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Tuesday 12 May

Creation of cause and effect tables for standard process control and safety systems is fairly standard, especially during the early engineering/automation design phase.  We will show you how these can be easily imported into PCS 7 Logic Matrix and Safety Matrix, as well as an introduction into these great toolsets.

The Cause & Effect Matrix

Live sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 12 May 

Thursday 21 May

SIMATIC PCS 7 has had a 'Web' option since V6 nearly 20 years ago, but never has this appeared more relevant than today, in these days of Social Distancing and Working from Home. Join this session to see how easy it is to set up the Web Client, and just how fully featured the user experience has become since its launch in 2003.

SIMATIC PCS7 Through the Web

Live sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 21 May

Tuesday 2 June

Condition Monitoring of equipment or mechanical assets, and Performance Monitoring against key indicators, can be just two different views of the same object. We will demonstrate the functions within Siemens’ DCS library that assist in transparent diagnosis and prediction of problems, in order to contribute to efficient operation of process plants.

Performance Monitoring in Process Automation live sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 2 June.

Friday 5 June

In this session we will look at what options are available for using Virtualisation in a PCS 7 solution, and consider the Pros & Cons of Physical vs Virtual.

Visualisation with PCS7 sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 5 June.

Monday 8 June

Efficient engineering design for Electrical, Instrumentation and Control equipment in a Process Plant is already available in COMOS.  Both COMOS integration layer and PCS 7 Process Automation Accelerator can instantiate all relevant equipment and instruments quickly within a  project.
We will walk you through hardware and software instantiation, and provide an insight into this great toolset.

Bulk Engineering with Process Automation Accelerator sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 8 June.

Thursday 11 June

The rate of change in the Process Automation space seems to be constantly accelerating - presenting challenges to users in terms of keeping track of their installed base, how to recognize the need for updates, and ultimately how to efficiently manage the roll out of new software. This sessions looks at how using the SIMATIC Management Console (SMMC) addresses this challenge.

DCS Inventory Management  SIMATIC Management Console (SMMC) sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 11 June.

Thursday 18 June

Complex process plants pose an enormous challenge to operating personnel. In most cases today, plant operators are much more than just classic process operators. To fulfill all their tasks reliably the operator requires optimised information presentation. In this talk we will look at the challenges faced by Operators, and show how Advanced Process Graphics, the integrated solution for PCS 7 helps to them to rise to them.

Supporting High Performance Operations - Advanced Process Graphics sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 18 June.

Wednesday 27 May

The process industry currently operates in a very complex environment, and the requirements for its control technology are equally as demanding. SIMATIC PCS neo is the intelligent response to this challenge: a fully web-based process control system with object-oriented data management. In this session discover the future of System Access and Usability with SIMATIC PCS neo.

System Access and Usability – Discover how with SIMATIC PCS neo sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 27 May.

Friday 29 May

The process industry currently operates in a very complex environment, and the requirements for its control technology are equally as demanding. SIMATIC PCS neo is the intelligent response to this challenge: a fully web-based process control system with object-oriented data management. In this session discover the future of Global Collaboration and System Scalability with SIMATIC PCS neo.

Collaboration and Scalability – Discover how with SIMATIC PCS neo sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 29 May.

Monday 11 May

Profinet has arrived for process automation. While Profinet has many benefits for plant automation and simplified connectivity, what are the real advantages with regards to instrumentation connectivity?  We look at a live TIA Portal project with HART and CFU remote IO. See how this data can be modelled in SIMATIC PDM Maintenance Station for use in IOT applications such as SITRANS SAM IQ

Remote Asset Management for Greenfield Sites

Live sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 11 May 

Monday 18 May

Like life, just because you are old doesn’t mean that you must miss out on the good things. The same is true for your plant. Without realising you have been installing smart instrumentation onto your site with digital communications. HART is vastly underutilised as a digital communication concept, with only 3% of the 80 million devices installed using more than just the 4-20mA signal. We look at remote connectivity with the RTU 3041 with HART IP and look at the new Namur Open Architecture (NOA) designed to connect standard HART devices to the IOT.

