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Dear Readers, Dear COMOS Customers,

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Editorial

Did you visit us last autumn at the SPS IPC Drives exhibition? If you did, we would like to thank you for helping make the exhibition a success for us! But if you weren't able to make it to Nuremberg, in April at the Hannover Messe trade fair, you'll have another opportunity to experience our amazing integrated plant management solution!

Siemens' motto at the SPS exhibition was "From Integrated Engineering to Integrated Opera-tion – Discover the Potential of Digitalization". The impressive plant models and customer examples Siemens had on display was more than enough to convince visitors that, at Siemens, digitalization has long ceased to be merely a vision. We clearly showed the inter-ested visitors the many advantages that the

merging of the real and virtual worlds offers: more productivity, more flexibility and higher efficiency. However, more than anything else, we succeeded in demonstrating this in a very concrete way using specific products and so-lutions, emphasizing the key role that COMOS plays in this process. We clearly sparked the interest of exhibition visitors, so we are really optimistic and excited, as we look forward to the Hannover Messe trade fair!

Feedback in Nuremberg from visitors was consistently positive, both for specific COMOS subjects as well as for overarching ideas such as Integrated Engineering, where we shared exhibits with the colleagues from SIMATIC PCS 7.

In this edition of COMOS Plant Manager, learn more about where our strengths lie, and explore reference examples in places ranging from Switzerland to Sweden.

Regardless whether it is about successful customer projects around the world or fasci-nating discussions at the exhibition booth – we enjoy grappling with the future of plant management and digitalization! And in the process, to continue to position COMOS as technology leader, we believe in an intensive exchange with you – our readers, customers and anybody with an interest! So visit us at the HMI 2016 in Hannover!

Yours sincerely,Andreas Geiss

Andreas GeissVice President COMOS Industry Solutions

Food & Beverage Reference DSM

Plant Engineering Reference Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery

COMOS iDBFit for the future

COMOS Smart ServicesPart 1

Exhibition previewHMI 2016

Edition March 2016

COMOS Plant ManagerCOMOS – Making data work.

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Dear Readers, Dear COMOS Customers,


Editorial

Did you visit us last autumn at the SPS IPC Drives exhibition? If you did, we would like to thank you for helping make the exhibition a success for us! But if you weren't able to make it to Nuremberg, in April at the Hannover Messe trade fair, you'll have another opportunity to experience our amazing integrated plant management solution!

Siemens' motto at the SPS exhibition was "From Integrated Engineering to Integrated Opera-tion – Discover the Potential of Digitalization". The impressive plant models and customer examples Siemens had on display was more than enough to convince visitors that, at Siemens, digitalization has long ceased to be merely a vision. We clearly showed the inter-ested visitors the many advantages that the

merging of the real and virtual worlds offers: more productivity, more flexibility and higher efficiency. However, more than anything else, we succeeded in demonstrating this in a very concrete way using specific products and so-lutions, emphasizing the key role that COMOS plays in this process. We clearly sparked the interest of exhibition visitors, so we are really optimistic and excited, as we look forward to the Hannover Messe trade fair!

Feedback in Nuremberg from visitors was consistently positive, both for specific COMOS subjects as well as for overarching ideas such as Integrated Engineering, where we shared exhibits with the colleagues from SIMATIC PCS 7.

In this edition of COMOS Plant Manager, learn more about where our strengths lie, and explore reference examples in places ranging from Switzerland to Sweden.

Regardless whether it is about successful customer projects around the world or fasci-nating discussions at the exhibition booth – we enjoy grappling with the future of plant management and digitalization! And in the process, to continue to position COMOS as technology leader, we believe in an intensive exchange with you – our readers, customers and anybody with an interest! So visit us at the HMI 2016 in Hannover!

Yours sincerely,Andreas Geiss

Andreas GeissVice President COMOS Industry Solutions

Content

04 COMOS Mobile Solutions – The solution for major plant projects

06 Food & Beverage: Reference DSM Database-supported tools at DSM

11 NEWS COMOS iDB, COMOS Smart Services,

part 1, HMI 2016, Tips and Tricks – ask Doc COMOS, Event Calendar

In this issue you can read about:

08 Plant Engineering: Reference Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Integrated engineering environment for managing entire project lifecycles


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Working in a global networkCOMOS Mobile Solutions – The solution for major plant projects

The COMOS Mobile Solutions product family from Siemens provides the foundation for worldwide networking when it comes to man-aging projects in the process industry. With the help of Web-based services and mobile devices such as tablets, everybody involved has anytime-anywhere access to all essential and current project and plant data. This could not be more important, considering that each individual needs to obtain and work on their own specific data and documents and these must be available through secure access points and it also has to be possible to display them graphically. These key factors will make work-ing in a global network possible and also the associated project management tasks to a complete success.

… for a user-oriented approach

Everyone involved in a project –whether from the purchasing or operations department, or as engineer or external auditor – needs access to the latest documents. Quite often, Share-Point Services from Microsoft are the most widely used solution. With the help of COMOS Mobile Document View, COMOS makes it pos-sible to display documents from a COMOS database directly in a SharePoint. To achieve this, it is possible to configure read-only per-missions in the central database and to index documents for a specific user-group. These are then grouped together through a Share-Point interface. Users benefit from up-to-date documents, in addition to revision history and full text search through the library. This

The foundation ...

As a software solution for holistic plant man-agement throughout the entire lifecycle of industrial plants, COMOS is a leader in the market. With the Web-based COMOS Mobile Solutions, the software is even more flexible and powerful than ever before. All applications – whether developed for tablet or browser operation – are based on the COMOS Web Server, which makes high-performance data ac-cess via Internet possible. For individual appli-cations it acts as interface to the stationary COMOS database, and can be accessed via encrypted SSL connection (Secure Socket Layer) and VPN (Virtual Private Network). All COMOS Mobile Solutions differentiate them-selves intuitively for designed interfaces, which are effectively self-explanatory, leaving the user more time to concentrate on what is im-portant.

makes it easy to integrate internal as well as external employees into projects, even if they do not have any engineering experience. They can view the information from within their own familiar work environment, without the necessity of redundant data management.

It is also capable of being even more specific: With the help of COMOS Mobile Document Review, each user receives information that is tailor-made for them, instead of having to rely on documents tailored to a group, in read-only mode. For iPads COMOS Mobile Document Review is available as app, which can be used to work on the documents. This solution speeds up approval procedures, as it allows technical decision-makers and senior engineers or ma-

When it comes to major projects the challenges facing the process industry include: the networking of international project teams, making it possible for them to work anywhere in the world at any time, and reliably integrating external suppliers. To meet these challenges, help can be found in a Web-based solution that offers a general and high-availability data management for all user groups.


COMOS Mobile Solutions

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nagers to view, check and approve documents, independent of time and location. Users are supplied with documents and messages direct-ly from the fixed COMOS installation. Before sending, the system checks whether the reci-pient possesses the right level of permissions for editing the documents. After logging in via tablet, the competent user finds all files in his device’s inbox. On the iPad the user can add comments, notes, redlining or photos, and then either send them back to the COMOS database directly or forward them to an email recipient. The interesting thing here is that the work can also be done offline. With an online connection the inbox and outbox are automa-tically updated; i.e. new documents are recei-ved or edited documents sent. In other words, time spent without a connection, such as during a flight or on a train, is still productive!

Lean Web-based solutions ...

