Management and quality assurance

Complete transparency throughout the machine park as the basis for optimizing plant productivity.

• Recording of downtimes, localizing causes and reasons for failure times, and monitoring of equipment efficiency.
• Decision making based on performance indicators.
• Global availability of information server reports means they can be used by different user groups.
• Recognition of production correlations by combining associated values with indicators such as material used. 

Servicing and maintenance

Support through cyclic and process-event triggered calculation of characteristics:

• Standardization of new plants by defining controller-based status information for key figure calculation
• Individual, targeted analysis using plant-specific performance indicators.
• Weak-point analysis in production processes and recording of undesirable process activities.
• Cause analysis by examining "drill down to operands" calculation basis.
• Identification of the events that lead to cost-intensive failures.

Line management and plant operator

The operator is always kept up-to-date by graphical display of the characteristics.

• Later modification of archived input values.
• Continuous information at the operator interface thanks to integration in the WinCC user interface.
• Alarm messaging of limit violations and trend recording through cyclic calculation of characteristics.
• Integration into the WinCC system means it is not necessary to train operating personnel
• Quick detection of weaknesses in the process using cyclic calculation of characteristics.  

WinCC Engineering

• Quick configuration of WinCC operator displays with WinCC and web-based reports from the Information Server.
• Minimal networking overhead by using the WinCC infrastructure in the local network as well as for the Internet.
• Short familiarization times and simple configuration using familiar tools for user interfaces and reports (WinCC, SIMATIC Information Server)
• Minimal configuration overhead due to the type-instance concept
• Minimal administrative overhead by using the WinCC infrastructure in the local network as well as for the Internet.

Highlights

Creation of performance indicators by the WinCC engineer with subsequent utilization by all user groups in the manufacturing company on WinCC stations or Internet clients.