How does COMOS help implement modularized engineering?
Smart templates: COMOS makes it possible to consistently implement modularized engineering for all disciplines – from proposal preparation and engineering to project completion. Smart modules enable a high degree of bidding and planning flexibility; customer requests can be individually and precisely implemented, which can significantly reduce over- and under-engineering.
Configurator made for consistency: The configurator in COMOS allows you to create and apply standardized smart templates for fast and efficient work – all without complex programming. Any interactive plan types such as piping and instrumentation diagrams, as well as technical specifications and part lists, are generated on the basis of variant drivers. Smart templates can be re-used for subsequent engineering and recalculations.
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What benefits does COMOS provide as a data and document management system (DDMS)?
Always in compliance: Safety and compliance workflows, approval processes and data mapping are always in compliance thanks to integrated electronic data and document management. The pharmaceutical industry, as well as other industries such as food and beverage, can comply with strict national and international authorities, such the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Easy from the get-go: As early as the design and engineering phase, the software generates the necessary document structure based on standardized templates. The uniform database and rigorous object orientation ensure high data quality and consistency, which in turn significantly simplifies compliance management.
Seamless documentation: The consistency of blueprint and plant, as well as material and supplier specifications, can be easily checked, while the test results of the operational qualification can be documented, archived and retrieved. All processes are optimally mapped and the seamless documentation guarantees a minimal error rate. Automatically generated maintenance schedules also permit efficient plant supervision.
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How does COMOS support intelligent mobile maintenance?
COMOS Mobile Worker offers:
Integration for everywhere: The integrated COMOS mobile solution and the COMOS MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) module provide a single system for the management, planning and organization of operation and maintenance, including plant documentation. Maintenance orders can be efficiently processed, data and documents can be viewed and edited on site, and even redlining can be performed directly in the field.
Maintenance maximized: COMOS enables a bidirectional data exchange between the central database and mobile terminals via the Asset Information Management System. This allows plant maintenance personnel in the chemical, pharmaceutical and oil and gas industries to efficiently process maintenance orders, record error messages and create immediate documentation.
Full transparency: Events can be assigned to individual components at different priority levels, providing service specialists with a complete picture of the situation in the plant. Plant documentation can be continuously updated and feedback from the field is immediately available to all COMOS users.
Real-time data: The COMOS Mobile Worker eliminates time-consuming post-processing steps and related errors thanks to a server solution that combines the data from individual sources. Whether relying on Siemens tools such as the COMOS CAE system or third-party systems, the server combines photos, 3D models of pumps, videos and more to assist employees in the field.
Easier finding: The augmented reality and navigation function of the COMOS Mobile Worker enables the field worker to easily find field devices and problem sources. The field worker knows device location and the fastest route, ensuring maximum efficiency and reduced errors.
Fast bidirectional exchange: COMOS Mobile Worker enables the efficient replacement of a component, such as a pump, based on a detailed maintenance workflow plan. The employee acknowledges each specified step and, when completed, signals back that the pump has been replaced. The bidirectional mode of operation ensures that the current status is correctly documented at all times and makes it easier to prepare for audits.
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How does COMOS leverage smart data for brownfield plants?
Digitalizing brownfield plants: Customized solutions for brownfield enablement allow data to be centrally managed, which improves maintenance planning and accelerates recommissioning. The object-oriented data model and open system architecture make it possible to easily import data and documents (1D/2D/3D) from the engineering and operating phases to the plant lifecycle management system at any time.
From data to the digital twin: Smart underlying data can be created from all types of documents, including image files and PDFs. For example, innovative techniques can be used to record and digitalize an up-to-date image of the plant based on drone images or laser scans. This lays the groundwork for the digital twin, which makes the conversion or expansion of existing plant sections more efficient.
Fast recommissioning, increased productivity: Using one central platform, newer plants can operate more efficiently while older plants can be reliably modernized. COMOS immediately indicates inconsistent data and compares the plant’s “as-designed” state with its “as-built” state.
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