To efficiently commission equipment or carry out maintenance work, up-to-date project and plant data are essential. With COMOS WebView this data can be accessed on mobile devices using a conventional Web browser. Users can read values, figures, queries, reports or docu-ments. Regardless of their location, authenti-cated users can access shared data including working layers and revisions of documents or of pre-defined queries. COMOS users, such as process engineers or automation technicians, can therefore be efficiently integrated into projects in the course of their operations throughout the plant. They can quickly access all the data they need directly at the plant component and complete their work faster

and more reliably.

… provide additional (value added) ways to work together

The newest member of the product family, COMOS WebPQM, also allows data to be changed, documents to be checked in and out, and revision steps to be approved – also using a Web browser. Despite offering these comprehensive features, this solution is a very lean application that is intuitive to use. Engineering data is edited online using the browser in a form-based method. Editing the pertinent attributes via the Web, such as the hourly flow rates of a pump or its connec-tions, is granted once centrally by the COMOS administrator. This way, logged in users who are authorized, can easily and securely input the data they must deliver, directly into the database. Multiple suppliers can therefore be securely and conveniently integrated into a COMOS project with minimum license costs. Sending documents or manually comparing data is not necessary anymore. This means that all of the methods which have been required until now, such as mass exports of data, the transfer of data in Excel files, or doc-ument exchange via email, are not required any longer. All project members can work using one single, consistent data foundation. This speeds up work processes, prevents errors and redundant input, and ensures consistent and reliable data handling. Furthermore, constant traceability and documentation of all changes is guaranteed – a fundamental requirement when it is necessary to comply with strictly regulated procedures, such as those in the pharmaceutical industry. Every

single check and approval step in revision work is always seamlessly documented and can be quickly achieved via a secure Internet connection.

A constant eye on project progress

With the help of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which you define, project progress can be displayed very clearly on dashboards in COMOS WebPQM. Questions about tasks yet to be completed, milestones completed error-free, or outstanding approvals, can be answered at a glance. The progress of work can be displayed either on the individual level or for the project as a whole. That makes this function just as valuable for project members as for project heads or business operators. The task manage-ment functionality contributes to workflow optimization: It supplies user-specific task lists from which subsequent work steps can be di-rectly derived. Documents which are ready for approval are presented just as clearly as work that has yet to be done. That helps to keep project workflows going on and so accelerates overall planning procedures. So-called Quick-links allow users to jump directly to the tasks to be worked on and to relevant information. «

COMOS Mobile Solutions info box

• Mobile data management via tablets and Web-based access to relevant plant and project information, anytime and anywhere

• Easy and intuitive to use, with secure access

• COMOS Mobile Document View for direct document viewing

• COMOS Mobile Document Review for efficient document management via iPad

• COMOS WebView for read-only access to COMOS data and documents via Web browser

• COMOS WebPQM for improved team-work, task management and the perfect overview of current project status at all times



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COMOS – Vitamin C for data and information management

The Dutch company DSM is one of the most prominent world manufacturers of dietary supplements and additives for animal feed. DSM's largest production site is located in Sisseln, Switzerland, where vitamins A and E are produced. The vitamin E plant is one of the key plants in Sisseln, and it was the first major plant at which the electrical engineering and automation were planned using COMOS. Thanks to this project from 2004, named the Vitex project, DSM was able to further strengthen its leading position in the vitamin E market.

responding library created. At the beginning everyone involved underwent training and an application manager was assigned. Further-more, associated requirements specifications were prepared and also implemented in COMOS. "There is no question that we took a certain risk when we introduced COMOS for this im-portant project, but the risk paid off," says Beck. "Our team and the engineering partners, who were very skeptical to start with, ultimately came to the conclusion that we would not have completed the project so successfully without a database-supported engineering tool."

COMOS as guarantee for success

The production plant was equipped with the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system and the goal was to complete the planning for this major project on schedule. To do this it was essential that several teams work on the project simultaneously. Niklaus Beck, who was respon-sible for automation in the Vitex project, and his team decided that everyone involved in the planning for the electrical and automation engineering should work with the same tools in COMOS. To achieve this objective, the soft-ware was, in collaboration with the system integrator Actemium, standardized and a cor-

Database-supported tools at DSM

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Up to day it has proven its worth many times over

Not only did the use of COMOS guarantee the success of the one-time Vitex project, it also represented the beginning of a series of deploy-ments of this database-supported engineering tool. The use of COMOS to run the vitamin E plant proved its worth, and even today after ten years, this plant still represents an essential pillar of DSM's production. Processes were and still are being constantly optimized, result-

ing in increasing plant efficiency. Additionally, the degree of automation is constantly being increased, leading to a reduction in the amount of manual work involved in the overall process. All of these changes are entered into COMOS, providing a standardized database, which can be drawn upon at every step: from maintenance through optimization and automation, right through to the planning of new systems.

In DSM's Nutritional Products department, COMOS is used to look after and further devel-op the project tools for the plant systems, and is constantly being developed in collaboration with Siemens, parallel to standards and librar-ies. This guarantees the optimization of pro-cesses and the efficient management of doc-umentation and information. Today, COMOS is used to plan piping and instrumentation as well as the electrical engineering. As the proven planning tool that it is, for four years, only COMOS has been used to plan new plant sys-tems. In collaboration with Siemens, DSM developed an interface to the former planning system to migrate its existing data, so it was possible to safeguard and reuse valuable know-how, without manual re-entry. "For the migration work we developed clear criteria concerning from which date the data must be moved to COMOS. Ultimately, we want, if possible, all documents to be available in COMOS, but naturally we have to keep an eye on the associated work involved too. Our migration strategy ensures that there is a good balance between cost and benefit for each modernization project," summarizes Niklaus Beck.

Engineering and more

As far as engineering goes, COMOS led to an improvement in quality and more efficient implementation of projects. However it is not only the engineering itself that benefits from COMOS. For Thomas Müller, Head Tools and Document Management, it is clear: "In partic-ular with regard to applications in the areas of pharmaceuticals and food, we have to make sure that our data is entered and kept available in accordance with GMP guidelines. In some cases we have to maintain the exact same information and data at 20 different locations – in the engineering system, in the production information management system, and so on – that just cannot be done without a standardized tool. For maintaining process data and plant documentation COMOS is a real help, and furthermore, it provides for employees in plant operations a practical and reliable solution for accessing the relevant data and information.” «

Thomas Müller

Head of Tools and Documentmanagement , DSM Nutritional Products GmbH

”In particular with regard to applica-tions in the areas of pharmaceuticals and food, we have to make sure that our data is entered and kept available in ac-cordance with GMP guidelines (...) that just cannot be done without a standard-ized tool.“



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Integrated engineering environment for managing entire project lifecycles

Turbine manufacturer can turn it up to full power

Björn Axelsson works at Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery (SIT) in Finspång, Sweden. He bears primary responsibility for the use of COMOS at SIT and has been working since 2007 with the integrated software solution from Siemens, after its introduction to the Swedish company in 2006. A large part of his work consists of coordination and direction of projects related to COMOS. "We're working with a very complex business and IT environ-ment in which we have to link different sys-tems, so we have to have all the stakeholders onboard – the key users just as much as the management level. On top of that, we are currently working on new applications and tools," he explains.

If salespeople could discuss the latest drawings and models of a complex plant section on the computer already during the planning phase with their customers, or if all engineering and developer teams could work simultaneously on a project, or if documentation was simply generated incidentally throughout and beyond the project period, it would almost sound like an old sailor's yarn. But for the Swede Björn Axelsson, such things are a matter of course. However, he is not a sailor, but an engineer, and his tales are based on facts.

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Plant Engineering: Reference Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery

Recognized signs of the times ...

