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Control and operate for discrete industries

For a company to make fast and targeted decisions, the relevant data needs to be available and comprehensible at all times. With our control and operate solutions for discrete industries, you’ll get the tools you need to save time and boost productivity thanks to homogeneous visualization.

Challenge

Is your control and operating system flexible enough to meet your company’s requirements?
With digitalization, a growing variety of systems, programs, and data formats is finding its way into production and the IT world. Different user interfaces, separate databases, and a lack of analysis tools increase the effort required for diagnostics, evaluation, familiarization, and operation. The solution is homogeneous visualization and operation – from production to management.

Solution

Save time and boost the productivity of your production facilities.
A single, scalable solution for machines, lines, and entire plants unifies and standardizes operation and control. Important aspects here include homogeneous visualization, a shared database, traceability of production processes, and the ability to evaluate and analyze data.

Benefits

  • Boost productivity by reducing unplanned downtime and shortening planned downtime
  • Consistent visualization everywhere, from the shop floor to the top floor in every industry
  • Reduced complexity for control and operation and risk of operating errors
  • Simplified training, diagnosis and analysis
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How to get started

A single, scalable solution for machines, lines, and entire plants unifies and standardizes operation and control. Important aspects here include homogeneous visualization, a shared database, traceability of production processes, and the ability to evaluate and analyze data.

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Improve operator guidance

Targeted decisions need to be made in real time on all the levels of a company while isolated systems and extremely complex HMI solutions cause operating errors and high training costs. Critical details are difficult to recognize and locate especially for untrained or less qualified operators

To make quick and targeted decisions, all the stakeholders in a company need fast, device-independent access to production da

Get access to production data

For quick and targeted decisions, all the stakeholders in a company need fast, device-independent access to relevant production data with minimum administrative effort. Standardized dashboards must be easy to realize and adjustable flexibly.

Powerful analysis tools to identify the factors relevant to unnecessary downtime and to guarantee greater production availabi

Evaluate production data

Transparency is key to identify optimization potentials. Distributed, heterogeneous systems produce a large number of data in different silos and a variety of formats, making evaluation more difficult.

Powerful analysis tools to identify the factors relevant to unnecessary downtime and to guarantee greater production availabi

Track and trace your production

Safeguarding and improving production quality requires extensive tracking and tracing mechanisms in production. Quality verification in the form of a production report is now a standard requirement in almost all industries. in order to track who did what and when.

The integrated system diagnosis of SIMATIC components enables fast fault location.

Shorten downtime

Intuitive system and process diagnostics in real time are needed to shorten downtime. In critical situations, messages containing all the relevant details have to be forwarded to the responsible parties as quickly as possible.

Centralized recipe and order management without the need for an additional tool. Flexibly schedule and analyze shifts.

Planning and scheduling

With central calendar-based production planning, you can flexibly schedule and analyze shifts and compensate for holidays. Integrated recipe and order management allows you to plan orders using templates and change parameters as needed.

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Productivity

Boost your productivity by reducing unplanned downtime and shortening planned downtime. You can do this by speeding up troubleshooting and decreasing the response time of your maintenance staff.

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Transparency

Overall transparency and intuitive operation simplify control and operation and reduce the risk of operating errors.

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Operability

Consistent visualization across all levels of a plant simplify familiarization and training and the diagnosis and analysis of machines and their data.

Kickstart Control and Operation in discrete industries

Siemens’ supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) offerings support digital transformation, adapt flexible to growing demands and bridge the gap between automation OT and IT systems. Turn your data into valuable assets, increases efficiency and productivity while reducing costs to a minimum.

Case study

An Enterprise`s Digital Transformation

Huludao Longyuan Oil Equipment Co., Ltd

China

Upgrading the production line with a Siemens digital factory solution to gain real‑time visibility, intelligent analysis, and smarter operations. The project enables a quality analysis platform, precise production planning, cost‑saving refined reports, and a digital test and simulation environment.

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