Safety Integrated for optimum process safety

The scalable safety portfolio follows a holistic approach and covers all requirements: from individual solutions to system solutions fully integrated in the SIMATIC PCS 7 distributed control system. The following configurations are distinguished:

• Interfaced – connection of the safety system (SIS) to any control system (BPCS)
• Partly Integrated – separate controllers for SIS and BPCS, but integrated engineering (SIMATIC PCS 7 ES) and operation and monitoring (SIMATIC PCS 7 OS)
• Fully Integrated – common controllers for SIS and BPCS and integrated engineering (SIMATIC PCS 7 ES) as well as operation and monitoring (SIMATIC PCS 7 OS)

In all these configurations, the system is certified for safety applications up to SIL 3.

Flexible Modular Redundancy (FMR) represents a flexible, modular system structure with various redundancy options. That means error tolerance can be tailored to specific requirements quite independently of the architecture, since simple and double redundancies can be mixed and coordinated within a single system.

You can therefore specifically define the degree of redundancy in each case from the controller to the I/O devices and the bus system. For you that means, for example, that SIL-3 certification can be achieved with much less cost and effort than with a conventional structure. At the same time you gain flexibility, you can scale more quickly, and thus optimize your plant safety.

The fail-safe SIMATIC S7 F/FH system includes fail-safe controllers, bus systems and I/O peripherals as well as, in an extended sense, fail-safe instrumentation. The standard and safety program is created in the proven SIMATIC Manager – with or without SIMATIC PCS 7 – within the CFC Editor.

This means that you benefit from significantly reduced training and education efforts and efficient engineering. For additional convenience and even more efficiency during engineering and later during operation and monitoring, the SIMATIC S7 Safety Matrix is available to you.