SIT develops, produces, markets and maintains gas turbines besides building entire power plants for customers worldwide. Turbines generate electricity, steam and heat or they are used to drive pumps and compressors in the oil and gas industry. It became clear already in 2004 that customer expectations were changing: They wanted shorter project delivery deadlines and even better quality data in the early project phase, but also at the time of delivery. Axelsson confirms that customers want to see what it is that they are buying – not just a general drawing from a catalog, but the genuine project, and they want to see it

Employee in front of turbine, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery

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The integrated engineering that was introduced with COMOS has also opened up new forms of collaboration for SIT: "Within their engineering environments, process and electrical engineers all have access to the same objects, so teams working at different locations can collaborate together on one project. This makes it possible to improve how the workload is distributed among the teams, and each site can contribute their best capabilities to a project. COMOS also functions as knowledge pool for all the teams," he explains. «

at the time of the initial meetings, before the project is awarded. "And they want this quality and precision of project data throughout all phases of the project, which means that elec-tronic documentation must be used instead of traditional paper files," he says. For SIT it meant that efficient tools had to be implement-ed to plan and manage all project data. Back then, various systems were examined and compared. It was clear from the outset that SIT needed more than simply an application to produce the drawings and designs. In order to work more efficiently throughout all project phases, a software system was sought that would be able to integrate all the different fields of engineering and provide one single access point for all project data. "On top of that, the solution had to be open and flexible. COMOS offered us the most convincing solu-tions for all these requirements," resumes Axelsson.

… and bet on the right horse

Today at SIT, roughly 700 users work with COMOS at four locations in Europe. The solu-tion is comprised of a COMOS platform for data management, COMOS Process for plant engineering, COMOS Automation for the electrical, instrumentation and control engi-neering, and COMOS Lifecycle for information management over the entire project lifecycle. Axelsson emphasizes that COMOS has become one of the most important tools for projects at SIT. "We use it in all project phases and it has changed the way we work. We can build up know-how with it, implement and deliver projects faster, and also enhance project

quality," he says. "It also alleviates work to-gether with customers, partners and suppliers." Throughout it all, COMOS is much more than merely an engineering tool, it is extremely useful already while developing the project: The offer and order documents are prepared according to the project standards, and then adapted to customer-specific requirements. If necessary, this can be done virtually with the components available in COMOS, so the teams can already present a very detailed solution at a very early stage of the project. As soon as the job is awarded, setting up the project is now much easier than it used to

be, because it is possible to use the same data. This speeds up processes right from the outset. Now, engineers don't have to grapple anymore with the general structure, rather they can jump right into the customer-specific require-ments: "This means we can work faster and utilize the expertise of our teams much better than before. Since we have to deliver one project a week on average, we need tools that make our teams more efficient and that reduce the routine work and controls as much as pos-sible," says Axelsson.



Impressions of the SIT Production Plant in Finspång, Sweden

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”We use COMOS in all project phases and this changed the way we work. We can build up know-how with COMOS, implement and deliver projects faster, and also enhance project quality“

Björn Axelsson, COMOS Tool Owner

this has been achieved in full. Axelsson con-firms that feedback has been very positive from users and management alike. The company has acquired noticeable advantages in key aspects such as project delivery deadlines, engineering quality, and efficiency. As person responsible for the use of COMOS, Axelsson is looking forward to the future: "Each new project, each new team – yes, and even each new user – can add completely new possibilities. A large proportion of our work consists of listening to the expectations, problems and ideas of our users, and implementing them with COMOS." «

Exploit even more potential

With that, COMOS's potential at SIT is far from being exhausted: "We're working on a very ambitious business project in which we are not only slimming-down processes in engi-neering, but we also intend to improve our entire value-added chain," reveals Axelsson. "That's why we are integrating COMOS into our other IT tools, especially the Teamcenter." The project involves making improvements to the flow of data between the PLM level (product lifecycle management) and COMOS, and it began in 2009 as SIT implemented an interface that was to make the exchange and checking of documentation easier. Now the two systems also reconcile the data for mate-rial accounting, providing support for the

purchasing and inventory management de-partments. "Our goal is a fully-integrated environment, in which each of our tasks – engineering, control and approval, purchas-ing, service – must only be executed once and the data is automatically reconciled be-tween the different tools and systems. This also provides benefits for customers," he ex-plains: "Not only can we deliver all the project documentation in electronic form once a project is completed, we can also supply data on stocks of spare parts, service requirements, and much more."

The next big step is to set up a standardized collaboration platform for everybody involved in the project and value-added chain, so that suppliers, partners and customers can all ac-

cess the required information together in one single environment. The presentation of the data plays a key role here, too, which is why the use of COMOS Walkinside – the solution for creating and visualizing 3D virtual reality models – is currently being examined. "Natu-rally, we live in a world with three dimensions, and turbines are quite complex structures. It will be much easier to convey to our customers why our offer is superior if we are able to dis-play it in 3D," says Axelsson. "These models can also be used to train our service or opera-tor teams."

The original goal of SIT was to implement an integrated engineering environment as common access point to project data. With the current status of the COMOS solution,



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Ever since it was introduced with COMOS Ver-sion 10.1, the iDB has been the platform for all our future development measures. We will be developing new database functionality for iDB and cDB until 2016. Moreover, we will be providing support for cDB installations until the end of 2019. Nevertheless, it makes sense to switch over already today: With the iDB we have achieved another big step in the direction of standardization, harmonization and future security. Now all COMOS modules share a similar structure; operation is standardized across the board for all trades. This alleviates work and reduces the effort required for train-ing. Moreover, with iDB we have established a bridge between individualization and stan-dardization. On one hand, now companies have additional internal classification options

open to them, which increase the efficiency of database queries or document storage, for ex-ample. On the other hand, we have modified the database structure in such a way, that new COMOS releases can be integrated with hardly any work. In the process, we have kept the customer-specific and program-specific soft-ware areas strictly separated from one another.

To iDB in four steps

In order to convert existing cDB installations – i.e. COMOS systems with a version lower than 10.1 – to iDB, we have developed a standard-ized approach: With the COMOS "iDB transition check" Smart Service it is possible to take a complete inventory of the current state of your existing database even before the actual con-version process begins. Already beforehand, this provides you with detailed insight about the amount of work and the benefits involved in a switch to the iDB. Our experts will be happy to work with you to develop a migration plan, to determine the ideal moment to put the mi-gration process into effect.

Step 1: Global adaptations of your databaseFirst of all the database-wide settings in the user interface are worked on – language, units, IDs, etc.

Step 2: Import the iDB into your databaseThe database is updated by importing the entire iDB into a work layer of your database. In this step, your own master data and project data will not be changed at all.

Step 3: Migration of the system dataWe have programmed tools with which all system objects can be automatically brought right up to date: classifications, engineering types, connectors, etc.

Step 4: Migration of the master data and all customer-specific adaptationsFinally, we come to the last important step: adaption of the scripts, queries, reports, master objects, planning models, etc., so that they match the data structure of the iDB. In-dividualized scripts, for which standard solu-tions have been developed in the meantime, are replaced.

By request: Migration of planning projects

This step is important for operators, and involves making planning projects fit for embedding in the iDB. «

COMOS iDB Fit for the future

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Industrial DatabaseMigration – Concept

With COMOS Version 10.1 (which was introduced at the end of 2013), we established a common denominator in our database structure for all COMOS installations: iDB – the industrial database. In an increasing number of inquiries we are receiving, customers want to know if there is any way to make existing cDB installations (classic databases) fit for the future, to profit from current-day functionality. Naturally, we have developed the right strategy for this, which we are already putting to use at our customers.

