The "Right" Level of Integration

In the past, the Basic Process Control System (BPCS) and the Safety Shutdown System (SIS) were completely independent. They were interfaced through a gateway. BPCS and SIS had their own engineering tool. This solution is still available today.

Because of the costs for the separate engineering, operation and maintenance tools and separate communication of the interfaced solution, many companies started looking for integrated solutions. These solutions have different controllers for BPCS and SIS, but they have one engineering, operation and maintenance tool.

Finally the last step is the common system, with a single controller for BPCS and SIS and a single tool for engineering, operation and maintenance.

The Siemens solution with SIMATIC Safety Integrated offers all these solutions and enables you to choose the "right" level of integration.

Easy integration into the process control system

You can connect the innovative Safety Integrated System from Siemens to any distributed control system (DCS). Therefore different communication protocols like PROFIBUS, Industrial Ethernet and others are available.

One of the unique features is the integration of safety functions into SIMATIC PCS 7, the proven DCS of Siemens. This combination also provides you with a number of benefits.

Benefits for the integration into SIMATIC PCS 7:
	One engineering system for process control and process safety applications.
	Common controller platform for both SIMATIC PCS 7 and process control safety.
	User-friendly display of process safety information integrated into the operator interface of SIMATIC PCS 7.
	Automatic integration of safety-related diagnostics into the operator interface, with time stamp.
	Straightforward and seamless communications between the DCS and SIS.