SIMATIC IT Production Suite

SIMATIC IT is a collection of highly-integrated components, designed to coordinate the systems within each factory, standardize production across the entire enterprise and keep manufacturing processes aligned with supply chain activity.

SIMATIC IT provides a high level Framework-Concept environment that enables the description of the manufacturing processes and the operation procedures, by synchronizing and coordinating the functions provided by the individual components. These functions will properly perform the actions required for managing the production, such as orders management, material management, KPIs calculation and so on.

Business Benefits
SIMATIC IT Production Suite fills the gap between Business Logistic Systems (typically ERPs) and Control Systems, allowing the conditions for an increase in the efficiency of the overall supply chain. The unique approach of SIMATIC IT allows manufacturing systems to have a native flexibility that gives users the possibility to easily adapt and modify the business process to new requirements and business drivers.

• SIMATIC IT Production Suite gives manufacturers the possibility to model their own business in order to be much more customer oriented and ready to satisfy any sudden requirements arising from the market.
• SIMATIC IT Production Suite has also been designed to facilitate application roll-out to several plants thus being extremely cost effective in multi site situations.
• SIMATIC IT Production Suite effectively helps users to become compliant to existing regulations.

Production Benefits
SIMATIC IT Production Suite offers a set of modules able to cover the MES core requirements in any manufacturing context. By modeling and defining the production procedures, SIMATIC IT Production Suite effectively increases the visibility upon the whole production process.

• Tracking and tracing of materials can be configured in order to adhere perfectly with the real process.
• It is possible to have a clear view of the material usage creating the conditions to reduce stocks, to have a deeper analysis of production costs and an efficient management of scraps and reworks.
• SIMATIC IT Production Suite has also the in-built capability of reconstructing the complete material genealogy, either backwards or forwards.
• SIMATIC IT Framework that acts as coordinator and integrator of different systems, each one dealing with its own specific scope, thus providing e real added value to the production system as a whole.

IT Benefits
The basic approach of SIMATIC IT offers the possibility to model business rules in a graphical way so as to represent the interactions and the expected flow of information among different software components, also external to the SIMATIC IT Production Suite set of components. SIMATIC IT Libraries, classes and inheritance mechanisms create the conditions to allow a painless rollout and reutilization of SIMATIC IT Production Suite applications.

• SIMATIC IT Production Suite allows users to focus on process issues rather than IT issues.
• SIMATIC IT Production Suite completely hides the technological part and requires a great deal less skill compared to the development of standard MES implementations.
• Costs for maintenance and application modification are dramatically low.
• Siemens partners can create their own SIMATIC IT Libraries, coding in this way, their own expertise, making it easily reusable thus dramatically lowering the average development time for MES projects.

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