Remote Asset Management for Brownfield Sites

Live sessions tool place at 10am and 3pm on 18 May

Wednesday 10 June

Digitalisation starts in the field. Find out how you can get more from your smart instrumentation with a ProfiNet fieldbus using latest integrated HART functions and a decentralised approach enabling “plug and produce” functionality with Profibus PA devices.

Profinet - Making your Instruments Smarter sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 10 June.

Thursday 11 June

The rate of change in the Process Automation space seems to be constantly accelerating - presenting challenges to users in terms of keeping track of their installed base, how to recognize the need for updates, and ultimately how to efficiently manage the roll out of new software. This sessions looks at how using the SIMATIC Management Console (SMMC) addresses this challenge.

DCS Inventory Management  SIMATIC Management Console (SMMC) sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 11 June.

Wednesday 6 May

We see deep process knowledge in the form of predictive models, that are closely integrated within the automation system, as key to the next wave of digitalisation of operations in the process industries. The economics of such digital twin applications benefit significantly from re-using models that evolve over the plant lifecycle, incorporating knowledge and delivering value at every stage.

Intelligent Data Operations sessions took place on 6 May at 10am and 3pm

Thursday 14 May

Using simulation for Virtual Commissioning and Operator Training with SIMIT is an effective mean to increase the overall project efficiency and profitability, and is therefore a decisive competitive driver. SIMIT provides a large number of physics based models in order to design faster and easier simulations. SIMIT FlowNet and ChemBasic allows the simulation of pipe networks and ensures the plausibility checks of typical physical measurements, e.g. pressure, temperature and flow.

Physics-based modelling with SIMIT sessions tool place on 14 May at 10am and 3pm

Tuesday 19 May

Learn about the flexibility of ProfiNet in both Standard and Redundant configurations and take a look at the tools at our disposal to improve Engineering and operational efficiency. We will also discover a ReThink approach to panel design.

Best Practice - Profinet for the Process Industries

Live sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 19 May

Thursday 28 May

Take a “sneak peek” at the new SITRANS CC240 and Store IQ App from Siemens. See how intelligent HART data from your existing sensor can be connected to MindSphere all using the Namur Open Architecture (NOA).

Live Demo of new SITRANS CC240 NOA Device and MindSphere Connectivity sessions were held at 10am and 2pm on 28 May

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Wednesday 3 June

Automated creation of the SIMIT simulation model with COMOS planning and engineering data This TechTalks shows how to import COMOS planning data into SIMIT and automatically create your simulation model. This Optimized engineering workflow shortens commissioning times for new production lines and enables high-quality products on the market.

Automated creation of the SIMIT simulation model sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 3 June.

Monday 15 June

Understand why COMOS DDMS is much more than just a Document storage system and how a "single source of truth" approach towards data can help you to manage your operations and be audit ready, anytime.

COMOS Document & Data Management Solution - A single source of truth sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 15 June.

Tuesday 16 June

PlantSight allows you to make a better decision, enabling you to increase asset performance and reduce operating costs. One single and complete digital twin for everyone and for every discipline: maintenance, reliability, production, and more. Everything in real time, based on consolidated data from multiple sources. We will show you how this is possible.

PlantSight - increase asset performance and reduce operating costs sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 16 June.

Wednesday 17 June

The alarm system plays the critical role of alerting the plant operator of abnormalities that are a risk to profitable production and helping to quickly provide information that help to resolve the problem in time before any other protection systems activate.

How well this quick de-escalation of risks works depends on the quality of the alarm system.

Badly configured alarm systems increase the risk of inefficient production, quality reduction, increased abrasion or even unexpected shutdowns.

Discover Process Event Analytics (PEA), a new, intuitive, cloud based application that monitors and assesses DCS alarm systems to enable gain-oriented and objective performance improvement decisions without the need for manuals or training.

PEA combines advanced data-analytics with the known IEC62682 and EEMUA 191 standards in a cost-efficient MindSphere application, available through a flexible pay-per-use business model to optimize your alarm system. Join this session to find out how.

Alarm Management for your DCS - The new, intuitive, cloud based solution sessions took place at 10am and 3pm on 17 June.