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Biogasconditioningandgridfeed-inusingSiemenstechnology

Frankfurt/Germany.Inmid-June,theSiemensIndustryAu-tomation(IA)andDriveTechnologies(DT)divisionsshowcasedtheirrangeofsolutionsatthefirstVDIcongressonbiogasconditioningandgridfeed-in.Siemenspresentedanoverviewofthecurrentdrive,circuit,andautomationtechnology,instrumenta-tionandprocessgaschromatogra-phy.

Siemens provides Totally Integrated Au-tomation (TIA) solutions for biogas pro-duction that can be easily adapted in terms of gas quantities and functionality to different plant sizes and process tech-nologies. The Siemens Sitrans CV natu-ral gas chromatograph was developed specifically for assessing calorific values quickly, accurately and reliably and can be used for accurate energy analysis of biogas fed into the natural gas distribu-tion grid.

The drive technology for biogas produc-tion has to meet particularly high stan-dards of reliability, availability and safety since, in some cases, the continuous process runs in areas where there is a risk of explosion.

With its TIA solutions, Siemens has the most extensive portfolio of products and systems on the market for the integrated, economic and safe automation and energy management of biogas plants.

The first VDI biogas congress lasted two days and focused on biomethane condi-tioning and feed into the natural gas grid. Visitors to the congress, which was held on 22 and 23 June 2010 at the Frankfurt Lindner Congress Hotel, were able to find out in detail about the latest solutions and industry experience – from legal and con-tractual issues associated with grid con-nection and operation to technologies for improving the feed-in quality.

Biogas conditioning is regarded as one of the key technologies for sustainable ener-gy supply. In Germany there are already 30 plants feeding biomethane into the nat-ural gas grid. In addition, biomethane is suitable for conversion to electricity and heat and can be used as fuel at natural gas filling stations.

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Automation. “We wanted a few vendors and a very clean IT environment,” says Hans Wider-berg, CIO Volvo Aero. Volvo Aero therefore decided to use Siemens, Microsoft and SAP software for its IT systems. Siemens product lifecycle man-agement (PLM) software Team-

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Farnborough,UK.InJuly,theSiemensIndustryAutomation(IA)andDriveTech-nologies(DT)divisionswillbeparticipatingattheFarnbor-oughInternationalAirShow,thetopinternationalexhibitionandexecutiveeventfortheavi-ationindustry.

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From 18 to 25 July 2010 at the Farnborough Air Show, Siemens will be demonstrating how produc-tivity can be increased, time to market reduced and costs lowered under the heading “Answers for Aerospace and Defence”. A suc-cess story is the collaboration of Volvo Aero and Siemens Industry

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tant industry events and is at-tended by all the leading companies. The exhibition pres-ents new technologies and trends. A congress and seminar programme, a “Meet Your Buyer Day” and flying displays run alongside the exhibition. Contracts worth US$ 88.7 bil-lion were signed at the 2008 Farnborough Air Show.

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center is being used for data man-agement and tracking in product development and for configuration management. With the Siemens NX software, Volvo Aero can de-velop extremely lightweight com-ponents, a decisive competitive advantage in the industry.

Like Volvo Aero, a large number of international aircraft and engine manufacturers and suppliers rely on Siemens technology in product development and high-tech manu-facturing.

The Sinumerik CNC control sys-tem, for instance, ensures maxi-mum accuracy and productivity, shorter machine setup and idle times and an efficient production flow. Manufacturers benefit from holistic machine concepts and an end-to-end, integrated CAD-CAM-CNC process chain.

Customised Totally Integrated Au-tomation concepts in all areas of pre-assembly and final assembly offer aircraft manufacturers a high level of integration and productivi-ty. They make use of PLC, Scada

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systems, mobile panels and dis-tributed I/Os from the Simatic fam-ily, as well as the Sinamics S120 drive system.

Global players in the aerospace industry use Siemens PLM solu-tions to increase productivity, reduce processing times, lower costs and minimise risks – at every phase of the product lifecy-cle, including at the design, engi-neering and production phases, right through to maintenance. Customers and suppliers are inte-grated into the development cycle. This enables prompt visualisation, implementation of suggestions for improvement, a reduction in the development cycle and a lowering of lifecycle costs. Simatic IT, the modular Manufacturing Execution System, is used in the complex production processes involved in aircraft manufacture. The system lets manufacturers manage large volumes of data whilst ensuring that the data is traceable at all times.

