Siemens Simatic Plc’s: For a Better Tomorrow in Automation

Latest Programmable Logic Controller’s (PLC’s). 

When we think about PLC’s & Automation then some dominant companies come in our perception like, 

• Siemens AG (Germany) 
• Allen Bradley (Rockwell Automation, U.S.A,)  
• Eaton Corp. plc, (U.S.A,–Ireland Multinational)  
• GE Fanuc Emerson (U.S.A,)  

• Schneider Electric SE (France) 
• Omron Corp. (Japan) 
• Hitachi ltd (Japan)  
• Mitsubishi Electric (Japan) and 
• Panasonic Corp. (Japan).   

Talking about Siemens which is a German Global Conglomerate as well as the largest industrial manufacturer in EURpe & the top manufacturer of PLC’s & automation modules.  

Now let’s have a closer and more refined study of Siemens latest line of PLC’s nowadays in extensive use due to their exceptional & ideal technical & industry friendly specifications. 

Siemens New line of PLC’s is known by the name of “Simatic”. 

Why Siemens “Simatic” PLC’s ?

As there is a huge market for “Robots” in all areas of sophisticated industrial usage, an idea that only Siemens knew from the very beginning. Siemens Simatic Robot Integrator software also termed as application (app) makes it easy to combine robots from different manufacturers into machine concepts in a fast & easy style using Totally integrated Automation (TIA) portal which can be easily viewed via a computer monitor, screen or terminal without any need of external human experts. The universal Simatic Robot Library is another robust software application which is a recognized standard in manufacturing industry surpassing all major customer requirements.  

Siemens Simatic Robot Library software which is exclusively for the Simatic Robot Integrator is a universal robot Software Suite for TIA Portal that supersedes earlier redundant manufacturer’s specific software compilations. It incorporates the Standard Robot Command Interface developed by Profibus & Profinet International (PI) Organization, Karlsruhe, Germany. 

The Simatic Robot Library was developed in close co-operation with Paramount robot makers like  

• ABB Robotics (Sweden) 
• Comau, Inc (Italy)  

• Epson Robotics (U.S.A.,)  
• Kuka (Germany)  
• Stäubli Corp. (Switzerland)  
• Kawasaki Robotics (Japan)  
• Fanuc (Japan)  

• Yamaha Robotics (Japan) 
• Panasonic Industry (Japan)  
• Denso Robotics (Japan) 
• Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. (Japan) 
• Techman Robotics (Taiwan)  

• Midea Robotics (China) & 
• Yaskawa Motoman Robotics (China).  

In the coming days, customers will be able to use the Simatic Robot Library to program almost all commercial & industrial robots in TIA Portal and combine them into their machine structures, thanks to user-friendly operating ideas, with no outside professional experts help. Two EURpean Robot maker’s have already have already applied the connection to their controllers & hand over the requisite interpreter. The 1st test trials are under process.  

Now Main importance of Siemens TIA Portal is as under.  

High-end Features:   

◾Automated alerting of professional experts via upgrades: Each one knows who is working on a Design & who is under compulsion for alterations.
◾ Communication with a shared Data that is centrally managed gives traceable alterations & clearly explained workflows for the working experts.
◾ Storing automation works on the project server for downloading the latest software for individual subprojects locally, execute them and synchronize alterations. 

As we all know that working with in a team is not easy. Waiting for input from others consumes time and decelerates processes, which as a result makes a cutback in overall efficiency. For manufacturers this means being less competition. But working on a project simultaneously and efficiently with multiple colleagues can save valuable engineering and commissioning time during automation projects.  

Siemens TIA Portal offers several free integrated aspects for reducing coordination efforts and work processes in Parallel so that all project professionals can work from their own locations.  

As a first step, all users need Full Access to the Siemens TIA Portal Projects Server that gives them full access to centrally  

manage, version, and document automation works. Siemens TIA Portal then permits all team members for working on their specific works in parallel or even to collaborate on a special task during the engineering & the commissioning stages. Due to the TIA Portal Teamcenter Gateway option, all machine data is managed across multiple platform disciplines & an automation team can  

Collectively engineer any Siemens TIA project stored in Siemens Teamcenter software.
 

The UMAC (User Management and Access Control) prevents team professionals from making unwanted changes to somebody else’s subproject. That feature gives specialized roles & permissions to the participants and gives them personalized access for every usage .