TIA PORTAL: GATEWAY TO AUTOMATION IN THE DIGITAL ENTERPRISE

One of the most popular of technologies within the industrial automation world is TIA Portal (Totally Integrated Automation). The TIA Portal is an unprecedented innovation in a world heading quickly towards automation, offering unrestricted access to Siemen’s range of automation services. The latest version of Siemens TIA is tailored perfectly for companies that have put Industry 4.0 on their radar.

This version of the TIA Portal introduces features that are essential for both, machine builders and system integrators, in order to maintain competence & competitiveness within the organization.

Shortened Time to Market

The ability to simulate machines can give a system integrator a greater sense of security and comfort, rather than dry running it after implementation. Thanks to PLCSIM Advanced within the TIA Portal, the entire installation (including the controller & HMI) can be simulated and evaluated, eliminating errors that would otherwise surface during implementation.

In addition, the TIA Portal allows for creation of projects using software generators, reducing redundancy within workflows. The user is provided with an option to generate logic through HMI visualization rather than programming. This has been made possible through software generators, energy management systems and plant diagnostic systems linked with the TIA Portal Openness interface. The Portal also makes use of a comprehensive library concept, through which the user can easily reuse all project objects, and avoid tangling up in redundant work.

 

 

Greater Flexibility

TIA understands the importance of user management, as it greatly influences an organization’s security and resource overheads. User management in the TIA portal is carried out through system-wide, central coherence, with the availability of extension to Windows Active Directories as well.

Integration of higher level ERP/MES solutions can be greatly uncomplicated if open communication can be introduced at the automation & IT level. TIA Portal follows the globally standardized OPC UA protocol, letting you forward production data to systems of other manufacturers. Bidirectional communication can be carried out without the need for any programming work as well by engaging the Industrial Data-Bridge.

Increased Productivity

Using the TIA Portal, you can swiftly integrate all vital aspects of your automation projects such as control, safety, drives, HMI, and now even motion control & power distribution. Your engineering team’s productivity is raised greatly due to the shared database and a standardized interface.

The TIA Portal is truly smart, and helps you make the right decisions, quickly. Data can be prepared according to specific target groups with the SIMATIC Information Server, locally as well as on a mobile device when in the field. The system supports WinCC/WebUX as well as WebNavigator to ensure support for both remote access and control.

SIMATIC’s Energy Suite also comes integrated within the TIA Portal, and can help you get a thorough understanding of the energy costs, at all times. The suite follows ISO 50001, and provides a transparent way to cut down inefficiency.

Several diagnostic tools as well as cyclic system recordings are available to the user through which errors can be eliminated reliably, well before commissioning.

Interested in getting your workforce upskilled in the requisite knowledge of TIA Portal, connect with a Siemens Authorized Training Partner today. Contact GIL Automations at (fill in our details here) with our state of the art simulation room and industry standard equipment and facilitators, we can get your people up to speed on the latest in the world automation.

 

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