SICEMENT – Innovative solutions for the Cement Industry
Companies in the global cement industry are facing major challenges: If they are to improve productivity while simultaneously decreasing costs, they need high-performance products that are also energy-efficient and offer maximum availability and flexibility. These products also need to comply with environmental regulations while providing maximum safety for employees, machines and material. The SICEMENT portfolio encompasses electrification, automation, and digitalization of core production and secondary processes ranging from system solutions right up to completely integrated electrical installations. Main focus of portfolio is to provide you with unique value-add by seamless integration of innovative solutions along the entire production chain.
Cost-efficient production and a simultaneous emissions reduction can only be achieved by using components that are perfectly adapted to one another. In its SICEMENT product family, Siemens links automation, drive, and power supply systems to form one overall solution. The portfolio can be used right from extracting the raw materials through to packaging the end products.
Customer expected:
Superior mechanism to monitor and control through a single view
A maintenance friendly system offering ease of debugging
Better quality and consistency along with cost savings
Report generation capability
The Siemens automation system comprised:
SFC visualization
PCS 7 implementation
Communication via Profinet & Profibus
PLC & SCADA programming
Web navigation
The customer achieved:
Minimal installation at Web Client
Direct conversion of process screens for the web
Superior performance by
Compressed process pictures for the Web
Report generation was based runtime communication