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SIMATIC PCS neo: Completely web-based process control system

Control technology is crucial for gaining a competitive edge in the process industry. That's why there's SIMATIC PCS neo: the innovative ground-breaking process control system by Siemens: completely rethought, and ready to solve challenges of both today and tomorrow. THINK neo.

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The process industry operates in a very complex environment, and the requirements for its control technology are correspondingly demanding. SIMATIC PCS neo is the intelligent response to this challenge: a completely web-based process control system with object-oriented data management. In the age of digitalization, it offers companies new possibilities for global, entirely web-based collaboration in engineering and operations. SIMATIC PCS neo is characterized by fast and secure system access, intuitive usability and maximum scalability from small process modules to world-scale plants.

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IFAT 2022 - May 30 to June 3, 2022

Finally, IFAT, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management, will again open its doors in Munich from May 30 to June 3, 2022. Our entire Siemens team is now all the more excited to welcome you live and in person at our IFAT booth. We invite you to experience firsthand our technology solutions for a sustainable water business. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet our water experts!

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MEETING EVERY NEED In cooperation with Statista, we surveyed our customers to find their most important requirements and demands for process control systems in a digital world.

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Web-based for outstanding usability and efficiency

Are you seeking a way to more efficiently control your global engineering projects and the operation of your plants? No matter the location? And no matter what device you are using?

SIMATIC PCS neo creates the ideal conditions for doing this. With a central, object-oriented data management, this web-based innovation ensures that all participants always have direct access to consistent, reliable information so they can make the right decisions as quickly as possible. During development, we also focused on usability as well as on lean, secure and reliable administration.

Cybersecurity: a holistic security approach based on “defense-in-depth”

With SIMATIC PCS neo, various security measures are preconfigured right from the start to ensure plant security, network security and system integrity. Read the white paper written by ARC Advisory Group.

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SIMATIC PCS neo 3.1 Get a quick and informative overview of how SIMATIC PCS neo provides your business with the flexibility you need for more effective plant management lifecycles.

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SIMATIC PCS 7 - PROVEN PERFORMANCE FOR PROCESS CONTROL

SIMATIC PCS 7 is the leading distributed control system in many industries

Proven performance with over 20 years of market experience and several thousand installations worldwide. SIMATIC PCS 7 and SIMATIC PCS neo both rely on a uniform system architecture and offers you maximum flexibility, reliability, and efficiency.

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SIMATIC HARDWARE FOR DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS

Discover the shared hardware platform for SIMATIC PCS neo and SIMATIC PCS 7

Both of our systems share the same hardware, such as controllers, distributed I/O, and industrial communication.

Our full-stack solutions ensure reliability, scalability and protect acquired expertise and existing investments.

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References Find out how companies from a wide variety of industries are relying on the new technologies of the distributed control system SIMATIC PCS neo to optimize their processes.

FHNW School of Life Sciences

Basel, Switzerland

Future plant operators meet the future system

At the FHNW School of Life Sciences in Switzerland, students receive comprehensive training to test innovative future technologies and adjust processes in the laboratory before they are implemented on an industrial scale.
In their Process Technology Center, they rely on SIMATIC PCS neo for the secure and reliable control and monitoring of reactor tests. All collected data are wirelessly transferred to mobile devices.
Comprehensive control and measurement technology ensure a faster and clear overview of all processes.

Evonik

Hanau, Germany

Stepping stone to the future

At Evonik’s plant, synthesis processes developed in the lab can be optimized and subsequently produced in large-scale plants.
DCS solution based on SIMATIC PCS neo and MTP to quickly and easily adjust and expand the subplants to a new test.
The web-based technology of SIMATIC PCS neo and the flexibility of MTP offers exactly this flexible, modular engineering to adapt very flexibly to specific customer requirements - a new process or plant section can now be configured much faster.

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Invite

Chempark Leverkusen, Germany

Digital Plant with SIMATIC PCS neo and MTP

In Invite’s Digital Plant Showcase Center in Leverkusen, new digital technologies are tested quickly and easily.
The Digital Plant is a plant designed and implemented in a modular way in terms of process, construction and automation – i.e. flexible in design and open to expansion. New digital technologies can easily be integrated and tested.
The completely web-based process control system, SIMATIC PCS neo is used for orchestrating processes in modular production – for plug and produce using MTP.

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Levaco

Leverkusen, Germany

Levaco relies on digital transformation

Process automation knowledge platform Here we offer you interesting news from the world of process automation. As your partner on the path to digitalization in the process industry, we provide new perspectives on how you can meet growing requirements for security, availability, scalability, and flexibility – and how you can take advantage of the digital transformation to become more efficient and competitive.

Security that goes the extra mile

Defence in Depth is crucial for plant security. See how SIMATIC PCS neo‘s web-based architecture offers maximum protection, while giving authorized personnel optimal access.

ARC View on Siemens market approach for Distributed Control Systems

Harry Forbes from ARC has written a compact article about this unique and sustainable market approach for DCS systems! It ensures that our customers always make the right choice with Siemens as partner, no matter what their future holds!

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Future-oriented process control based on proven hardware

SIMATIC PCS neo offers companies in the process industries entirely new digital possibilities. It uses the recently innovated hardware portfolio and the application architecture of the comprehensive, high-performance SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.0 process control system. A big plus: customers can optimally balance investment protection and expertise with the advantages of the new system.

We’re looking at a seemingly state-of-the-art control room. The entire room is bathed in dark blue. At the center of the image, three empty office chairs are placed in front of two large-format, wall-mounted displays showing screen contents from SIMATIC PCS neo.

Above all, new technologies are a means to an end

Prof. Leon Urbas (Professor of Process Control Technology at Dresden Technical University) and Eckard Eberle (CEO Siemens Process Automation) discuss the use of innovative concepts and technologies in the process industry in general, and SIMATIC PCS neo in particular.

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Contact This is process control today. And tomorrow - Learn about the enormous potential of SIMATIC PCS neo, and how you can use Siemens process control to lay the foundation for your lasting success.