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www.siemens.com/hmi-success-stories
Open and industry-independent-
that distinguishes SIMATIC HMI
That Europes leading Operator control and monitoring systems are at home in all
industries is demonstrated by a lot of application reports, issued in magazines and journals.
Success stories of Panels, Multi Panels, PCs and Software systems.
Read the latest reports listed below or choose among more than 150 case
studies inside our libraries sorted by industry, applied technology or
products.
Latest case studies:
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"Mettle as strong as steel"-
Southland Tube broke ground on its new mill in the winter of 2005, vying to
break into the highly competitive and lucrative large structural steel tubing
market before anyone else in the region. Mill 5 and its startup within a tight
schedule became more than just the biggest ever realized expansion project in
the company´s history.Yet Steve Barret, plant engineer at
Southland Tube never lost confidence in his own work and in his partners at
Edison Automation. And there was never any doubt when it came time to choose
the automation platform: Totally Integrated Automation by Siemens.
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"Good news for the famous Aischgrund carps"-
The community of Adelsdorf in Southern Germany has newly automated and
uniformly visualized the operation of the sewage plant and water works
including all the remote buildings. Multiple redundant automation and control
technology makes the operation transparent, the system highly available and
relieves the strain on the community treasuryJ and operating
side.
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"Safety for tunnel trio"-
Antalya and Alanya, the two popular holiday resorts on the Turkish Riviera are
connected by a four-lane coast road. In Westerly direction towards Antalya the
road has three tunnels which were opened for traffic in 2006. These tunnels
with a length of 300 meters, 1,540 meters and 400 meters were equipped with an
efficient, highly available control system to ensure trouble-free and safe
operation and to be able to respond quickly in the case of an accident or
fire.
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"Opportunity-Tank truck for sale"-
The Peterstaler Mineralquellen GmbH operates filling plants for mineral water
and non alcoholic beverages at its headquarters in Bad Peterstal and in Bad
Rippoldsau. For more flexible utilization of the plants, both sites which are
14 km apart were joined by pipelines in a project which is unique in the
industry. At the same time, the entire transport system was automated to the
state-of-the-art to integrate the production on the control and operating
side.
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"A dead heat"-
It's hard to find out which process is the faster, turning barley into malt or
a ProTool project into a WinCC flexible project.
Zimmermann Malz a malthouse in the south of Germany has gained good experience
with both. Malting has a long tradition at Zimmermann, as the malthouse
supplies around 100 breweries in Southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria and
Italy.
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"Virtual technology, real benefits"-
The Airbus site in Laupheim, Germany delivers
complete cabin and cargo interiors for the entire Airbusfleet. For monitoring
the molding processes HMI system reliability is of particular importance. The
need for increased availability prompted an innovative solution which
ultimately brought with it a whole series of additional benefits: A system
equipped with virtual Web servers and Thin Clients on-site.
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"Where cars take the elevator"-
Germany's largest fully automatic parking ramp, located in Dresden, offers
parking space for some 200 vehicles in very tight quarters. Siemens industrial
automation and drive technology ensures fast, accident-free, user-convenient
operation. Operation and monitoring of internal processes is based on the
Simatic WinCC flexible visualization system, using the Sm@rt Access and Sm@rt Service options.
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"Each seat has got its place"-
Thinking that seat manufacturing could be managed by producing high volumes on
stock means to be on the wrong track. As a tier 1 supplier to Honda, TS Tech
is closely integrated into the vehicle assembly line. The seats required must
flow just-in-time into the continuing process. Ideal conditions for Totally
Integrated Automation by Siemens and a SCADA system with integrated diagnostic
functionality: WinCC
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"Perfectly refined"-
While coffee roasting is a relatively new division within the 300-year
tradition of the Dallmayer delicatessen house, it has become an important
pillar of the company over the past 70 years. And this is why Dallmayr coffee
is produced not only in Munich, but in Berlin as well. Alois Dallmayer Kaffee
Berlin GmbH produces about 200 tons of roasted coffee daily using control
technology from Siemens and WinCC.
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"Running smoothly"-
The production plants of Fuchs Europe Schmierstoffe GmbH extend over an area
of about 3 square kilometers in the north of Mannheim. WinCC flexible is used
here in a visualization system spanning several works for the time-controlled
switching of machines and lighting installations and for the central
processing of alarm messages from the production plants
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"Optimum from the prime coat"
The Volvo factory in Umeå is Volvos only
production site for truck cabs in Europe. In this factory
in Northern Sweden, 250 miles away from the Polar Circle,
the cabins for all Volvo models are built and then
transported to the assembly works in Gothenburg and Gent.
In the course of a capacity extension of the factory a new
painting plant for the prime paintwork of the driver cabs
had to be installed.
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