Jan RougoorHead of Product Management, COMOS Industry Solutions

”We use the iDB to pro-duce short, medium and long-term benefits for our customers – switch-ing over is possible and sensible at almost any time.”


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COMOS Plant ManagerMarch 2016

PublisherSiemens AG Process Industries and DrivesProcess AutomationAutomation and EngineeringPD PA S AE MP Karl-Legien-Str. 190 D-53117 Bonn, Germany www.siemens.com/comos

COMOS Industry SolutionsVP Andreas Geiss

EditorMareike BlettnerVerena Wild-Weber Siemens AG, PD PA S AE MP Karl-Legien-Str. 190 D-53117 BonnTel.: +49 (0) 228 [email protected]@siemens.com

© 2016 Siemens AktiengesellschaftMunich and BerlinAll rights reserved by the publisher.

The following products are registered trademarks of Siemens AG:COMOS, SIMATIC, SIMATIC IT, SIMATIC PCS 7

The marks mentioned are registered trademarks of the respective owner. If trademarks, trade names, technical solutions, or similar are not listed above, this does not imply that they are not registered.

The information provided in this magazine contains merely general descriptions or characteristics of performance, which in the case of actual use do not always apply as described or which may change as a result of further development of the products. An obligation to provide the respective characteristics shall exist only if expressly agreed in the terms of contract.

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The COMOS Smart Platform module offers five services and optimizes the underlying structure of your COMOS installation. In Smart Check our engineers firstly inspect your database model and carry out a systematic analysis of your customizing. Here all of the modules and functions in use in the COMOS installation are checked for their coherent use in confor-mance with definitions. Our specialists explore whether any standardized solutions exist that could replace any customer-specific develop-ments, in order to reduce the work that is re-quired to maintain them in the future. From the three-day analysis you receive concrete recommendations on how to optimize your COMOS database platform.

The Smart Setup service offers basic imple-mentation services. In the COMOS Servicebox we group together all of the setup parameters, which are important for a new installation. The Servicebox can serve as basis for system-atic implementation on different platforms, so

it should be perfectly consistent and in order. The Servicebox helps you complete at a later date, installations of new versions, service packs or patches, much faster and with fewer errors.

Time-savings and work-relief are the two driv-ers that led to the development of the two services Smart Attributes and Smart Symbols. With these we offer customers the option of

placing the time-consuming work of defining attributes or symbols into our professional hands. Care and experience are necessary here because the basic definition of attributes and symbols has a direct influence on how the database is used. Through the work of our specialists, you will receive back a complete and uniformly structured catalog of attributes or symbols, which complies with your specifi-cations and which you can immediately put to use.

The fifth service in the COMOS Smart Platform module helps customers prepare layout tem-plates for reports, data sheets, lists or types of plans. Here, in Smart Report Design, we use predetermined, individual design attributes as a guide, and we produce up to five templates taking into account fonts, company logo, and multiple languages, etc.

Take advantage of our resources and the know-how of our specialists. Use it to raise the per-formance of your COMOS installation and start your project right away with the right basic definitions! Simply contact your person-al customer advisor for more information.

In the next issue we will introduce the COMOS Smart SAP Interface to you. «

COMOS Smart Services, part 1COMOS Smart Platform Services – The foundation for more efficiency

Final example of an attribute catalogue

In the last issue we introduced the concept of COMOS Smart Services: clearly defined performance packages providing an easy way to draw upon COMOS services and achieve higher planning efficiency. Beginning with this issue, we want to introduce to you in stages the individual modules and the services which they include.


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Hannover Messe 2016 – get new technology first!

With its motto "Integrated Industry – Discover Solutions", around 5,000 industrial companies from 70 countries will gather at Hannover Messe trade fair this year between April 25th and 29th. On hand to open the world's lead-ing trade fair for industrial technology will be President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Hannover Messe in 2016 will combine five leading trade fairs in just one location: Industrial Automation, Digital Factory, Energy, Industrial Supply, and Re-search & Technology. Again this year, Industry 4.0 is one of the central topics: Trade visitors will see how they can convert their production plants step by step into smart factories, with intelligent and networked production processes.

On an area of 3,500 square meters, Siemens' booth in hall 9 will showcase a complete overview of products and solutions for electri-fication, automation and digitalization along the entire value chain. The motto of the Siemens booth is "Ingenuity for life – Driving the Digital Enterprise" and numerous examples of inno-vations from the areas of power distribution, automation and drive technology, and indus-trial software will be on exhibit there. Three central areas of activity will dominate the sub-ject of automation: The digital plant, modular-ization, and first-class production.

COMOS – Making data work.

As was already demonstrated at ACHEMA in June 2015, when it comes to the subject of digitalization all roads lead to COMOS! As the world's leading software solution for the engi-neering and operation of plants in the process industry and for the management of plant in-formation, COMOS is a central component of Siemens' digitalization strategy.

To successfully meet the growing challenges of the markets head on, the digital copy of the real plant – the so-called "digital twin" – is becoming increasingly relevant. From the ini-tial design of the process to the engineering, commissioning, operation and beyond, COMOS acts as global data hub. The unique way that COMOS and the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system interact forms the basis for the inte-grated management of information over the complete lifecycle, but also vertically, from the field level right up to the business level. And the integration of further solutions such as the PIA Life Cycle Portal, SIMIT or XHQ – just to name a few examples – allows Siemens Automation and Engineering to offer a power-ful complete solution that is also capable of optimizing plant operations on an ongoing basis.

Exhibition preview: HMI 2016

Global information management in plant projects – made simple

The release of COMOS Mobile Solutions 2.0 has broken completely new ground in the area of mobile access to plant and project data. Not only can documents be displayed, checked and approved using touch-optimized surfaces, but the user can also always stay on top of current project status with clearly arranged dashboards or Web-based task management. To do this, users can freely choose between laptop and tablet. This translates into a consid-erable improvement in how people around the world can collaborate and makes it easy to integrate additional stakeholders in a project.

The newest release: COMOS 10.2

In Hannover, we will be glad to demonstrate the numerous brand-new features, performance enhancements and expanded interfaces of COMOS version 10.2. Explore for yourself the new interface for SIMIT, Bentley OpenPlant or ecl@ss Advanced 9.0, for example. These and many more new features show that topics such as integration, innovation and investment security are still clearly at the center of focus. Come and visit us in Hannover – We look for-ward to seeing you! «


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Organize units more clearly on attributes

It is possible to allocate units to most COMOS attributes. The system is very flexible and as a user, one can select from a whole range of suitable units. However, this can be a ‘bless-ing in disguise’ - if the filled list gets too long then it becomes unmanageable, which is why in COMOS version 10.1.3., we made sure that units on attributes can be directly filtered. As a result, on attributes users get a displayed list of units that exactly matches what they really need for their daily work.

Two possibilities for more convenience

The option "Filter unit" is available when creating an attribute on a base object. With this option you can choose which units to select, on both the base object as well as on the planning object. This way, the units which are loaded by a selection menu can be restricted on a specific attribute.

Option 1: A fixed filter on the master data sideComplete the following to provide the user on the planning side with a fixed filter for the units:

1. Switch to the object for which the attribute units are to be filtered and open the prop-erties of the object.

2. Switch to the attribute tab where the pre-ferred attribute is to be found and switch to work mode.

3. In the context menu of the attribute, select the command "Properties > Display of the attribute".

4. In the "Filter units" group select the value "On master data side".

The units will be filtered on the base ob-ject. The user can only access the filtered units and the field for the filter appears on the right of the attribute.

