Demands for efficiency apply equally to production and maintenance. In practice, this means optimization of personnel and economical use of material and energy. Reliability and quality should be ensured and increased, and costs reduced. Future-oriented technology ensures efficient plant-based asset management

Just as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) und Controls (process and field level) provide a certain structure for the coordination and control of automated industrial plants, the complex of maintenance, and therefore asset management, can be subdivided and organized – with comparable management levels. The use of a common system at the control level offers many advantages.

The Maintenance Station visualizes maintenance information for a plant's main automation technology, from controller over network components to switchgear, protective gear and control gear and, of course, drives. Each component makes individual functionalities available for this purpose. Configuring of the Maintenance Station is nonetheless extremely simple, since the components can be integrated on the basis of established standards and uniform procedures.

SIMATIC Maintenance Station quickly gives you a clear overview of the state of your automation technology. The relevant data provided by the different nodes are uniformly and clearly visualized. Other views make it possible to see details whenever necessary.