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Bocholt/Germany.WitheffectfromMay�,20�0,A.Friedr.FlenderAktiengesell-schaft,Bocholt,wasmergedintoSiemensAktiengesell-schaft,BerlinandMunich.ThemergerinstallsTheoMaas(Dipl.Ing.)asCEOoftheSie-mensMechanicalDrivesBusi-nessUnit.

This marks the start of a new chapter in the history of the trans-mission and gearbox manufactur-ing company which was first es-tablished in 1899 in Düsseldorf-Reisholz under the name of A. Friedr. Flender & Co. From now on, the 2,500 employ-ees, most of whom work at the company headquarters in Bocholt in North Rhine Westphalia, will be working under the umbrella of Siemens AG, which acquired Flender back in 2005.

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The legal merger formally com-pletes the integration of Flender AG into Siemens AG. Flender‘s established brand name will be maintained as a badge of quality for Flender’s product families, covering its well-known portfolio of products and services: Gear units, couplings, applications, services and accessories.

The merger will enable the world-wide Flender products business to benefit even more from the global presence of Siemens AG. With its mechanical drive technology and its focus on specific product seg-ments, Flender fits perfectly into the portfolio of the Siemens Drive Technologies Division and rounds off our products and services relating to the electromechanical drive train,” says Theo Maas, explaining the advantages of the merger.

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considers to be one of their most strategically important projects of recent years.

Julphar believes that its success over the 30 years it has been operating can be attributed to the fact that it has always fol-lowed the latest regulations in the pharmaceutical industry, and has maintained the highest level of quality in all its products. Julphar sells over 180 products in more than 40 countries.

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RasAlKhaimah,UnitedArabEmirates.SiemensIndustryAutomation(IA)haswonafourmillioneurocontractfromGulfPharmaceuti-calIndustries-Julphar,oneofthelargestpharmaceuticalcom-paniesintheMiddleEast.Underthecontract,IAwillequipthenewhumaninsulinplantinRasAlKhaimahwiththeSimaticPCS7processcontrolsystem.Siemens’first-classbiopharma-ceuticalprocessknowledgeandexperience,combinedwithinno-vativeautomationproductsandsolutions,werethemainreasonthatJulpharoptedforSiemens.

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€4 million process control technologycontractfromGulfPharmaceuticalIndustries

Siemens is supplying the process control system including all proj-ect management, engineering and validation services for the entire lifecycle, from requirement specification and functional de-sign to installation and commis-sioning.

The contract was signed in the middle of May at the Julphar head office in Ras Al Khaimah (about 100 km north of Dubai). According to Dr Ayman Sahli, General Manager of Julphar, it is the start of a long-term relation-ship, initially focused on success-fully implementing what Julphar

From left: A. K. Joshi (Julphar, Senior Manager, Cost Control), E. Hammad (Julphar, Insulin Project Director), L. Hammendorp (Siemens, Director of Business Development, Pharma), Dr A. Sahli (Julphar General Manager), G. Pareijn (Siemens, Senior Manager Business Development, Pharma Europa & MENA), and H. Jibreel (Julphar Director of Projects)

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tency in drive technology and lean manufacturing techniques.” As well as manufacturing the PV units, Siemens will be offering sales and service solutions for the solar inverter market.

Siemens in Canada Siemens employs around 5,000 people in Canada in the areas of product development and pro-duction. The company plans and installs complex systems and projects, and tailors a wide range of solutions to meet indi-vidual requirements. For nearly 100 years, Siemens in Canada has stood for technical achieve-ments, innovation, quality and reliability.

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Burlington,Ontario/Canada.SiemensCanadaisenteringthemarketasalocalproducerofphotovoltaicinvertersandcreating�0newjobs.ItwillstartshippinglocallyproducedPVinvertersfromitsBurling-tonsiteinNovember20�0.

Thanks to production of PV invert-ers in Ontario, Siemens custom-ers will be able to invest in photo-voltaic systems that start at 10 kW. This means they can benefit from the Ontario government’s feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme, which requires a “national minimum” to be pro-duced locally. Siemens will source products from local suppliers, such as cabinets, e-houses (buildings used to house electrical components), transform-ers and wiring. “Our goal is to help our customers set up PV installa-tions that meet the requirements of the FiT tariff scheme recently introduced by the Ontario govern-

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ment,” explains Joris Myny, Vice-President Siemens Industry Auto-mation and Drive Technologies.

