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SIMATIC IT Production Suite V 7.0 Functional Overview

December 2015

A Functional Overview issued by: Siemens. © Siemens AG 2015. All rights reserved.

Functional Overview | SIMATIC IT Production Suite V 7.0 – December 2015

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Contents

Introduction...................................................................................... 4

MES and Production Modelling ...................................................... 4

Standards and Compliance ............................................................. 4

ISA-95 Compliance .......................................................................... 4

21 CFR Part 11 Compliance .............................................................. 5

Why focus on MES and Production Modeling? .................................... 6

Business issues .............................................................................. 6

Production issues ........................................................................... 6

IT issues ......................................................................................... 7

How you can succeed ........................................................................ 8

The SIMATIC IT model ..................................................................... 8

Business Benefits ........................................................................... 8

Production Benefits ........................................................................ 8

IT Benefits ..................................................................................... 8

Total Integration ............................................................................ 9

SIMATIC IT Production Suite............................................................. 10

Overview ..................................................................................... 10

SIMATIC IT Production Modeler .................................................... 10

Overview ....................................................................................... 10

Plant Model ................................................................................... 10

Execution Model ............................................................................ 11

SIMATIC IT Components................................................................ 11

SIMATIC IT At Line Testing (ALT)...................................................... 11

SIMATIC IT Defect Manager (DM) .................................................... 12

SIMATIC IT Production Suite Long Term Archiving (PRS LTA) ............. 12



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SIMATIC IT Product Definition Manager (PDefM) .............................. 12

SIMATIC IT Production Order Manager (POM) .................................. 12

SIMATIC IT Material Manager (MM) ................................................. 12

SIMATIC IT Personnel Manager (PrM) .............................................. 13

SIMATIC IT Shift Calendar (SHC) ...................................................... 13

SIMATIC IT Messaging Manager (MsM) ............................................ 14

SIMATIC IT Data Integration Service (DIS) ........................................ 14

SIMATIC IT Plant Performance Analyzer (PPA) .................................. 14

SIMATIC IT Client Application Builder (CAB) .................................. 14

SIMATIC IT Portal ........................................................................... 14

SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability Framework ..................................... 15

Major features in SIMATIC IT Production Suite 7.0 ............................ 16

What’s New in SIMATIC IT Production Suite v 7.0 ........................... 16

Technological upgrades ................................................................ 16

Client Application Builder ............................................................. 16

Data Integration Service............................................................... 16

At-Line-Testing ............................................................................. 16


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MES and Production Modelling

In the early Nineties, industries acknowledged the

need for a layer to integrate and link Business Sys-

tems with Control Systems. The term Manufactur-

ing Execution Systems (MES) has been used from

the start to specify all those functions and products

that satisfy this need.

Initially, MES indicated a “gray” area that was a

hodgepodge of almost every application or product

that could not be clearly assigned to either the

Business System or the Control System layer. Most

of these products were spinoffs of applications

developed by a System Integrator for a particular

Customer and were generally focused on a very

specific area (i.e. scheduling, laboratory, quality,

tracking…).

After some time, international organizations ad-

dressed the need for a clearer definition of MES:

MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Associa-

tion) and, as a consequence, ISA (Instrumentation

System and Automation Society) later developed

models that describe these levels and seek to

standardize them.

Under the pressure of new business-driving forces

that have been emerging in recent decades, Manu-

facturing Plants continue to play a major role. The

globalization of both companies and production

processes makes it necessary to create new models.

Manufacturing is not a process that can be com-

pleted by a single self-enclosed entity, but extends

beyond the bounds of the Plant, the Country and

the Enterprise.

Therefore, MES cannot act simply as an interface

between Business and Process layers, but requires a

substantial number of functions that are crucial to a

Company’s success. Rather than remaining distinct

from one another, connected solely by a data ex-

change layer, these functions need to be coordi-

nated, in adherence to the Business and Production

strategy.

ISA-95 documents point this out very clearly, de-

scribing the MES process in terms of both data and

interaction between functions (e.g. Order Dispatch-

ing, Resource Management).