5. Click on the filter. The list with the units opens.

6. Select the units which are to be visible.7. Save your changes.

Switch to the corresponding planning object and you will notice that users can now only select the units you have specified.

Tips and Tricks – ask Doc COMOSOption 2: Pre-filtering on the master data sideComplete the following to provide users on the planning side with a pre-filtered list of units, which can be individually modified at any time:

1. Switch to the object for which the attri-bute units are to be filtered and open the properties of the object.


3. In the context menu of the attribute select the command "Properties > Display of the attribute".

4. In the "Filter units" group select the value "Always".

The units can be filtered on both the base object and the planning object. Users can specify their own filters and the field for the filter appears on the right of the attri-bute.



If you switch to a corresponding planning object, you will notice that one can now select from a pre-filtered list of units: on the right beside the unit selection list, a filter can be seen with which it can be changed on the planning side for this special attribute. Units can be added or removed.

These two options for filtering the units, provide users with a clear and convenient way to quickly select their own preferred display and in this way, daily routines can be improved and further simplified.

Our video shows how this works in both cases. (2:43 minutes)


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Numerous events covering all aspects of COMOS take place around the world all through the year. Just have a look at our current Event Calendar and pick out the right event for you. You can find more detailed information on each event under “more”.

We’re already looking forwardto your visit!

Event Calendar 2016:

If you would like to receive detailed information regarding an event, please do not hesitate to contact us.

MarchSiemens Oil and Gas Innovations Conferece March 30. – 31. Houston, TX, USA > more

Amper 2016 March 15. – 18. Brünn, Tschech Republic > more

AprilHMI 2016 April 25. – 29. Hannover, Germany > more

MayCHITEC May 19. – 22. Beijing, China > more

Geternergy Global 2016 May 16. – 17. London, UK > more

OTC 2016 May 2. – 5. Houston, USA > more

JuneGerman Customer Day 2016 June 23. Essen, Gernany > more

AugustONS 2016 Aug. 29. – Sept. 1. Stavanger, Norway > more

OctoberMaintain 2016 Oct. 18. – 20. Munich, Germany > more

RIO Oil & Gas 2016 Oct. 24. – 27. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > more

NovemberSPS IPC Drives 2016 Nov. 22. – 24. Nuremberg, Germany > more

DecemberChina Pharm 2016 Dec. 05. – 08. Guangzhou, China > more


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04 COMOS Mobile Solutions – The solution for major plant projects

06 Food & Beverage: Reference DSM Database-supported tools at DSM

11 NEWS COMOS iDB, COMOS Smart Services,

part 1, HMI 2016, Tips and Tricks – ask Doc COMOS, Event Calendar

In this issue you can read about:

08 Plant Engineering: Reference Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Integrated engineering environment for managing entire project lifecycles


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Working in a global networkCOMOS Mobile Solutions – The solution for major plant projects

The COMOS Mobile Solutions product family from Siemens provides the foundation for worldwide networking when it comes to man-aging projects in the process industry. With the help of Web-based services and mobile devices such as tablets, everybody involved has anytime-anywhere access to all essential and current project and plant data. This could not be more important, considering that each individual needs to obtain and work on their own specific data and documents and these must be available through secure access points and it also has to be possible to display them graphically. These key factors will make work-ing in a global network possible and also the associated project management tasks to a complete success.

… for a user-oriented approach

Everyone involved in a project –whether from the purchasing or operations department, or as engineer or external auditor – needs access to the latest documents. Quite often, Share-Point Services from Microsoft are the most widely used solution. With the help of COMOS Mobile Document View, COMOS makes it pos-sible to display documents from a COMOS database directly in a SharePoint. To achieve this, it is possible to configure read-only per-missions in the central database and to index documents for a specific user-group. These are then grouped together through a Share-Point interface. Users benefit from up-to-date documents, in addition to revision history and full text search through the library. This

The foundation ...

As a software solution for holistic plant man-agement throughout the entire lifecycle of industrial plants, COMOS is a leader in the market. With the Web-based COMOS Mobile Solutions, the software is even more flexible and powerful than ever before. All applications – whether developed for tablet or browser operation – are based on the COMOS Web Server, which makes high-performance data ac-cess via Internet possible. For individual appli-cations it acts as interface to the stationary COMOS database, and can be accessed via encrypted SSL connection (Secure Socket Layer) and VPN (Virtual Private Network). All COMOS Mobile Solutions differentiate them-selves intuitively for designed interfaces, which are effectively self-explanatory, leaving the user more time to concentrate on what is im-portant.

makes it easy to integrate internal as well as external employees into projects, even if they do not have any engineering experience. They can view the information from within their own familiar work environment, without the necessity of redundant data management.

It is also capable of being even more specific: With the help of COMOS Mobile Document Review, each user receives information that is tailor-made for them, instead of having to rely on documents tailored to a group, in read-only mode. For iPads COMOS Mobile Document Review is available as app, which can be used to work on the documents. This solution speeds up approval procedures, as it allows technical decision-makers and senior engineers or ma-

When it comes to major projects the challenges facing the process industry include: the networking of international project teams, making it possible for them to work anywhere in the world at any time, and reliably integrating external suppliers. To meet these challenges, help can be found in a Web-based solution that offers a general and high-availability data management for all user groups.



nagers to view, check and approve documents, independent of time and location. Users are supplied with documents and messages direct-ly from the fixed COMOS installation. Before sending, the system checks whether the reci-pient possesses the right level of permissions for editing the documents. After logging in via tablet, the competent user finds all files in his device’s inbox. On the iPad the user can add comments, notes, redlining or photos, and then either send them back to the COMOS database directly or forward them to an email recipient. The interesting thing here is that the work can also be done offline. With an online connection the inbox and outbox are automa-tically updated; i.e. new documents are recei-ved or edited documents sent. In other words, time spent without a connection, such as during a flight or on a train, is still productive!

Lean Web-based solutions ...

To efficiently commission equipment or carry out maintenance work, up-to-date project and plant data are essential. With COMOS WebView this data can be accessed on mobile devices using a conventional Web browser. Users can read values, figures, queries, reports or docu-ments. Regardless of their location, authenti-cated users can access shared data including working layers and revisions of documents or of pre-defined queries. COMOS users, such as process engineers or automation technicians, can therefore be efficiently integrated into projects in the course of their operations throughout the plant. They can quickly access all the data they need directly at the plant component and complete their work faster

and more reliably.

… provide additional (value added) ways to work together

The newest member of the product family, COMOS WebPQM, also allows data to be changed, documents to be checked in and out, and revision steps to be approved – also using a Web browser. Despite offering these comprehensive features, this solution is a very lean application that is intuitive to use. Engineering data is edited online using the browser in a form-based method. Editing the pertinent attributes via the Web, such as the hourly flow rates of a pump or its connec-tions, is granted once centrally by the COMOS administrator. This way, logged in users who are authorized, can easily and securely input the data they must deliver, directly into the database. Multiple suppliers can therefore be securely and conveniently integrated into a COMOS project with minimum license costs. Sending documents or manually comparing data is not necessary anymore. This means that all of the methods which have been required until now, such as mass exports of data, the transfer of data in Excel files, or doc-ument exchange via email, are not required any longer. All project members can work using one single, consistent data foundation. This speeds up work processes, prevents errors and redundant input, and ensures consistent and reliable data handling. Furthermore, constant traceability and documentation of all changes is guaranteed – a fundamental requirement when it is necessary to comply with strictly regulated procedures, such as those in the pharmaceutical industry. Every

single check and approval step in revision work is always seamlessly documented and can be quickly achieved via a secure Internet connection.

