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Migration to SIMATIC PCS 7
Migration TELEPERM M
Introduction
■ Overview
The TELEPERM ® M process control system from Siemens has
proven itself worldwide in many different industry sectors in the
past 20 years. More than 15,000 installed systems have proven
their performance, reliability and user-friendliness in many years
of service, even under extreme operating conditions.
Many users are faced with the need to adapt their production operations
to market requirements, which means having to expand
or modernize their plants.
SIMATIC PCS 7, the succesor generation for the process control
system, was introduced by Siemens in 1997 for new plants and
plant expansions, and offers an open platform for modern, forward-looking
and economical automation solutions in all industries.
The installed platform of the old process control system represents
an immense investment in hardware and application software
as well as a wealth of valuable and complex know-how accumulated
by operating and maintenance personnel.
The objective of the migration is to modernize the existing platform
step-by-step without changing the system, and at the same
time to guarantee past investments for as long as possible. For
this purpose, Siemens has been offering optimized migration solutions
for the transition from TELEPERM M to SIMATIC PCS 7
since 1996. The range of migration products covers hardware
and software components as well as services for converting application
software, on-site conversions, and the migration of
complete systems.
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At the beginning, the main migration of customers was the stepby-step
modernization and functional expansion of individual
components of the existing TELEPERM M systems:
Replacement of existing automation systems by future-compatible
automation systems under the premise of importing
existing application software and TELEPERM M I/O.
Replacement of operation and monitoring systems by operator
systems on the basis of SIMATIC PCS 7
Integration of the distributed SIMATIC process I/Os
Customers are increasingly choosing a more direct migration of
TELEPERM M to SIMATIC PCS 7. They are selecting the full
range of SIMATIC system components, which have been proven
worldwide. They therefore benefit from the characteristics of a
modern process control system and the synergies of TIA, and
are able at the same time to continue using their existing
TELEPERM M I/Os. Siemens supports this trend by means of
new migration products as well as optimized services and inhouse
tools for hardware and software conversion.
With the modern, pioneering SIMATIC PCS 7 process control
system, innovative migration solutions and services, many years
of know-how in process control engineering and migration, as
well as worldwide servicing, Siemens demonstrates its expertise
in the process control engineering field and offers the security of
a reliable partner.