World-Class products for smart pulp & paper 

For over 60 years, the consistent, end-to-end, efficient, and scalable SIMATIC family portfolio has ensured an optimal solution for every application area, including many applications in pulp, paper, and tissue manufacturing. Take advantage of the system’s end-to-end consistency. In combination with integrated engineering in the TIA Portal, it will help you substantially reduce your costs and time to market.

If you’re looking for an intelligent solution for the increasingly complex processes and demands for machine and plant functionality, you can’t go wrong with our human-machine interface products. SIMATIC HMI devices are optimally tailored to your specific needs in the area of machine-level operator control and monitoring. Thanks to the consistent use of open, standardized hardware and software interfaces, the individual components can be perfectly integrated in your automation solution.

By closing the gap between the real and digital worlds, our identification and locating systems ensure total transparency and a high level of communication, which in turn creates new potential for adding value along the entire production and supply chain. Pulp, paper, and tissue manufacturers are already benefiting from a unique, consistent, and end-to-end range of customer-specific applications that can also enable you to create the basis for intelligent data management.

Whether you’re controlling machines or entire production plants in the fiber industry, industrial communication is the key to managing these complex tasks. In addition, powerful communication solutions support the digital transformation process. The foundation is the reliable and secure networking of machines and plants based on professional planning and implementation using network components.

With more than 50,000 proven device combinations, the SIRIUS modular system offers you a comprehensive portfolio of industrial switching technology for quickly and efficiently creating the optimal control panel. The modular construction of our products makes it easy to plan and install them in control panels and integrate them into decentralized systems.

For industries that add a great deal of value such as the pulp and paper industry, increasing productivity is critical for staying competitive. What’s required is the acquisition and evaluation of production and process data. Our industry software supports you in the digitalization and integration of your entire industrial value chain.

How would you like to implement applications and solutions that far exceed the functions of a traditional controller when manufacturing pulp, paper, and tissue products? Our PC-based automation is the answer. SIMATIC PC-based products offer you a flexible and innovative platform for handling growing demands for computing power, functions, and availability.

A pulp and paper factory places high demands on its power supply. Sophisticated production processes require that a steady supply voltage be maintained. Our complete range of power supply units supplies a regulated 24 volts as well as other output voltages. Thanks to their extreme reliability, SITOP power supplies are established around the world and can even cope with critical network conditions.

Depending on the market, industry, and customer, the demands placed on automation components range from extreme conditions and special applications to customer-specific products. Our portfolio for specific requirements ensures that you have the right solution for every task in pulp, paper, and tissue manufacturing.

Whether it’s a matter of individual converters for stock preparation, multi-motor drives for paper machines, or the generation of special paper and tissue paper, the SINAMICS converter family’s various product versions provide the perfect solution for every application in the paper industry. Thanks to the SINAMICS platform’s proven closed-loop control technology, it’s possible to perfectly adapt synchronous motors, induction motors, and DC motors to the characteristics of the machine being driven. SINAMICS drives offer the best performance and functionality for every application, as well as seamless integration into the automation technology and digitalization solutions.

SIMOTICS three-phase motors are known as the right choice for all applications in the power range from 0.09 to 5,300 kW. One of the benefits of these motors is their extreme flexibility. They can either be connected directly to the line supply or be used in combination with SINAMICS converters for variable-speed operation. The SIMOTICS product family also has the right solution for the paper industry, including all areas of application across all process chains. Every requirement is covered, from standard applications and applications in hazardous areas to high-performance applications in paper production. We also offer special motors that meet the specifications of both the Asian and North American markets.

SIMOTICS CONNECT 400 is the intelligent connection between SIMOTICS low-voltage motors and digitalization platforms such as MindSphere, and always provides you with important data on the condition of your SIMOTICS motors.

With the new SIMOGEAR series, you especially benefit from the highest level of flexibility. Thanks to their wide range of gear units, total adaptability, and compact design, these products are ideal for all applications in pulp and paper manufacturing as well as in the processing of the products manufactured. 

With SIMATIC PCS 7, you’re ready to meet today’s requirements and tomorrow’s challenges. More than 20 years of innovative spirit and thousands of installations worldwide make SIMATIC PCS 7 a proven, future-proof process control system that protects your investments over the long term. Thanks to the modularity of the hardware and software components, the process control system can be flexibly used in all sectors and areas of the process and hybrid industry. The individual components can be seamlessly integrated to create a system that is as unique as your plant.

Bring the future of process automation into the pulp and paper industry: The SIMATIC PCS neo process control system offers you system software that has been completely re-developed, together with a flexible licensing and maintenance concept. It opens up new digital options for you as well as global, web-based collaboration in engineering and operations. Take advantage of its unique usability, with all relevant information in a workbench that is based on an object-oriented data model. In conjunction with its open, flexible architecture that supports modular engineering and the Module Type Package (MTP) standard, SIMATIC PCS neo delivers maximum efficiency in engineering and operations. The new system uses the recently innovated hardware portfolio and application architecture of the proven SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system, thus ensuring an optimal balance of innovation and protection of your expertise and investment. 

Manufacturing paper, pulp and tissue requires flexible automation solutions that can be scaled to the tasks at hand.  The SIMATIC PCS 7 CPU 410-5H is an integral component of the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system and is currently the fastest and most powerful controller on the market.  With performance that is scalable to the number of process objects, all utilization scenarios and application areas can be covered on the basis of a single platform. This gives you long-term investment protection. In addition, expanded security features ensure maximum availability and increased system security.

Are you seeking to transfer your regular plant concept for the paper industry to the digital world? The SIMATIC Compact Field Unit (CFU) offers you many new possibilities. Connection to the field device is much simpler thanks to plug-and-produce capability. This means that the compact field unit installed at the process level is connected directly via PROFINET to your process control system, thus smoothing the way for digitalization in the field. And consistent decentralization gives you even more flexibility.

