30 percent more bread Did you know, that a Canadian bakery produces more bread with Siemens weighing technology?

Content01 Weighing Technology for

more bread

02 Navigational lights

03 New mobile communication router

04 Ramp up of capacity at Coca Cola

05 Comos at Aker Solutions

06 Did you know …?

07 clear and brief

The new maintenance-free weighing technology makes for more precise, faster weighing of loaves, giving the

bakery a 30 percent boost in produc-tion. Read more on p. 6

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TIA Portalwww.siemens.com/tia-portal

Erie, Pennsylvania/USA. American shipbuilder DonJon Shipbuilding & Repair uses technology from the Sie-mens Industry Automation Division to control winches and navigational lights for a new tug boat and barge convoy. Using automation solutions based on Simatic S7 PLC (program-mable logic controller) and the TIA Portal engineering framework, Don-Jon has succeeded in reducing the work and engineering costs involved by over 30 percent.

DonJon uses Ethernet for data com-munication between the tug and bar-ge of a new convoy. The shipbuilder has been able to reduce the develop-ment time required, cut diagnostic and maintenance costs and also save the considerable cost of wiring. The technical challenge lay in the size of the barge and the distance between the operator stations and drives for eight winches. The new automation

solution now allows the barge’s navi-gational lights to be controlled from the tug. The winch drives, located up to 30 meters distant, are also remo-tely controlled via Profibus. DonJon has also equipped each of the winch operator stations with a Simatic S7-1200 controller and HMI(Human Machine Interface) panels. The data from the individual operator stations is transmitted over fiber optic cables to a central Simatic S7-1200, which controls all the winch drives via Pro-fibus. The new communication solu-tion has drastically reduced the amount of wiring work involved. In addition, DonJon was able to simply configure the solution using the TIA Portal, cutting the engineering costs for the project by more than 30 per-cent. The key deciding factors for DonJon in opting for Siemens auto-mation products was the combinati-on of cost, functionality and user convenience.

Navigational lightsControl of winches and navigational lights for tug boat and barge convoy

A tug is a pushboat used on inland waterways. It does not itself carry any cargo, and is used to propel one or more barges (non-motorized floa-ting containers). Alongside the an-chor winches, the deck is also fitted with coupling winches used for fas-tening to the barges. Navigating lights are used to ensure visibility for other shipping.

DonJon Shipbuilding & Repair, headquartered in Erie, Pennsylva-nia/USA, serves the commercial shipping sector. «

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Industrial Remote Communication www.siemens.com/industrial-remote-communication

New mobile communication router Scalance M874-2 and M874-3

Nuremberg, Germany. The Siemens Industry Automation Division is exten-ding its Scalance M industrial remote communication product family to inclu-de two new mobile communication rou-ters: Scalance M874-2 and Scalance M874-3.

Mobile communication router Scalance M874-3 is used to connect Ethernet-based automation devices using the 3G mobile telecommunication network (UMTS - Universal Mobile Te-lecommunications System). The device supports HSPA+(High Speed Packet Access), so allowing high downlink transmission speeds to the terminal – depending on the network provider’s in-frastructure – of up to 14.4 megabits per second, with uplink speeds to the telecommunication network of up to 5.76 megabits per second. The Sca-lance M874-2 links Ethernet-based au-tomation devices across the 2G mobile telecommunication network (GSM - Global System for Mobile Communica-tions) and via the GPRS(General Packet Radio Service) and EDGE(En-hanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution).

Both variants provide secured access and communication, with integrated se-curity functions provided by a stateful inspection firewall and VPN tunnel (end-to-end encryption of the communi-cation link). The new mobile communi-cation routers afford users transparent access to internet protocol-based termi-nals around the world.

Industrial and industry-oriented fields of application range from worldwide remo-te programming and maintenance, for instance using Step 7, to flexible plant access for maintenance and diag-nostics.

The new routers are also ideally suited for use in telecontrol systems to control and monitor remote stations from cen-tral control stations. Fields of applica-tion here include for instance water treatment plants, oil and gas supplies, district heating networks, power distri-bution, pumping stations and traffic ma-nagement.

Both devices are also suitable for con-dition monitoring, for instance in wind power and photovoltaic plants. «

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Optimized Packaging Linewww.siemens.com/opl

Food & Beveragewww.siemens.com/food-beve-rage

Nuremberg, Germany/Sidcup, Kent/UK. By introducing standardized auto-mation solutions from Siemens, Coca Cola Enterprises(CCE) has ramped up the annual capacity of its produc-tion lines in Sidcup by 20 million crates whilst simultaneously driving down costs. An agreement between CCE and Siemens sets out a Europe-wide strategy for standardization.

The Sidcup location processes the lar-gest range of packaging types of any CCE production plant anywhere in the UK, filling plastic and glass bottles as well as 150 and 330 milliliter cans, with plans to introduce 500 ml cans in the future. The new canning line with its capacity of 120,000 cans per hour will extend the plant’s capacity by a further

20 million cases per annum. By im-plementing a standardization strategy based on the Optimized Packaging Line(OPL) concept, an industry initia-tive by Siemens, Coca Cola in Sidcup now relies on seamlessly automated and standardized production and pa-ckaging lines.

