Do you want an automated system that goes beyond the typical functionality of a distributed control system (DCS)? If so, the Siemens Process Control System 7 provides the flexibility you need to run your manufacturing plant more efficiently.
Let’s explore what the PCS7 does and how it improves your plant’s operations.
Defining PCS7’s Capabilities
This system is a set of software extensions built for the Siemens S7-400 PLC and Siemens HMI running WinCC. What do these software extensions include? They include closely integrated software tools and function libraries that increase its flexibility, so it can control and manage your processes throughout your facility. It’s designed to offer a unique range of services that can handle the many different aspects of your plant. From batch automation to technical documentation, third-party integration, and efficient process control, PCS7 has a wide range of capabilities to ensure and ideally increase your machines’ and plant’s productivity.
PCS7 Batch Automation Features and Functions
PCS7 can handle all your batch automation functions, from recipe creation and recording to production ordering. For example, this system provides a user-friendly site display and usability, including a recipe editor that features a graphical user interface. That interface allows you to structure how and when the recipe’s ingredients are added and then schedule key process steps such as premixing and reactions. It appears on the screen in a simply laid out fashion so you and your employees can communicate quickly and efficiently about the batch recipe process.
Once you’ve created and edited the recipe your products require, you can monitor batch manufacturing processes through PCS7’s Batch Control Center. The BCC controls every aspect of the batch manufacturing process. Its user-friendly interface allows operators to control individual recipe phases or transitions, change setpoints, and manage everything from batch creation to updating the plant’s data for basic automation in one place.
Additionally, this system records all your batch recipes as logs that allow you to easily trace everything you manufacture. This feature helps you stay compliant with all relevant traceable and reproducible production regulations. The pharmaceutical and food industries must ensure that all their recipes can be made again, which is why this feature can be particularly useful for companies in those industries.
Other PCS7 Uses
Of course, PCS7 has uses beyond batch production. You can find many different uses for it, including PCS7 SCADA applications that reach across wide areas. However, it’s more likely you’ll use PCS7 to manage your plant operations and improve the productivity of its machines. PCS7 uses straightforward graphic design to give your operators a clear view of the plant. This system has a flexible architecture, with configurations for a single operator station or multiple operator stations throughout your plant. You can also use PCS7’s Web Server option to monitor plant operations through the internet or intranet to enable operator views of worldwide operations.
Within that monitoring, PCS7 offers plant device management tools that keep you on top of device maintenance and servicing. The system records and diagnoses device problems through intelligence field devices. Then it sends that information to cloud-based condition monitoring systems or asset management systems, which further assess the situation.
Additionally, PCS7 has many more capabilities built into it. You can use it to manage and reduce your plant’s energy consumption, and you can also use it to manage your plant’s security. Whatever your plant management needs may be, PCS7 has a way to meet them.
PCS7 uses straightforward graphic design to give your operators a clear view of the plant. This system has a flexible architecture, with configurations for a single operator station or multiple operator stations throughout your plant. You can also use PCS7’s Web Server option to monitor plant operations through the internet or intranet to enable operator views of worldwide operations.
Implement PCS7 With HEXA
If you want to implement Siemens PCS7 in your manufacturing plant, reach out to HEXA Engineers today. We will find the right PCS7 solutions for your facility based on our extensive technology and industry expertise with this system. Using our past experience, we suggest and then deploy the services and solutions you need to run your plant efficiently and effectively with PCS7. When you’re ready to manage your plant with this system, we’ll be here to transition you over to it with our service and support.