Ontario’s FiT scheme supports the development of renewable energy sources; it also gives manufactur-ers in Ontario new sales potential in a growth sector. “We welcome Siemens’ investment, which will help Ontario companies meet do-mestic content requirements, a very important factor in develop-ing the solar industry here in the province of Ontario,” says Sandra Pupatello, Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade. The aim of the FiT scheme is to increase the use of renew-able energy sources.

“By investing in this production fa-cility, Siemens Canada is creating 50 skilled positions in Ontario,” ex-plains Anthony Bezina, Siemens plant manager. “Siemens Canada has an established core compe-

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Plant-specific, configurable order scheduling and activation makes it possible to achieve a high level of capacity utilisation of physical resources and to minimise idle time. It can also help make con-siderable savings by moving some automated subsidiary plant maintenance processes to idle periods.

The operator user interface is tailored to the plant, and offers secure, near real-time data cap-ture. Sophisticated input checks prevent input errors and inform the user directly. Comprehensive standard analytical functions provide options for detailed data analysis and analysis of the finished products for further process optimisation.

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BadHomburgOber-Erlenbach/Germany.TheSiemensIndustryAutoma-tiondivisionismodernisingthebusinessITandprocesscon-troltechnologyoftheproduc-tionplantfordialysisconcen-tratesatFreseniusMedicalCareGmbHinBadHomburgOber-Erlenbach.SimaticIT,theManufacturingExecutionSystems(MES)software,actsasalinkbetweenSAPandthePCS7processcontrolsystem,optimisingplantcapacityutili-sationandincreasingflexibility.

Simatic IT supports integrated data flow for all necessary infor-mation into and out of production. System support is provided at ev-ery stage of the production pro-cess and creates a tight integra-tion of the different system levels. This considerably reduces the

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amount of effort and the error rate associated with the previous, paper-based production process. Electronic data capture makes the manufacturing path traceable and transparent.

Detailed planning and automatic activation of orders and batches are standard, along with total product genealogy and production analysis. As well as supplying the software products and associated hardware, including the relevant field devices, Siemens also pro-vided planning, engineering and installation services.

The online connection to the ERP system and automation lev-el enables fast and secure data exchange. Thanks to the result-ing flexibility, it is possible for production to adapt and react easily in the area of order man-agement.

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ders. Detailed application ex-amples from specific plants in various different sub-sectors of the water industry round off the DVD.

Both the Simatic Water Library and the Consultant DVD are available free of charge through the regional Siemens sales rep-resentatives.

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Nuremberg,GermanyThewatermanagementcon-ceptsfromtheSiemensIndus-tryAutomationdivisionnowcomewithnew,improvedfunctions.TheSimaticWaterLibrary,anefficient,powerfulmodularsoftwaresolutiontai-loredtotherequirementsofthewaterindustry,providesengineeringsupportforsys-temintegrators.AnupdatedversionofConsul-tantDVDisalsoavailable.Thetoolboxcontainsimpor-tantinformation,toolsanddocumentsforallplanningphasesofwaterandwastewa-terplants.

The new water library offers in-dustry-specific function blocks, including faceplates, for the Simatic PCS 7 process control system (based on the Advanced Process Library, APL) and the

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Scada system Simatic WinCC, combined with a wide variety of different functions:• integration of local panels in

mulit-level control operation• Integration of Simatic S7-300

controllers into Simatic PCS 7 projects

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The water library also contains a standard object list that can be used to clarify duties and respon-sibilities with process partners and simplifies the engineering considerably.

The new Consultant DVD con-tains a wealth of information, in-cluding product brochures, cata-logues and technical information. Text modules for industry-related products from all areas of auto-mation, drive and low voltage switch gear help with the produc-tion of specifications and ten-

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to demonstrate ways in which Windows 7 based industrial devic-es can help enhance productivity, transparency and user-friendli-ness.

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Video–NewPossibilitiesfortheInnovativeProductionLinehttps://www.automation.siemens.com/mcms/industrial-pc/en/support/news/video-new-possibilities/Pages/default.aspx

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Redmond,Washington/USA–Nuremberg.Theobjectivebehindacon-ceptstudyconductedjointlybytheSiemensIndustryAu-tomationDivisionandMicro-softistoimproveproductionprocessesusingPC-basedautomationandtherebytoin-creaseplantefficiency.Themainaimsincludecontinu-ousoptimization,intuitiveuserinterfacesandenhancedsafetyandsecurityforma-chinesandoperators.Thestudypresentssimplerwaysofmeetingtheserequire-mentsusingbothPC-basedautomationsystemsbySie-mensandWindows7-basedoperatingsystemsbyMicro-soft.