A constant eye on project progress

With the help of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which you define, project progress can be displayed very clearly on dashboards in COMOS WebPQM. Questions about tasks yet to be completed, milestones completed error-free, or outstanding approvals, can be answered at a glance. The progress of work can be displayed either on the individual level or for the project as a whole. That makes this function just as valuable for project members as for project heads or business operators. The task manage-ment functionality contributes to workflow optimization: It supplies user-specific task lists from which subsequent work steps can be di-rectly derived. Documents which are ready for approval are presented just as clearly as work that has yet to be done. That helps to keep project workflows going on and so accelerates overall planning procedures. So-called Quick-links allow users to jump directly to the tasks to be worked on and to relevant information. «

COMOS Mobile Solutions info box

• Mobile data management via tablets and Web-based access to relevant plant and project information, anytime and anywhere

• Easy and intuitive to use, with secure access

• COMOS Mobile Document View for direct document viewing

• COMOS Mobile Document Review for efficient document management via iPad

• COMOS WebView for read-only access to COMOS data and documents via Web browser

• COMOS WebPQM for improved team-work, task management and the perfect overview of current project status at all times



COMOS – Vitamin C for data and information management

The Dutch company DSM is one of the most prominent world manufacturers of dietary supplements and additives for animal feed. DSM's largest production site is located in Sisseln, Switzerland, where vitamins A and E are produced. The vitamin E plant is one of the key plants in Sisseln, and it was the first major plant at which the electrical engineering and automation were planned using COMOS. Thanks to this project from 2004, named the Vitex project, DSM was able to further strengthen its leading position in the vitamin E market.

responding library created. At the beginning everyone involved underwent training and an application manager was assigned. Further-more, associated requirements specifications were prepared and also implemented in COMOS. "There is no question that we took a certain risk when we introduced COMOS for this im-portant project, but the risk paid off," says Beck. "Our team and the engineering partners, who were very skeptical to start with, ultimately came to the conclusion that we would not have completed the project so successfully without a database-supported engineering tool."

COMOS as guarantee for success

The production plant was equipped with the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system and the goal was to complete the planning for this major project on schedule. To do this it was essential that several teams work on the project simultaneously. Niklaus Beck, who was respon-sible for automation in the Vitex project, and his team decided that everyone involved in the planning for the electrical and automation engineering should work with the same tools in COMOS. To achieve this objective, the soft-ware was, in collaboration with the system integrator Actemium, standardized and a cor-

Database-supported tools at DSM

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Up to day it has proven its worth many times over

Not only did the use of COMOS guarantee the success of the one-time Vitex project, it also represented the beginning of a series of deploy-ments of this database-supported engineering tool. The use of COMOS to run the vitamin E plant proved its worth, and even today after ten years, this plant still represents an essential pillar of DSM's production. Processes were and still are being constantly optimized, result-

ing in increasing plant efficiency. Additionally, the degree of automation is constantly being increased, leading to a reduction in the amount of manual work involved in the overall process. All of these changes are entered into COMOS, providing a standardized database, which can be drawn upon at every step: from maintenance through optimization and automation, right through to the planning of new systems.

In DSM's Nutritional Products department, COMOS is used to look after and further devel-op the project tools for the plant systems, and is constantly being developed in collaboration with Siemens, parallel to standards and librar-ies. This guarantees the optimization of pro-cesses and the efficient management of doc-umentation and information. Today, COMOS is used to plan piping and instrumentation as well as the electrical engineering. As the proven planning tool that it is, for four years, only COMOS has been used to plan new plant sys-tems. In collaboration with Siemens, DSM developed an interface to the former planning system to migrate its existing data, so it was possible to safeguard and reuse valuable know-how, without manual re-entry. "For the migration work we developed clear criteria concerning from which date the data must be moved to COMOS. Ultimately, we want, if possible, all documents to be available in COMOS, but naturally we have to keep an eye on the associated work involved too. Our migration strategy ensures that there is a good balance between cost and benefit for each modernization project," summarizes Niklaus Beck.

Engineering and more

As far as engineering goes, COMOS led to an improvement in quality and more efficient implementation of projects. However it is not only the engineering itself that benefits from COMOS. For Thomas Müller, Head Tools and Document Management, it is clear: "In partic-ular with regard to applications in the areas of pharmaceuticals and food, we have to make sure that our data is entered and kept available in accordance with GMP guidelines. In some cases we have to maintain the exact same information and data at 20 different locations – in the engineering system, in the production information management system, and so on – that just cannot be done without a standardized tool. For maintaining process data and plant documentation COMOS is a real help, and furthermore, it provides for employees in plant operations a practical and reliable solution for accessing the relevant data and information.” «

Thomas Müller

Head of Tools and Documentmanagement , DSM Nutritional Products GmbH

”In particular with regard to applica-tions in the areas of pharmaceuticals and food, we have to make sure that our data is entered and kept available in ac-cordance with GMP guidelines (...) that just cannot be done without a standard-ized tool.“




Integrated engineering environment for managing entire project lifecycles

Turbine manufacturer can turn it up to full power

Björn Axelsson works at Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery (SIT) in Finspång, Sweden. He bears primary responsibility for the use of COMOS at SIT and has been working since 2007 with the integrated software solution from Siemens, after its introduction to the Swedish company in 2006. A large part of his work consists of coordination and direction of projects related to COMOS. "We're working with a very complex business and IT environ-ment in which we have to link different sys-tems, so we have to have all the stakeholders onboard – the key users just as much as the management level. On top of that, we are currently working on new applications and tools," he explains.

If salespeople could discuss the latest drawings and models of a complex plant section on the computer already during the planning phase with their customers, or if all engineering and developer teams could work simultaneously on a project, or if documentation was simply generated incidentally throughout and beyond the project period, it would almost sound like an old sailor's yarn. But for the Swede Björn Axelsson, such things are a matter of course. However, he is not a sailor, but an engineer, and his tales are based on facts.

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Recognized signs of the times ...

SIT develops, produces, markets and maintains gas turbines besides building entire power plants for customers worldwide. Turbines generate electricity, steam and heat or they are used to drive pumps and compressors in the oil and gas industry. It became clear already in 2004 that customer expectations were changing: They wanted shorter project delivery deadlines and even better quality data in the early project phase, but also at the time of delivery. Axelsson confirms that customers want to see what it is that they are buying – not just a general drawing from a catalog, but the genuine project, and they want to see it

Employee in front of turbine, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery

The integrated engineering that was introduced with COMOS has also opened up new forms of collaboration for SIT: "Within their engineering environments, process and electrical engineers all have access to the same objects, so teams working at different locations can collaborate together on one project. This makes it possible to improve how the workload is distributed among the teams, and each site can contribute their best capabilities to a project. COMOS also functions as knowledge pool for all the teams," he explains. «

at the time of the initial meetings, before the project is awarded. "And they want this quality and precision of project data throughout all phases of the project, which means that elec-tronic documentation must be used instead of traditional paper files," he says. For SIT it meant that efficient tools had to be implement-ed to plan and manage all project data. Back then, various systems were examined and compared. It was clear from the outset that SIT needed more than simply an application to produce the drawings and designs. In order to work more efficiently throughout all project phases, a software system was sought that would be able to integrate all the different fields of engineering and provide one single access point for all project data. "On top of that, the solution had to be open and flexible. COMOS offered us the most convincing solu-tions for all these requirements," resumes Axelsson.

