Totally Integrated Automation from Siemens

We at Automation24 recognize the value that digital solutions bring to the automation industry. As a result, we are excited to provide truly groundbreaking solutions from Siemens that can only be described as Totally Integrated Automation. Finally, manage your entire network of automation devices on one centralized platform. Whether it be device commissioning, program design, network structure, machine diagnostics, energy conservation, or productivity analysis, the TIA Portal gives you the ability to efficiently automate and streamline your operations.

Additionally, you can easily collaborate with your organization through Multi-user Engineering. Share projects and data with your entire team and customize access to allow only appropriate personnel access to critical functions. The decreased commissioning time experienced by having all devices and team members working together on one platform is invaluable.

The TIA Portal not only simplifies your current automation processes, but it opens up a whole new world of opportunities:

• Decrease commissioning time with customizable libraries
• Manage your operations from anywhere in the world with cloud interface communication
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize energy consumption with the SIMATIC energy suite
• Easily integrate existing PROFINET enabled devices
• Improve plant communication and security with OPC UA protocol
• Increase transparency with Multiuser Engineering capabilities
• Achieve scalability with program portability throughout the TIA product range
• Keep your finger on the pulse with integrated “no-program” diagnostics

Machine builders know that communication is a pillar of automation. Device communication is integral to the success of any machine or automation system, but can also be one of the most difficult aspects of commissioning. Many components use different communication protocols, and communications need to be translated between devices either with further hardware, software, coding, function blocks, or all of the above. The TIA Portal helps alleviate this burden by providing a space where all components on the TIA platform can be integrated and communicate with one another via PROFINET and Ethernet based communications. In addition to the cost savings provided by decreased commissioning time, this seamless communication allows the user to manage all of their data from one repository, eliminating the need to extract data from multiple sources.

The TIA Portal isn’t just helping devices efficiently communicate, it’s helping find better ways to share ideas and implement solutions thanks to the OPC UA (Open protocol communication – Unified architecture). With integrated security mechanisms and encryption combined with industrial Ethernet based communication, OPC UA merges the necessary cyber security you need to safely operate. The benefits of vertical communication and open device communication simplify your infrastructure. Whether it be integrated diagnostics reporting, productivity data, or machine conditioning, OPC UA communication allows you to securely access all of your data when and where you need it.

Automotive

• Decreased downtime with predictive diagnostics
• Real-time productivity analysis
• Seamless integration of multiple assembly line processes

Food and beverage

• Control and Monitor CIP and SIP processes via the web server
• Monitor critical temperature values from all devices on one platform
• Decrease transition time on machinery used for multiple recipes

Machine building

• Easily modify existing designs to fit new applications
• Provide added value to customers with web server functionality
• Save time and money with drag and drop functionality

Packaging

• Real-time mobile alerts for failure or condition changes
• Customized applications to easily control batches on equipment
• Intelligent control to sort products in processes with variable outcomes

TIA Platform with customizable design

Siemens understands that device implementation and identification on other platforms can be cumbersome. Whether your project is in the planning, design, or implementation stage, replacing a single component, or designing an entirely new system, the TIA Portal can improve engineering efficiency and lower design costs by up to 30%. Benefit not only from advanced communication tools, but from a platform interface that is designed with the sole purposes of maximizing efficiency and decreasing commissioning time.

Ways the TIA Portal reduces commissioning time:

• Customizable libraries
• Integrated “no-programming” diagnostics
• Multi-controller projects
• Multi-user engineering
• Pictorial device views
• Drag-and-Drop functionality
• Online editing