A compact design, flexible connection possibilities, and high availability thanks to redundant PROFINET connections: the SIMATIC ET 200SP HA distributed I/O system is perfectly adapted to the requirements of the paper industry. The system can be installed in the field in a distributed manner and is also designed for use in a control cabinet. The SIMATIC ET 200SP HA thus offers you a flexible and future-proof solution.

Whether artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, blockchain, cognitive engineering, or 5G, our Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) portfolio is constantly being supplemented with innovative technologies. When you use these products, you join us in shaping the future of automation and establishing the basis for wide-ranging digitalization. All these technologies contribute to making you more productive and efficient and shortening your time to market – with sustainably produced pulp, paper, and tissue products.

How would you like to make better use of the data from your pulp, paper, and tissue production by acquiring and processing it directly and securely at the machine? Then bring IT to the shop floor – easily, flexibly, and securely – with the aid of our Industrial Edge products and systems and with no latency, using your software and a central system for administration, deployment, and updates.

How would you like to improve engineering quality and speed up commissioning using a flexible and simple simulation design? With the SIMIT simulation platform, we’re offering you a tool for virtual commissioning and operator training. It’s the best way for you to take advantage of the possibilities of process optimization in pulp and paper manufacturing, throughout the entire life cycle of your plants.

In the paper and pulp industry, as in other sectors, there’s a growing demand for comprehensive plant management. With the COMOS CAE solution, you can create a digital data model in which all disciplines are fully integrated, from process design to engineering and operation. In addition, COMOS can be seamlessly linked to your process control technology to provide a seamless flow of data. And with COMOS Walkinside, you have access to powerful 3D virtual reality visualization for engineering, commissioning, training, and operation. 

Plants in the paper and fiber industry provide an endless amount of data every day. But which data is truly relevant for operations? That’s where XHQ operations intelligence software comes in. It aggregates, integrates, analyzes, and visualizes asset and business information using all the data sources from control technology, engineering, and simulation. For you, this means easy access to complex data at all times and from any location for better and faster decision-making.

MindSphere, our cloud-based, open IoT operating system, makes it possible to acquire and utilize operational data. It enables you to feed knowledge gained from analyzing the data back into the digital twin to ensure ongoing optimization. MindSphere also lets you develop new service and business models based on the utilization of data. MindSphere provides paper, pulp, and tissue manufacturers with a user-friendly platform for taking advantage of digital services as well as creating new applications and business models.

The increasing connectivity of industrial infrastructures requires corresponding protective measures for automation environments. This is where our comprehensive cybersecurity concept comes into its own. It protects people, processes, and technologies – from the analysis of the security situation and establishment of protective measures to the continuous monitoring of your plants.

Make your SINAMICS low-voltage converters and SIMOTICS low-voltage motors communication-capable: Connectivity modules record all of the drive component’s relevant operational data, e.g. operating and condition data, via sensors and communicate that information to MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens.

With Engineering und Integration Services, our experts help you to reliably implement the digitalization concept for your plants in the paper and pulp industry. These services include developing suitable infrastructures with the right connectivity, in order to establish the necessary connection between field-to-edge and cloud, as well as integrating new software, virtual machines, and digital twins.

In existing plants, the PlantSight tool gives you greater data transparency over the constantly growing volume of data from the complex processes that are involved in processing fibers. It makes it possible to combine data from multiple sources and in this way obtain quick access to information that was previously unavailable. A complete, digital twin of the plant is created that can be retrieved via a simple, easily accessible web portal as the optimal basis for informed decision-making.

Model-based technologies are the key to efficient plant engineering and operation. Simulations help optimize processes and make it possible to make reliable predictions about the plant. Their consistent use throughout a process plant’s entire life cycle maximizes your economic advantages. The consistent integration of gPROMS, SIMIT, COMOS, and SIMATIC PCS 7 enables an end-to-end flow of data throughout the entire life cycle of your plant, for greater cost-effectiveness in the pulp and paper industry.

Competitiveness in a quickly changing market environment is a top priority for companies in the paper industry. With their many years of expertise and innovative thinking, our service experts provide you with support throughout the entire value chain – and help you to maintain your market position and further expand it if possible. To that end, they will work with you to develop the right digitalization strategy.

The increased digitalization of paper production plants raises important questions. Our service experts can provide additional assistance on topics such as:

• Ways to improve to your Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Identifying critical KPIs that you should monitor
• Ways to implement intelligent algorithms

Today, everyone in the paper industry – whether they’re operators of paper plants, machine builders and plant engineers or system integrators – is under pressure to maximize plant productivity and minimize unexpected downtimes. This requires simple access to technical product knowledge and quick expert support. Our service experts provide you with comprehensive support directly from the product manufacturer. 

Our efficient and cost-effective maintenance strategies can be adapted to the specific requirements of any paper machine and plant, regardless of manufacturer. In this way, unplanned production downtimes are reliably prevented and high plant output as well as continuous operations, even under harsh conditions, are ensured.

The Spare Parts Services provided by Siemens AG ensure a smooth and rapid spare parts supply for pulp and paper machines, thus ensuring optimal plant availability. In addition, our logistics experts handle procurement, shipping, customs clearance, storage and order management, planning and control of logistics processes as well as returns management.

Siemens Repair Services include all measures for inspecting and, if necessary, restoring a product’s agreed-on functionalities. Repairs may also cover improvements to functionalities.

Our retrofit and modernization services for the paper industry increase plant availability. They reliably reduce the growing maintenance costs associated with an advanced life cyle, and help identify and utilize additional efficiency and energy-saving potential.