Industrial operations and supervisory control

The digital transformation in industry opens up new opportunities and opens up untapped potential! Enhance industrial operations, turn your data into useful knowledge and bridge the gap between automation (OT) and IT systems to identify optimization potential and use resources more efficiently.

Typical challenges while choosing a new SCADA system

Supervisory control and operation - efficient industrial operations
The increasing complexity of production processes, the shortage of skilled workers meet the demand to improve productivity, quality, and profitability while keeping costs to a minimum. Over the entire life-cycle, adapting to new requirements due to digitalization of production processes or to meet government regulations is very challenging.Fast and targeted decision-making, anytime, anywhere and identify optimization potential of local or distributed systems must be adapted to the specific needs of discrete industries or infrastructure solutions.
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Data integration – scaling data driven operations
Combining information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT) enables a digital enterprise to connect and analyze information and thus also to improve operations. Combining these two areas in a comprehensive and scalable solution as part of the digital transformation is key to increase productivity, quality, and flexibility of your production and thus to leverage data across the product and production lifecycle.
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Know-how protection - secure data driven operations
Growing IT/OT integration and the utilization of the Internet of Things have many benefits like digitalized processes and cross-company collaboration in ecosystems. At the same time, they also increase the risk of cyber threats. With industrial cybersecurity, we enable the comprehensive protection of systems and plants.
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Benefits across the entire life cycle

Transparency

Turn operational data into actionable insights. Integrated analytics and a reliable data foundation enable real-time decision-making, helping uncover productivity potential and optimize resource utilization.

Availability

Boost operational reliability with SCADA systems designed for continuous availability. Redundant architectures and integrated diagnostics enable 24/7 monitoring, minimizing downtime and improving response times.

Flexibility

Meet evolving operational needs with adaptable SCADA systems. Flexible and open by design, they support everything from simple applications to complex distributed configurations and specialized environments.

Integration

Integrating OT & IT systems via numerous north- & southbound interfaces. They optimize information exchange via standards like MQTT/REST/GraphQL enabling advanced or AI-based analysis, for further insights and improved efficiency.

Search for solutions by industry

Make the digital transformation real for your production site or infrastructure solution. SIMATIC SCADA products offer the right solution for every industry.

Industrial machinery

Development and production of machines and their integration to production lines or plants must become more efficient and flexible while operation must be intuitive to use and easy to maintain.

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Machine transparency with SIMATIC HMI solutions and line control and operation with SIMATIC SCADA systems:

Efficient engineering to shorten time-to-market
Flexibiltiy to realize tailored solutions
Efficient engineering of distributed configurations
Homogenous operation concepts and modern UX design
Scalability and secure remote access anytime, anywhere
Connectivity via native, standardized or open interfaces
Productivity and reduced downtime due to comprehensive diagnostics
Modular automation for Plug and Produce

New coating line from Koenig & Bauer for coating metal sheets, developed together with technology partner indumate

Discover how others use this solution

A screen in a production site showing statistics and performance.

IHI Machinery and Furnace Co. Ltd.

Machine transparency enables optimization

As a top manufacturer of vacuum heat treatment equipment, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co. Ltd. proposes unprecedented value by utilizing digital solutions such as SIMATIC WinCC Unified, regardless of conventional thinking.

A worker zooming in on a design shown on the 49" screen of the printing press

Hinterkopf GmbH

Usability on a new level

One swipe or tap shows how the selected design will look on the can. A quick check and the process is ready to start. Innovative user guidance lets operators handle complex can printing with little to no training.

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SIMATIC WinCC systems fit every application and industry - highly scalable, open and extendable by options or Add-Ons. Optimizing industrial operations and OT/IT data integration for reliable, powerful or highly customized HMI and SCADA systems for discrete industries and infrastructure.

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WinCC Unified

SIMATIC WinCC Unified (TIA Portal) is the most cutting-edge system for Panel-, Edge-, and PC-based applications. WinCC Unified PC ranges from tailored machinery HMIs to complex (redundant) SCADA applications, ISA-88 batch and recipe control solutions up to a Data Hub as central long-term archive.