The result is a new approach to MES, based on an

architecture that allows describing Business Pro-

cesses that orchestrate functionalities provided by a

set of specialized and affordable Components.

At the same time, this orchestration must also in-

volve the Automation and Control level, thereby

making both MES and Control part of the same

Collaborative Production Management system.

Standards and Compliance

ISA-95 Compliance

ISA-95 is acknowledged as the most authoritative standard for MES applications. Not only Market Ana-lysts such as AMR (www.amrresearch.com) and ARC (www.arcweb.com) confirm this, but also several major vendors adopt this standard. In addition to Siemens, we can find, for example, SAP and Microsoft. Siemens works in close conjunction with ISA and was the very first MES vendor to offer a comprehensive product implementing the ISA-95 standard. This trans-lates into standardized terminology, concepts and models for integrating manufacturing operations functions with enterprise functions. Such standardiza-tion is achieved with ISA-95, which defines the func-tional view of an enterprise, allowing a simple generic model of work activities to be applied to the main areas of manufacturing. As a member of the ISA-95 Committee, Siemens actively contributes to the fur-ther development of this standard.

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Complying with ISA-95 makes it possible to reap

some important benefits: in particular, for what

concerns defining the hierarchical model of the

MES solution, which simplifies developing solutions

that are both standard yet flexible, while still satis-

fying customer requirements in full.

21 CFR Part 11 Compliance

In order to address regulated industries (such as

Pharma), SIMATIC IT provides a built-in service (the

installation of which is optional) depending on the

requirements. This service (SIMATIC IT Compliance

Service) provides support for the 21 CFR Part 11

requirements for Audit Trail and Electronic Signa-

ture. Several installations in regulated industries

successfully proved SIMATIC IT support in certifying

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On a daily basis, a variety of figures in charge of

different activities face problems that involve man-

ufacturing systems. Implementing MES and deploy-

ing the right production model can provide a solu-

tion to many of these issues. In broad outline, the

problems encountered concern:

• Business

• Production

• IT

Business issues

Do you want to increase the overall efficiency of

your supply chain?

Supply-chain efficiency is strongly affected by how

the Business level (ERP) and the Shop Floor (Con-

trol) interact. MES represents the go-between,

which, when streamlined and efficient, contributes

to a better Supply Chain.

Is your system able to react quickly to new con-

ditions and new market requirements?

In today’s world of manufacturing, the ability to

adapt to new operational requirements (i.e. chang-

es in product specifications, quality procedures…)

and environmental conditions (i.e. introduction of

new standards…) is paramount to success. If your

system is ready to meet these challenges, the re-

ward may be a significant increase in your competi-

tiveness, as well as impressive savings in terms of

costs.

Is your production process standardized across

all plants?

Guaranteeing uniform, consistent production pro-

cedures is a key issue in today's business. If this is

lacking, then the result may be uneven quality of

your product from one facility to another. Control

System and Business System cannot solve the prob-

lem, as a structured and modeled environment is

required in order to seamlessly coordinate the pro-

duction process, also in different contexts (e.g.

different hardware and software installation bases).

Are you ready for new regulations?

Some established standards and regulations, such

as FDA, already exist to guarantee high-quality

products. However, new regulations, as well as the

need for exhaustive material traceability, are affect-

ing manufacturing procedures substantially. MES

can help you achieve compliancy with these regula-

tions and maintain full accountability of materials.

Would you like your business to be more cus-

tomer-oriented?

Standard monolithic applications often represent a

barrier to implementing an efficient system that

can adapt and satisfy ever-changing requirements

from both the customer and the market. In view of

the growing demands posed by Customers, MES

can make your system much more flexible and

adaptable.

Production issues

Do you handle reworks and scraps properly? Do

you track how your materials are used with pre-

cision?

Typically, reworks and scraps cannot be handled by

control systems. Without appropriate management,

excessive waste or uncontrolled material tracking

can also affect the quality of your final product. In

addition, overall material tracking throughout the

production process is now a crucial factor for both

accounting and the correct evaluation of produc-

tion costs. S

Do you need to increase visibility of your produc-

tion process? Is your system able to provide Pro-

duction-related KPIs and advanced reporting?