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MicrosoftandSiemenspresentjointconceptstudyonthe“innovativeproductionline”

For many years, Siemens has used Windows as a standardized operating system base for PC-based controllers, operating and monitoring systems as well as in-dustrial PCs. So, when Windows 7 was launched with its new functions and features, Siemens and Microsoft agreed to jointly develop this study. The study looks at issues such as new so-lutions for failsafe PC applica-tions and energy savings in plant operations. Detailed information about new future-oriented ways of operating multi-touch displays is now available to interested us-ers. Siemens is also using the results of the study to advance its HMI (Human Machine Inter-face) software and hardware products. Microsoft was keen

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racotta army, is the largest city in north-west China, with a popula-tion of around 8.5 million. In the future, the wastewater from the city and the surrounding area will be treated by six wastewater treatment plants. From 2006 to 2009 the city invested in the con-struction of the Xi‘an No. 4 plant. The fifth Xi’an plant is due to be-gin operation at the end of 2010, while the sixth is still in the de-sign phase.

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Xi’an,China.TheSiemensIndustryAutoma-tiondivisionhasequippedthefourthwastewatertreatmentplantinthecityofXi’aninChi-nawithautomationandprocesstechnology.Theplantalreadytreats2�0,000cubicmetresofwastewaterperday(phase�)andhasatotalcapacityof�00,000cubicmetres.

The new Xi’an No. 4 plant is the fourth of six wastewater treatment plants planned for the city of Xi’an. Xi’an No. 4 takes the volume of treated wastewater to 80 per cent and significantly improves the quality of the River Wei in the north of Xi’an. The treatment tech-nology uses a wide range of Sie-mens products, from the Simatic WinCC Scada system and HMI

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WastewatertechnologyforChinapanels to Simatic S7 controllers and Profinet connection and Sitrans process instrumentation.

Xi’an No. 4 is the first plant to use reverse AAO (anaerobic anoxic oxic) process technology: by swapping the anaerobic (no dis-solved oxygen, nitrate-free) and anoxic (no dissolved oxygen, with nitrate) zones in the sludge activa-tion phase, it is possible to achieve biological breakdown of phosphor without the addition of chemical precipitates.

Xi‘an, the capital of Shaanxi Prov-ince and home to the famous ter-

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lowering production costs. One focal point of the POC describes the possible applica-tions of the new Windows 7-based Windows Embedded Standard 7 technology for e.g. enterprise management, materials inbound logistics, assembly line and quality assur-ance.

Redmond,Washington,USA.TheMicrosoftWindowsEmbed-dedTeambasedinRedmond,USA,hasawardedtheSiemensIndustryAutomation(IA)divisionitsPartnerExcellenceAward20�0.TheMicrosoftawardrecognisesSiemens’collaborationontheInnovativeProductionLineproofofcon-

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Microsoft and Siemens worked together to develop the Innovative Production Line proof of concept (POC), which offers solutions to key issues, including reducing time to market for products, increasing plant reliability and

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TheSiemensIndustrySector(Erlangen, Germany) is the worldwide leading supplier of environmentally friendly production, transportation, building and lighting technologies. With integrated automation technolo-gies and comprehensive industry-specific solutions, Siemens increases the productivity, efficiency and flex-ibility of its customers in the fields of industry and infrastructure. The Sector consists of six divisions: Build-ing Technologies, Drive Technologies, Industry Automation, Industry Solutions, Mobility and Osram. With around 207,000 employees worldwide (September 30), Siemens Industry achieved in fiscal year 2009 total sales of approximately €35 billion. www.siemens.com/industry

TheSiemensDriveTechnologiesDivision (Nuremberg, Germany) is the world‘s leading supplier of prod-ucts and services for production machinery and machine tools. This includes standard products but also encompasses industry-specific control and drive solutions. Integrated technologies along the entire drive train with electrical and mechanical components offer highest potential to reduce energy consumption in industrial plants. The services provided by the Division include mechatronics support in addition to online services for web-based fault management and preventive maintenance. With around 36,000 employees worldwide (September 30), Siemens Drive Technologies achieved total sales of €7.5 billion in fiscal year 2009. www.siemens.com/drivetechnologies

TheSiemensIndustryAutomationDivision(Nuremberg, Germany) is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, industrial controls and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industries to solutions for whole industrial sectors that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. With around 39,000 employ-ees worldwide (September 30), Siemens Industry Automation achieved sales of €7.0 billion in fiscal year 2009. www.siemens.com/industryautomation

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