… and bet on the right horse

Today at SIT, roughly 700 users work with COMOS at four locations in Europe. The solu-tion is comprised of a COMOS platform for data management, COMOS Process for plant engineering, COMOS Automation for the electrical, instrumentation and control engi-neering, and COMOS Lifecycle for information management over the entire project lifecycle. Axelsson emphasizes that COMOS has become one of the most important tools for projects at SIT. "We use it in all project phases and it has changed the way we work. We can build up know-how with it, implement and deliver projects faster, and also enhance project

quality," he says. "It also alleviates work to-gether with customers, partners and suppliers." Throughout it all, COMOS is much more than merely an engineering tool, it is extremely useful already while developing the project: The offer and order documents are prepared according to the project standards, and then adapted to customer-specific requirements. If necessary, this can be done virtually with the components available in COMOS, so the teams can already present a very detailed solution at a very early stage of the project. As soon as the job is awarded, setting up the project is now much easier than it used to

be, because it is possible to use the same data. This speeds up processes right from the outset. Now, engineers don't have to grapple anymore with the general structure, rather they can jump right into the customer-specific require-ments: "This means we can work faster and utilize the expertise of our teams much better than before. Since we have to deliver one project a week on average, we need tools that make our teams more efficient and that reduce the routine work and controls as much as pos-sible," says Axelsson.



Impressions of the SIT Production Plant in Finspång, Sweden

”We use COMOS in all project phases and this changed the way we work. We can build up know-how with COMOS, implement and deliver projects faster, and also enhance project quality“

Björn Axelsson, COMOS Tool Owner

this has been achieved in full. Axelsson con-firms that feedback has been very positive from users and management alike. The company has acquired noticeable advantages in key aspects such as project delivery deadlines, engineering quality, and efficiency. As person responsible for the use of COMOS, Axelsson is looking forward to the future: "Each new project, each new team – yes, and even each new user – can add completely new possibilities. A large proportion of our work consists of listening to the expectations, problems and ideas of our users, and implementing them with COMOS." «

Exploit even more potential

With that, COMOS's potential at SIT is far from being exhausted: "We're working on a very ambitious business project in which we are not only slimming-down processes in engi-neering, but we also intend to improve our entire value-added chain," reveals Axelsson. "That's why we are integrating COMOS into our other IT tools, especially the Teamcenter." The project involves making improvements to the flow of data between the PLM level (product lifecycle management) and COMOS, and it began in 2009 as SIT implemented an interface that was to make the exchange and checking of documentation easier. Now the two systems also reconcile the data for mate-rial accounting, providing support for the

purchasing and inventory management de-partments. "Our goal is a fully-integrated environment, in which each of our tasks – engineering, control and approval, purchas-ing, service – must only be executed once and the data is automatically reconciled be-tween the different tools and systems. This also provides benefits for customers," he ex-plains: "Not only can we deliver all the project documentation in electronic form once a project is completed, we can also supply data on stocks of spare parts, service requirements, and much more."

The next big step is to set up a standardized collaboration platform for everybody involved in the project and value-added chain, so that suppliers, partners and customers can all ac-

cess the required information together in one single environment. The presentation of the data plays a key role here, too, which is why the use of COMOS Walkinside – the solution for creating and visualizing 3D virtual reality models – is currently being examined. "Natu-rally, we live in a world with three dimensions, and turbines are quite complex structures. It will be much easier to convey to our customers why our offer is superior if we are able to dis-play it in 3D," says Axelsson. "These models can also be used to train our service or opera-tor teams."

The original goal of SIT was to implement an integrated engineering environment as common access point to project data. With the current status of the COMOS solution,



Ever since it was introduced with COMOS Ver-sion 10.1, the iDB has been the platform for all our future development measures. We will be developing new database functionality for iDB and cDB until 2016. Moreover, we will be providing support for cDB installations until the end of 2019. Nevertheless, it makes sense to switch over already today: With the iDB we have achieved another big step in the direction of standardization, harmonization and future security. Now all COMOS modules share a similar structure; operation is standardized across the board for all trades. This alleviates work and reduces the effort required for train-ing. Moreover, with iDB we have established a bridge between individualization and stan-dardization. On one hand, now companies have additional internal classification options

open to them, which increase the efficiency of database queries or document storage, for ex-ample. On the other hand, we have modified the database structure in such a way, that new COMOS releases can be integrated with hardly any work. In the process, we have kept the customer-specific and program-specific soft-ware areas strictly separated from one another.

To iDB in four steps

In order to convert existing cDB installations – i.e. COMOS systems with a version lower than 10.1 – to iDB, we have developed a standard-ized approach: With the COMOS "iDB transition check" Smart Service it is possible to take a complete inventory of the current state of your existing database even before the actual con-version process begins. Already beforehand, this provides you with detailed insight about the amount of work and the benefits involved in a switch to the iDB. Our experts will be happy to work with you to develop a migration plan, to determine the ideal moment to put the mi-gration process into effect.

Step 1: Global adaptations of your databaseFirst of all the database-wide settings in the user interface are worked on – language, units, IDs, etc.

Step 2: Import the iDB into your databaseThe database is updated by importing the entire iDB into a work layer of your database. In this step, your own master data and project data will not be changed at all.

Step 3: Migration of the system dataWe have programmed tools with which all system objects can be automatically brought right up to date: classifications, engineering types, connectors, etc.

Step 4: Migration of the master data and all customer-specific adaptationsFinally, we come to the last important step: adaption of the scripts, queries, reports, master objects, planning models, etc., so that they match the data structure of the iDB. In-dividualized scripts, for which standard solu-tions have been developed in the meantime, are replaced.

By request: Migration of planning projects

This step is important for operators, and involves making planning projects fit for embedding in the iDB. «

COMOS iDB Fit for the future

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Industrial DatabaseMigration – Concept

With COMOS Version 10.1 (which was introduced at the end of 2013), we established a common denominator in our database structure for all COMOS installations: iDB – the industrial database. In an increasing number of inquiries we are receiving, customers want to know if there is any way to make existing cDB installations (classic databases) fit for the future, to profit from current-day functionality. Naturally, we have developed the right strategy for this, which we are already putting to use at our customers.

Jan RougoorHead of Product Management, COMOS Industry Solutions

”We use the iDB to pro-duce short, medium and long-term benefits for our customers – switch-ing over is possible and sensible at almost any time.”


The COMOS Smart Platform module offers five services and optimizes the underlying structure of your COMOS installation. In Smart Check our engineers firstly inspect your database model and carry out a systematic analysis of your customizing. Here all of the modules and functions in use in the COMOS installation are checked for their coherent use in confor-mance with definitions. Our specialists explore whether any standardized solutions exist that could replace any customer-specific develop-ments, in order to reduce the work that is re-quired to maintain them in the future. From the three-day analysis you receive concrete recommendations on how to optimize your COMOS database platform.

The Smart Setup service offers basic imple-mentation services. In the COMOS Servicebox we group together all of the setup parameters, which are important for a new installation. The Servicebox can serve as basis for system-atic implementation on different platforms, so

it should be perfectly consistent and in order. The Servicebox helps you complete at a later date, installations of new versions, service packs or patches, much faster and with fewer errors.

Time-savings and work-relief are the two driv-ers that led to the development of the two services Smart Attributes and Smart Symbols. With these we offer customers the option of

placing the time-consuming work of defining attributes or symbols into our professional hands. Care and experience are necessary here because the basic definition of attributes and symbols has a direct influence on how the database is used. Through the work of our specialists, you will receive back a complete and uniformly structured catalog of attributes or symbols, which complies with your specifi-cations and which you can immediately put to use.

