SIPLUS RIC

Success stories: Oil & Gas

Highly available coupling to PCS 7

Project:	Gas-Compressor-Station
Location:	Linz, Austria, OMV
Industrie:	Oil & Gas
Customer:	Siemens I&S
Project goal:	Establishing a data link to SIMATIC PCS 7 from remote outstation

Up to now:

	Cost-intensive, proprietary architecture
	Variety of components, different stocks, different maintenance

Solution:

	SIMATIC implemented RTU-Solution
	Adapted to redundant interface for PCS 7

Benefits / Achievements:

Savings in the project:

	Transparent SIMATIC based application
	One engineering tool
	One training

Proved, robust interface

Encapsulated control cabinets and control panels

Project:	Madero
Location:	Madero (Mexico)
Industrie:	Refinery
Customer:	Siemens PG L
Project goal:	Electronics in encapsulated cabinets protected against environmental factors

Up to now:

	Costly ventilation systems for areas with high air contamination
	No hermetically sealed encapsulation of entire cabinets and control panels

Solution:

SIPLUS extreme design for switching cabinets up to IP67 / NEMA 4x (stainless steel, not painted)

Benefits / Achievements:

Savings in the project:

	Simple configuring of the I&C cabinets
	Simple planning of the building and rooms

Savings during operation:

Operational reliability under extreme conditions (sand, dust and sulfur)