SIMATIC PCS 7 Safety

Why SIMATIC PCS 7 Safety?

SIMATIC PCS 7 Safety provides reliable protection for people, plant facility assets and the environment — key performance factors for functional safety in the process industry. A comprehensive approach from Siemens helps shape and refine relevant safety guidelines and regulations and provides optimum support for the safe operation of plant processes. It helps you to implement sophisticated strategies for plant reliability, availability, asset maintenance and safety.

The SIMATIC S7 Safety Matrix, which consists of the Safety Matrix Engineering Tool and the Safety Matrix Viewer, is a holistic approach to functional safety in accordance with IEC 61511, supporting the full safety lifecycle — from analysis to implementation to operation and maintenance.

Key benefits

Strengthen safety and operational continuity

Improve plant reliability, availability and protection of people and assets with a functional safety approach aligned to IEC 61511 and fully integrated into your process automation strategy.

Reduce engineering and lifecycle costs

The SIMATIC S7 Safety Matrix streamlines all phases of the safety lifecycle, reducing CAPEX and OPEX through simplified engineering, consistent documentation and efficient operation and monitoring.

Scale safety systems to your requirements

Choose interfaced, partly integrated or fully integrated safety architectures — each certified up to SIL 3 — to match your plant’s needs while supporting long-term flexibility and growth.

Featured capabilities

Seamless engineering and operation across SIS and BPCS

With SIMATIC PCS 7 engineering and operator stations, you can engineer, monitor and maintain safety and basic process control systems through a unified environment—even when using separate controllers.

FMR for tailored fault tolerance

Flexible Modular Redundancy (FMR) allows mixed redundancy levels within the same system, enabling SIL 3 architectures with less effort while giving operators freedom to scale performance, availability and cost.

Integrated hardware, software and fail-safe systems

PTI conducts studies for insulation coordination, surge arrester sizing and over-voltage protection. Experts evaluate SSR, SSTI and SSCI risks and recommend mitigation measures to safeguard equipment and improve grid reliability.