Electricity + Control July 2015

CONTROL SYSTEMS + AUTOMATION

ROUND UP

Long-term investment protection for companies

Siemens continues to develop its controller portfolio to handle sophisticated tasks in the process industry. Users of the flexibly configurable controllers, which offer a high level of security and avail- ability, will therefore benefit from long-term investment protection. The first step was to give the Simatic S7-410 the standard coating

for operation in toxic atmospheres and to further increase the fault tolerance of the redundant system. Siemens has also extended the ambient temperature range up to 70 °C, which allows users to deploy the powerful Simatic PCS 7 controller in harsh environments, such as in oil and gas applications. The next steps will be, for example,

to further expand the Profinet functional- ity in order to increase fault tolerance and availability. The Simatic S7-410 controller is an integral part of the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 process control system and currently the most power- ful controller in the process industry.This is particularly obvious in the integrated scaling feature: it is now possible to apply a uniform hardware and software environment for very small systems of 100 I/Os up to large-scale plants of more than 100 000 inputs/outputs. The Simatic S7-410 controller is available in a standard version as well as in fault tolerant and fail-safe versions. The device therefore meets all the requirements of the process industry, including the chemical, glass, metal, food and beverage, Enquiries: Keshin Govender. Email Keshin.govender@siemens.com