The Totally Integrated Automation engineering framework, a common automation and communication stan-dard, along with drives, programm-able logic controllers and communi-cation products such as Ethernet switches work together to not only enhance the production efficiency of a plant but also to drive down mainte-nance, spare part management and personnel costs. The new standar-

dized automation solution will allow Coca Cola Enterprises to adapt its operations more quickly and simply in response to future market chan-ges. «

Ramp up of capacity at Coca ColaAutomation standard for Coca Cola

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plant engineering, to stay ahead of these constantly growing challen-ges. In 2006, they took a decision to replace their own CAE system with a third party software solution: Comos from Siemens.

Comos forms the basis of Aker Solu-tions’ Project Data Hub, and also de-livers integrated engineering tools supporting key stages of the engi-neering lifecycle. It is based on a uniform data platform. The open software architecture allows Aker Solutions to connect other software tools such as weight control soft-ware.

Nowadays, almost 1000 users work with Comos at Aker Solutions, ex-panded by suppliers/subcontractors who exchange their project data with Comos. „With our innovative engi-neering concept and the use of the Comos software, we are able to per-form work sequences simultaneous-ly with higher data quality“, says

Stein Schjerve, CIO of the enginee-ring division at Aker Solutions. Co-mos allows Aker Solutions to mana-ge all the engineering data as a central project data hub. Significant numbers of FEED(Front End Engi-neering Design) projects and multip-le detailed engineering projects have been executed. Also the company is already working on further develop-ments of their plant engineering con-cept, in which the Comos software solution will continue to play a key role. «

Comos Plant Engineering Softwarewww.siemens.com/comos

Comos at Aker Solutions Interoperability in oil and gas plant engineering

Nuremberg, Germany/Oslo, Norway. A long-term plant engineering strategy supported by efficient engineering software products, that’s Aker Solu-tions approach to the oil and gas industry’s demand for continually hig-her engineering quality and decrea-sed execution time for project deve-lopments. At Aker Solutions almost 1000 users work with the software so-lution Comos of Siemens Industry Au-tomation Division.

As one of the leading engineering companies in the oil and gas industry, Aker Solutions is specialized in deli-vering complex project solutions for challenging environmental conditions. Efficient data management and high quality in the data delivered are decis-ive factors for avoiding errors during construction and operation of a plant, and to ensure that possible problems can be dealt with early.

Aker Solutions have for decades em-ployed innovative IT solutions in their

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Did you know …?... that a large-scale Canadian bakery uses Siemens, enabling a 30 percent increase in its bread production? To ensure that every loaf on the supermarket shelf is the right weight, each individual loaf is weighed directly after leaving the oven and checked on a platform scale equipped with a Siwarex WL260 load cell, which is connec-ted to a Siwarex WP231 weighing module. The new weighing techno-logy is linked into the company’s control system, feeding the weigh-ing results directly back into the baking plant. As the new platform scale is significantly smaller than the old mechanical model, there was space to install a second scale featuring Siwarex technolo-gy. The new maintenance-free weighing technology makes for more precise, faster weighing of loaves, giving the bakery a 30 percent boost in production. «

Siwarex WP231www.siemens.com/siwarexWP231

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clear and briefProcess Automation World Tour: By staging its Process Automation World Tour, the Sie-mens Industry Automation Division aims to spread the word in the international arena about how to link the key elements required for long-term success – such as increased productivity, energy cost savings and accelerated time to market – to create a bespoke concept tailored to each individual company. www.industry.siemens.com/topics/global/en/process-automation/process_automa-tion_world_tour/Pages/Default.aspx

Tank management solution at Sea-Tank Terminal 510 in Belgium: Siemens equipped Sea-Tank Terminal 510 in Antwerp with automation and drives technology, amongst others: pro-cess control system, field devices and frequency converters. Sea-Tank Terminal, one of the world’s largest terminal operators for dry bulk, fruit and liquid bulk, built one of the fas-test and most flexible transshipment terminals in Antwerp. Siemens secured the long-term investment of the plant with flexible services during the turnkey project to prove safety, long-term reliability and investment protection as also to increase the return of investment. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL378C4C09E00F5ED1 www.industry.siemens.com/verticals/global/en/chemical-industries/Pages/chemical-industries.aspx

The Siemens Motor Control Center has received design and product type approval certifi-cation from the maritime classification service American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). www.industry.usa.siemens.com/automation/us/en/industrial-controls/products/motor-control-centers/Pages/Motor-Control-Centers.aspx?stc=usiia100018&sp_ source=usiia100018

The Siemens Maxum gas chromatograph featuring a new modular oven and color touch panel display has received the prestigious „ISA Analysis Division Product of the Year Award 2013“. www.usa.siemens.com/gc

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