APACS+ Integrated Automation Solutions
Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., helps manufacturers around the world in the chemical, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, oil & gas, refining, power, pulp & paper, and other industries to propel their businesses to new levels of success.
The cornerstone to this success is the APACS+ process automation system, which offers a unique blend of strengths that breaks through the compromises and constraints common to the other systems on the market.
These strengths include:
- Seamlessly integrated continuous control, batch control, and safety shutdown via a single set of tools that altogether eliminates the traditional engineering effort
- Commitment to reliability asevidenced by unprecedented system redundancy options and adherence to industry standards
- Proven installations and expertise around the world
- Truly open environment that reflects the company's unique business philosophy
- Flexible design and service options that cost-effectively adapt to a variety of application needs
- System architecture that is scalable from small to large without any discontinuity in hardware and software
- Tradition of innovation that fostered the first unified DCS/PLC and the first process automation system to provide a common environment for configuration, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and training
Together, these strengths define the uniqueness of the APACS+ process automation system.
Providing an Open Environment
For Siemens, openness is fundamental to the business philosophy. Providing real user choice-in everything from operator interface software to system integration services-drives the company's development. For project implementation, that means you can tap Siemens own engineering services department or combine it with certified third-party integrators and your own staff.
More importantly, because openness is the driving force, Siemens developed APACS+ to allow users to do much more than simply exchange data between dissimilar systems. APACS+ provides you the freedom to use the best products in their respective class, regardless of the manufacturer. It achieves this flexibility via extensive use of industry standards, including the IEC 61 131-3 standard for programmable controllers, OLE for Process Control (OPC), SQL database management, Ethernet networks, Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), and ActiveX®.
Integrated control and safety
In order to completely eliminate the need for custom integration between the control and safety systems, the QUADLOG® safety PLC(tm) was designed to communicate seamlessly with APACS+ and to share the same engineering tools. Users of APACS+ and QUADLOG enjoy a common control environment, use a single operator interface with no extra effort required, and easy data exchange between the systems, all while still safely isolating the safety system from the process control system.
Additional information is available in the Internet under:
http://www2.sea.siemens.com/Products/Process-Automation/Product/APACS/