Simulating the entire plant, including the controller and HMI, and evaluating it based on a virtual model reduces local commissioning time thanks to PLCSIM Advanced, the controller’s digital twin.

• Access to rapid testing of PLC modules
  With SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced integrated as an option into TIA Portal
• Easy plant modeling using time sequences and switching
  With SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced and model creation using SIMATIC STEP 7
• Complex models created in high-level languages

  By connecting to independently created applications (C, C#, third-party, etc.) using the PLCSIM Advanced interface
• Simulation of automation in the context of a machine or plant
  By connecting PLCSIM Advanced to SIMIT, NX MCD, Process Simulate or Plant Simulation

For more information on simulation offerings, please click here.

TIA Portal allows you to efficiently create your project using software generators and in this way reduce the number of redundant workflows. With Teamcenter, you also merge the project versions from planning, engineering, and design.

• Efficiently create program code
  With code generators connected via TIA Portal Openness interface
• Use existing third-party data
  From EPLAN, Mathworks, TIA Selection Tool, or 3rd party using hardware/software import/export via TIA Portal Openness interface
  
• Save projects worldwide
  By storing TIA Portal projects in Teamcenter

Increase flexibility in your everyday work while maintaiing total data consistency, regardless of the terminal used. The new TIA Portal Cloud connector lets you access the system controller from your private cloud. No installation on the engineering workstation is necessary. MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens, can also be used for additional digital services.

• Easy online access
  With TIA Portal Cloud connector and your private cloud
• End-to-end planning regardless of the terminal used
  With TIA Selection Tool cloud, you can even work on tablets, regardless of operating system
  
• Analyses and services offerings in the same quality worldwide
  With MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens

TIA Portal lets you integrate all the key components in your automation project, including safety, security, control, HMI, drives, decentralized peripherals, motion control, and power distribution. Fewer repeated inputs, a shared database, and a standardized user interface for all tasks help reduce your engineering time.

• Support for redundant and highly available applications with SIMATIC S7-1500R/H CPUs
• Integration of all SINAMICS converter systems and servo drives – Including integration of SINAMICS S210 into SINAMICS Startdrive, SINAMICS V90, and SIMATIC Microdrive
• Drive solutions as an integral part of TIA Portal
  Thanks to the powerful combination of SIMATIC S7-1500 T-CPU or the SIMATIC Drive Controller with servo drive systems
• Electrification as an integral component
  Thanks to the integration of the 3VA molded case circuit breaker and SENTRON measuring devices
  
• Network integration and hardware diagnostics for all SIMATIC IPCs
  Thanks to PC Station 2.1

With TIA Portal Multiuser Engineering, multiple people can access a project at the same time. Synchronization is system-supported. This means that you can flexibly process tasks and complete them simultaneously – both device-oriented and task-based.

• Work on a project together as part of a team 
  And manage it flexibly on a server using Multiuser Engineering, commissioning mode, and software units
  
• Promote corporate standards
  Through the basic definition and administration of program code in TIA Portal libraries
• Connect versioning tools using the Version Control Interface
• Easily combine HMI and PLC expertise

  Using the substitute PLC
• Shared online commissioning
  Up to five developers can monitor a control system and import upgrades online simultaneously

Reduce the amount of additional time and effort needed to reliably identifying faults and quickly correct them, thanks to numerous programming code templates, many new and efficient diagnostic tools, cyclical system test recordings during commissioning, and analysis of sporadic faults.

• Targeted support with numerous program code templates
  Thanks to the new help system and standard libraries
• Many new and efficient diagnostic options
  Such as content-based comparisons, web server diagnostics, and other diagnostic functions
• Cyclical system test recordings
  During commissioning and for analyzing sporadic errors thanks to the integrated trace functionality

Develop your solutions even faster thanks to the automatic generation of HMI visualization via the SIMATIC Visualization Architect (SiVArc), quick and easy machine and plant diagnostics (SIMATIC ProDiag), the efficient implementation of energy management, and automatic program creation using software generators that are linked via TIA Portal Openness interface.

• Generate HMI visualizations automatically
  Using the SIMATIC Visualization Architect (SiVArc)
• Implement machine and plant diagnostics quickly and easily 

  Using automatic code generation and visualization of monitoring with SIMATIC ProDiag
• Easily implement efficient energy management
  From energy data acquisition to proactive load management and the automatic generation of the PLC program using the SIMATIC Energy Suite, as well as the standardized evaluation of machine efficiency using the S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor
• Generate programs automatically using third-party systems to control TIA Portal
  Via public API TIA Portal Openness

Thanks to the comprehensive library concept, you can easily reuse all project objects and in this way avoid duplicating your work. Safeguard your specialist knowledge over the long term with know-how-protected blocks, and easily refine existing systems and projects in TIA Portal.

• Easily reuse all project objects

  Including a versioning and the update function thanks to the comprehensive library concept
• Reliably safeguard know-how over the long term
  Using know-how-protected blocks
• Easily refine existing plants and projects in TIA Portal
  Thanks to the supported migration of existing projects

• You can make the right decisions quickly thanks to maximum transparency based on consistent data storage in production. The system supports WinCC and WebUX as well as WebNavigator for remote access and control.
• Web-based operation and monitoring
  Flexibly on various devices/browsers using WinCC/WebUX or comprehensive remote access using WinCC/Webnavigator

• The integrated SIMATIC Energy Suite automation solution, the S7 energy efficiency monitor, and the seamlessly connected Energy Manager energy management system enable you to control your energy costs at all times. The SIMATIC Energy Suite’s easy and efficient capturing of energy data provides you with the energy transparency according to ISO 50001 that’s required for saving energy. You can also monitor the agreed capacity limits for electrical energy and avoid fines with load management from the SIMATIC Energy Suite.
• Easy and efficient energy data acquisition and load management
  As an integrated automation solution with the SIMATIC Energy Suite and S7 Energy Efficiency Monitor
• Reduced operating costs
  Thanks to the comprehensive energy data management system SIMATIC Energy Manager

• The efficient and integrated diagnosis of process errors reduces production downtimes and increases the availability of your machines and production plants. The standardized machine and plant diagnostic function (SIMATIC ProDiag) provides you with efficient analyses of process breakdowns. Integrated system diagnosis helps you to quickly identify errors in the automation system across all system components.
• Immediately identify errors in the automation system

  Thanks to an integrated system diagnosis across all system components
• Efficiently diagnose process breakdowns

  Using the standardized machine and plant diagnostic function with SIMATIC ProDiag

Connecting automation and IT levels by means of open communication makes it easy to integrate higher-level MES/ERP solutions. The SIMATIC OPC UA standardized communication protocol or WinCC AddOns let you forward production data to systems of other manufacturers. IndustrialDataBridge is used for bidirectional, cross-system communication via standard interfaces, without any programming effort.

• Connection of vendor-specific systems
  Thanks to the support of the standardized communication protocol SIMATIC OPC UA an OPC UA client is integrated into the CPU in addition to the OPC UA server. The SiOME (Siemens OPC UA Modeling Editor) configuration tool is also available at no extra charge
  
• Multisystem data communication
  
Via standard interfaces with WinCC/IndustrialDataBridge
• Add-ons
  Powerfull WinCC Process Management Add-ons for a wide range of tasks