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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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Process Control System 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-oriented process control technology 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.

Premiere At this year’s Hannover Messe, the Siemens booth was once again an absolute hotspot. One of the highlights presented was the first public showing of our pioneering process control system.

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Presentation of the innovative, web-based process control technology live on stage at the Open Space Forum.

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

We see Manuel Keldenich standing at the Siemens Hannover Messe exhibition booth.

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

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 technology. Discover SIMATIC PCS neo.

Simple, intuitive operation – for greater efficiency in everyday work

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. A consistent, end-to-end workbench for all tasks and an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) ensure unprecedented usability on both fixed and portable devices.

Seamlessly scalable – from simple applications to systems on a global scale

Whether you need to control small dedicated applications or a major process installation with millions of I/O: SIMATIC PCS neo grows to meet the requirements. Upgrades and add-ons can be implemented seamlessly and during ongoing operation – quickly and securely.

Fast, secure data access – regardless of time or place

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. Every member of the project always works in real-time on the same database according to their tasks and within the framework of authorization and role management.

Global web-based cooperation in engineering and operations – perfectly network and in parallel

SIMATIC PCS neo enables simple, efficient management of global project teams, including external sub-suppliers, across all disciplines. The basis for this is data management that is always consistent, providing object-oriented integration of information from a broad range of sources in different formats and regardless of location.

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.

A strong basis for the future

The process control system SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.0 opens up new perspectives in process automation – paving the way for plant-wide digitalization in the process industry.

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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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Cyber security in the age of digital transformation

Merle Maigre (former Director of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence) talks about IT security measures with respect to the digital transformation.

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Digitalized bio production

Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd. impressively demonstrates the possibilities opened up by digital production: in its plant in Wusu, China, the company relies on renewable raw materials instead of oil in its polymer production.