Introduction

Drive Train Analytics can make a substantial contribution to optimization, and management of your drive train performance. The result is the optimal use of your equipment, the prevention of unplanned downtime, and more rapid response and mitigation of issues before serious damage occurs.

Drive Train Analytics is an essential element for today’s industries to meet the challenges of keeping their drives and rotating equipment running reliably. Information about operating status and data (e.g. voltage, current, log files, error logs) can be collected on variable frequency drives (VFDs). This information is transferred in near real-time through a secure connection to the Siemens Expert Center where it is further analyzed. Experts then provide fast, actionable predictive maintenance recommendations to resolve issues before they become a problem and cause any unscheduled downtime. A secure web portal provides access to dashboards, reports, and additional analysis from anywhere with an internet connection (PC, tablet, smartphone).

Challenge

Drive technology is considered the workhorse of your plant, often operating 24/7, in harsh conditions and over many years. Ensuring that

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your variable frequency drives continue to operate reliably is essential to meeting production and performance goals. If the unexpected occurs and your drive fails, every hour of downtime matters. You need to respond quickly, but emergency repairs can be costly and impact your maintenance budget. To reduce response time and stay within your budget, Siemens offers Automated Monitoring Services for our Perfect Harmony GH180 with NXG controller technology. With this service, our experts are notified immediately of the failure, receive failure logs to determine next steps and get your production back online sooner.

Our Solution

Siemens Automated Monitoring Services help to safeguard the continued availability of your Perfect Harmony GH180 drive with NXG controller. The VFD continuously sends critical drive performance information securely to the Siemens Expert Center including, operating status parameters, fault-, parameter-, historic-, and event-log. User-friendly dashboards can be accessed 24/7 via web portal to gain round-the-clock visibility of drive operation and status from any location. In the event of a drive fault, the system immediately sends a notification, including the drive data logs, to Siemens experts, allowing for faster troubleshooting, issue resolution, and a shorter Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).

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Security Features

Ensuring the safety of your plant’s data against the potential risks of cyber-attacks is one of our key priorities. Siemens offers a unique value for our customers in this area by combining our expertise in drive technology and understanding of the unique needs for cyber security protection in production environments. Our Automated Monitoring Service for Perfect Harmony includes the following specific security features

• Serial data transfer from drive Data from the drive is gathered through the serial port (RS232). This connection does not allow any remote control through the Automated Monitoring Service

• Whitelisting The Siemens Industry Computer (IPC) is pre-installed and complemented with whitelisting software that hardens the BIOS and the installed programs preventing any unauthorized user access or changes.

• Locked cabinet Siemens provides a cabinet for the IPC and related hardware components that can be locked to prevent any unauthorized physical access to the computer.

• Encrypted data transfer to Siemens Expert Center The data is transferred from the onsite IPC to the Siemens Expert Center via ISB (Industry Service Backbone) agent. The ISB client that is installed on the IPC bundles the data and sends it SSL encrypted via HTTPS to the ISB server at the Expert

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Center. This allows for a very simple and secure firewall configuration.

• One way communication All communication is always initiated from the onsite IPC. This prevents any attempt to access the IPC from any outside location. Likewise, the Siemens Expert Center is not able to initiate a connection to the onsite IPC.

Customer Benefit

As a leading manufacturer of variable frequency drives, Siemens has in depth knowledge about installed assets and customer applications. Adding Siemens Train Analytics provides customers the benefits of:

• Transparency of operations through instant and remote availability of drive condition information at the highest level of data security

• Reduced downtime through faster response times in case of a failure especially if the drive is installed in a remote location

When combined with our other predictive services for monitoring rotating equipment, we can help you improve maintenance management and reduce service expenses through condition based reliability programs powered by world class analytics. Let Siemens help you prepare for the industrial plant of the future – call today to learn how.