The fifth service in the COMOS Smart Platform module helps customers prepare layout tem-plates for reports, data sheets, lists or types of plans. Here, in Smart Report Design, we use predetermined, individual design attributes as a guide, and we produce up to five templates taking into account fonts, company logo, and multiple languages, etc.

Take advantage of our resources and the know-how of our specialists. Use it to raise the per-formance of your COMOS installation and start your project right away with the right basic definitions! Simply contact your person-al customer advisor for more information.

In the next issue we will introduce the COMOS Smart SAP Interface to you. «

COMOS Smart Services, part 1COMOS Smart Platform Services – The foundation for more efficiency

Final example of an attribute catalogue

In the last issue we introduced the concept of COMOS Smart Services: clearly defined performance packages providing an easy way to draw upon COMOS services and achieve higher planning efficiency. Beginning with this issue, we want to introduce to you in stages the individual modules and the services which they include.


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Hannover Messe 2016 – get new technology first!

With its motto "Integrated Industry – Discover Solutions", around 5,000 industrial companies from 70 countries will gather at Hannover Messe trade fair this year between April 25th and 29th. On hand to open the world's lead-ing trade fair for industrial technology will be President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Hannover Messe in 2016 will combine five leading trade fairs in just one location: Industrial Automation, Digital Factory, Energy, Industrial Supply, and Re-search & Technology. Again this year, Industry 4.0 is one of the central topics: Trade visitors will see how they can convert their production plants step by step into smart factories, with intelligent and networked production processes.

On an area of 3,500 square meters, Siemens' booth in hall 9 will showcase a complete overview of products and solutions for electri-fication, automation and digitalization along the entire value chain. The motto of the Siemens booth is "Ingenuity for life – Driving the Digital Enterprise" and numerous examples of inno-vations from the areas of power distribution, automation and drive technology, and indus-trial software will be on exhibit there. Three central areas of activity will dominate the sub-ject of automation: The digital plant, modular-ization, and first-class production.

COMOS – Making data work.

As was already demonstrated at ACHEMA in June 2015, when it comes to the subject of digitalization all roads lead to COMOS! As the world's leading software solution for the engi-neering and operation of plants in the process industry and for the management of plant in-formation, COMOS is a central component of Siemens' digitalization strategy.

To successfully meet the growing challenges of the markets head on, the digital copy of the real plant – the so-called "digital twin" – is becoming increasingly relevant. From the ini-tial design of the process to the engineering, commissioning, operation and beyond, COMOS acts as global data hub. The unique way that COMOS and the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system interact forms the basis for the inte-grated management of information over the complete lifecycle, but also vertically, from the field level right up to the business level. And the integration of further solutions such as the PIA Life Cycle Portal, SIMIT or XHQ – just to name a few examples – allows Siemens Automation and Engineering to offer a power-ful complete solution that is also capable of optimizing plant operations on an ongoing basis.

Exhibition preview: HMI 2016

Further informations

Global information management in plant projects – made simple

The release of COMOS Mobile Solutions 2.0 has broken completely new ground in the area of mobile access to plant and project data. Not only can documents be displayed, checked and approved using touch-optimized surfaces, but the user can also always stay on top of current project status with clearly arranged dashboards or Web-based task management. To do this, users can freely choose between laptop and tablet. This translates into a consid-erable improvement in how people around the world can collaborate and makes it easy to integrate additional stakeholders in a project.

The newest release: COMOS 10.2

In Hannover, we will be glad to demonstrate the numerous brand-new features, performance enhancements and expanded interfaces of COMOS version 10.2. Explore for yourself the new interface for SIMIT, Bentley OpenPlant or ecl@ss Advanced 9.0, for example. These and many more new features show that topics such as integration, innovation and investment security are still clearly at the center of focus. Come and visit us in Hannover – We look for-ward to seeing you! «


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Organize units more clearly on attributes

It is possible to allocate units to most COMOS attributes. The system is very flexible and as a user, one can select from a whole range of suitable units. However, this can be a ‘bless-ing in disguise’ - if the filled list gets too long then it becomes unmanageable, which is why in COMOS version 10.1.3., we made sure that units on attributes can be directly filtered. As a result, on attributes users get a displayed list of units that exactly matches what they really need for their daily work.

Two possibilities for more convenience

The option "Filter unit" is available when creating an attribute on a base object. With this option you can choose which units to select, on both the base object as well as on the planning object. This way, the units which are loaded by a selection menu can be restricted on a specific attribute.

Option 1: A fixed filter on the master data sideComplete the following to provide the user on the planning side with a fixed filter for the units:

1. Switch to the object for which the attribute units are to be filtered and open the prop-erties of the object.


3. In the context menu of the attribute, select the command "Properties > Display of the attribute".

4. In the "Filter units" group select the value "On master data side".

The units will be filtered on the base ob-ject. The user can only access the filtered units and the field for the filter appears on the right of the attribute.



Switch to the corresponding planning object and you will notice that users can now only select the units you have specified.

Tips and Tricks – ask Doc COMOSOption 2: Pre-filtering on the master data sideComplete the following to provide users on the planning side with a pre-filtered list of units, which can be individually modified at any time:

1. Switch to the object for which the attri-bute units are to be filtered and open the properties of the object.


3. In the context menu of the attribute select the command "Properties > Display of the attribute".

4. In the "Filter units" group select the value "Always".

The units can be filtered on both the base object and the planning object. Users can specify their own filters and the field for the filter appears on the right of the attri-bute.



If you switch to a corresponding planning object, you will notice that one can now select from a pre-filtered list of units: on the right beside the unit selection list, a filter can be seen with which it can be changed on the planning side for this special attribute. Units can be added or removed.

These two options for filtering the units, provide users with a clear and convenient way to quickly select their own preferred display and in this way, daily routines can be improved and further simplified.

Our video shows how this works in both cases. (2:43 minutes)


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Numerous events covering all aspects of COMOS take place around the world all through the year. Just have a look at our current Event Calendar and pick out the right event for you. You can find more detailed information on each event under “more”.

We’re already looking forwardto your visit!

Event Calendar 2016:

If you would like to receive detailed information regarding an event, please do not hesitate to contact us.

MarchSiemens Oil and Gas Innovations Conferece March 30. – 31. Houston, TX, USA > more

Amper 2016 March 15. – 18. Brünn, Tschech Republic > more

AprilHMI 2016 April 25. – 29. Hannover, Germany > more

MayCHITEC May 19. – 22. Beijing, China > more

Geternergy Global 2016 May 16. – 17. London, UK > more

OTC 2016 May 2. – 5. Houston, USA > more

JuneGerman Customer Day 2016 June 23. Essen, Gernany > more

AugustONS 2016 Aug. 29. – Sept. 1. Stavanger, Norway > more

OctoberMaintain 2016 Oct. 18. – 20. Munich, Germany > more

RIO Oil & Gas 2016 Oct. 24. – 27. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > more

NovemberSPS IPC Drives 2016 Nov. 22. – 24. Nuremberg, Germany > more

DecemberChina Pharm 2016 Dec. 05. – 08. Guangzhou, China > more


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http://getenergyevent.com/

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COMOS Plant ManagerMarch 2016

PublisherSiemens AG Process Industries and DrivesProcess AutomationAutomation and EngineeringPD PA S AE MP Karl-Legien-Str. 190 D-53117 Bonn, Germany www.siemens.com/comos

COMOS Industry SolutionsVP Andreas Geiss

EditorMareike BlettnerVerena Wild-Weber Siemens AG, PD PA S AE MP Karl-Legien-Str. 190 D-53117 BonnTel.: +49 (0) 228 [email protected]@siemens.com

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