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SIMATIC PCS neo: Completely web-based process control system

Control technology is a key lever for gaining a competitive edge in the process industry – and all the more so if it can meet the tremendous challenges of both today and tomorrow. If it's been completely rethought. Like SIMATIC PCS neo, the innovative ground-breaking process control system by Siemens. THINK neo.

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The process industry currently 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 fully web-based process control system with object-oriented data management.

SIMATIC PCS neo: a new world of process control

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.

Future of process automation In times when digitalization is rapidly spreading, those who cling to the status quo are losing out on tremendous potential for improving their own competitiveness. With SIMATIC PCS neo, companies are taking a major step toward the digital transformation which is crucial to future success.

THINK neo – a new world of process control

Be ready for the future already today: A future in which new opportunities are created through holistic efficiency gains. A future in which users in the process industries will enjoy intuitive usability. A future in which web-based collaboration is redefined. Experience what it means to rethink process control. Discover SIMATIC PCS neo.

neo System Access – Fast and secure

SIMATIC PCS neo gives your experts direct, round-the-clock access to engineering projects and operating processes. From anywhere, securely and with no installation work, via a secure Internet connection.

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neo Scalability – seamlessly scalable

SIMATIC PCS neo grows to meet your requirements. Upgrades and add-ons can be implemented seamlessly and during ongoing operation – quickly and securely.

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neo Usability – simple, intuitive operation

SIMATIC PCS neo proactively supports your operating personnel to make decisions in their daily work, and enables rapid analysis of process information as well as diagnosis of the automation system in engineering and in operation.

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neo Collaboration – global and web-based

SIMATIC PCS neo enables simple, efficient management of global project teams, including external sub-suppliers, across all disciplines.

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Future-oriented process control based on proven hardware

With SIMATIC PCS neo, Siemens is presenting a groundbreaking system software. For companies in the process industries, it opens up entirely new possibilities in the age of digitalization – such as global web-based collaboration in engineering and operations. The new system uses the recently innovated hardware portfolio and the application architecture of the comprehensive, high-performance SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.0 process control system. For its customers, Siemens thus optimally balances protection of investments and expertise with the advantages of the new system.

You’ll find out about this and much more in the interview conducted by Eckard Eberle (CEO of Processing Automation) with product manager Marco Nehmiz.

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Our experts showed you how SIMATIC PCS neo opens up a new world of process control with outstanding usability and efficiency.

Innovation in process control technology

In short: The added value the new system software specifically creates for users in the process industries.

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Efficiency in a new dimension

In a brief podcast, Manuel Keldenich summarizes the tremendous potential of SIMATIC PCS neo.

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The innovative hardware basis for the process industry 4.0: SIMATIC PCS 7 version 9

The proven and powerful SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system opens up new perspectives for a digital future through the innovative hardware platform of version 9.

SIMATIC PCS 7 Version 9 and SIMATIC PCS neo use the same application architecture and hardware portfolio. In this way, Siemens continues its traditions with all its innovative strength and takes important requirements into account: Securing existing know-how and investments that have already been made for the future.

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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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