pharmaceutical manufacturers, one of the broadest ranges of prevalidated MES functionalities currently available in the market, while at the same time supporting guidelines and rules from the FDA. The implementation of MES, including industry specific functionality such as Weighing and Dispensing, electronic batch records etc. will allow companies to improve manufacturing processes, enforce quality and regulatory compliance and shorten time-to-production and time-to-market.

References for Process Industry

MES solution at Palm Breweries

In 2008 Palm Breweries equipped its sites in Steenhuffel and Roeselare (Belgium) with an MES system based on SIMATIC IT by Siemens and implemented by Actemium. An evaluation of the system shows that the strategic project targets, traceability, integrated quality and process improvements, have been reached or even exceeded.

Henkel Hanover location optimizes production process with MES solution from Siemens

At its Hanover production plant, used since the end of the fifties to produce sealing compounds and adhesives, Henkel is going ahead with a scheme to upgrade its production process with an MES solution from the Siemens Industry Automation Division. The aim of the project is to improve order management.

References for Discrete Industry

MES Solution with SIMATIC IT - Automotive - Johnson Matthey

Johnson Matthey, a manufacturer of catalytic converters for heavy goods vehicles in Redwitz, gives its performance a double boost: with the SIMATIC IT MES, the company improves process safety as well as productivity.

MES solution with SIMATIC IT - Aerospace - Alenia Aermacchi
“What has convinced us for SIMATIC IT is that it consists of various modules which can be built together, and in case of changes in plant layout and thus in information flows, it only takes some changes to one module to change the downstream information flow."

Tomassini, former Head of Engineering, Final Assembly.

References for Life Sciences

Production plant at Fresenius Medical Care modernised with IT and automation solutions
The Siemens Industry Automation division is modernising the business IT and process control technology of the production plant for dialysis concentrates at Fresenius Medical Care GmbH in Bad Homburg Ober-Erlenbach. Simatic IT, the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software, acts as a link between SAP and the PCS7 process control system, optimising plant capacity utilisation and increasing flexibility.

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Overview

SIMATIC IT Value Added Services (VAS) offers significant benefits to customers through an innovative Maintenance concept, a new Partner Program and Technical Training.

SIMATIC IT training Courses combine theory and practice to provide deep knowledge of SIMATIC IT. The SIMATIC IT training catalogue includes product trainings, end-user training, partner trainings, and expert workshops.

The SIMATIC IT Partner program is a key module of the overall Siemens Solution Partner Program. It addresses all kinds of partners, with a complex global or simple local organization, either with or without MES experience, with industry specific or broad general experience.

The SIMATIC IT Maintenance Program offers a combination of predictive, preventive and reactive measures based on the newest technologies, to help customers prevent unplanned costs for system interventions.

Agents

Siemens is extending its maintenance offering with SIMATIC IT Agents-based Diagnosis Service. The use of this technology lets manufacturers anticipate potential critical events within their plant and IT infrastructure and speed up their analysis and solution. This predictive approach provides customers with benefits in terms of plant availability, as it fully eliminates the need for interruptions of the production and avoids breakdowns while solving a problem or determining its cause. This results in time and cost savings, not only in terms of plant availability, but also in terms of IT services. Customers making use of this technology will also see a substantial added value to their IT services in terms of flexibility, productivity, costs and overall quality.

Update Management Service

This service offers the possibility to monitor the SIMATIC IT software configuration and the level of update of the software product, libraries and the related applications; to distribute and install updates and enhancements; to store the historic record of previously performed update activities. The monitoring activity is managed centrally by the TSS, which corresponds and exchanges information with a SIMATIC IT Software Management Tool (SMT) server installed at the customer plant. Without the Software Management Tool, the update of each plant installation had to be performed separately involving a system shut down to allow the TSS to upload SIMATIC IT Product Hot Fixes and application updates, and involving a production stop at each of the plants involved in the updating phase. This tool is also extremely meaningful to let the customer achieve a standard alignment of the same version of Product and Libraries in all plants involved in the project.

Microsoft and Siemens Alliance

References for Process Industry

References for Discrete Industry

References for Life Sciences