To fully comprehend how your plant is performing,

you need a system that can generate production

reporting correlating process-control specific data

with production-related data (i.e. order number,

lots, personnel, materials…) to facilitate trouble-

shooting and analyzing performance problems. MES

can heighten visibility in the production process,

creating the right conditions to promote improve-

ment and increase your manufacturing system’s

efficiency.

Do you need to raise your level of quality? Are

you able to pinpoint contaminated lots or out-of-

spec finished-goods lots? Are you able to back-

track your production with accuracy?

If not, you might be unable to address specific is-

sues regarding the quality of your product. You may

also be unable to respond to customer complaints

appropriately or organize product recalls promptly.

An efficient MES system can provide complete ge-

nealogy, being able to track materials throughout

the entire production process. It also follows all

material transformations with precision until the

final product is produced and delivered to the final

customer.

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Does your system react efficiently to production

problems? Do you re-schedule your plant activi-

ties properly?

What if something goes wrong on the shop floor?

Efficient management of failures and downtimes is

a must. Often, several systems need to be involved

in order to solve the problem (maintenance must be

informed, rescheduling is necessary, certain people

must be notified as soon as possible…). Poor coor-

dination leads to using resources in an ineffective

manner, ultimately raising your production costs.

Is your ERP System working with the Manufactur-

ing Operations System efficiently?

To optimize Supply Chain efficiency, the Business

Logistic System must be informed in real-time as to

what is happening on the Shop Floor, especially in

terms of Production Performance. This is especially

useful in terms of planning, as well as both material

and warehouse management.

Is your manufacturing system totally integrated?

Total integration between Process Control, MES and

ERP is essential in today's business. The manufac-

turing system consists in the joint efforts of a varie-

ty of functions. Good integration can make a differ-

ence for attaining top-level efficiency: on the con-

trary, poor integration can hinder your efforts to

improve plant performance.

IT issues

Is your System properly integrated and synchro-

nized? Are there so many links between applica-

tions that communication is difficult? Are your IT

maintenance costs too high?

A myriad of links between your Software Packages

greatly increases the complexity of the manufactur-

ing system. In turn, costs for IT maintenance and

program modification become staggering. This is

mainly due to the lack of coordination and flexibil-

ity of the majority of manufacturing applications.

The modeling approach can effectively simplify

integration and actively coordinate the interaction

and the flow of information between different ap-

plications on site.

Is implementation too expensive? Do you fre-

quently assess projects as falling in the "high-

risk" category?

Being able to employ reusable solutions creates the

conditions for streamlining and speeding up project

implementations. Total ownership costs can be cut

dramatically, thanks to efficient software reusabil-

ity.

Does sharing your know-how represent an ob-

stacle? Would you like to re-use your expertise

and your software effortlessly?

Efficient reusability of software is key to effective

cost saving. Being able to "code" the expertise per-

mits the rapid transfer of know-how between users,

which is usually not feasible with standard applica-

tions. Without a modeling environment to help you

define business procedures, focusing on the pro-

duction process rather than specific IT issues, the

understanding of complex manufacturing applica-

tions is rather difficult, making it virtually impossi-

ble to modify or reutilize code.

Do you need a more streamlined environment

for monitoring and troubleshooting?

Typically, a production system is a complex integra-

tion of software applications and physical devices.

Pinpointing problems and debugging are serious

issues that require a great deal of effort and ulti-

mately cost money. If you are able to model and run

programs and business procedures from a single

environment involving several systems, then ex-

tended monitoring and troubleshooting become

more than just a possibility.

Is it difficult for you to maintain your team’s

technological skills at top level? Are the costs to

train your staff in line with state-of-the-art tech-

nology excessive?

Applications are very often numerous and custom-

ized to satisfy specific needs. As a result, frequently,

the person with the most know-how is used to

develop and maintain these applications. Such

competence is very difficult to maintain, as well as

very expensive. By adopting SIMATIC IT, which co-

vers all functionalities in an integrated and homog-

enous environment, complex manufacturing sys-

tems can be implemented with ease, making the

tasks involved viable even for those users who pos-

sess basic technological skills.


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The SIMATIC IT model

Today, increasing competitiveness is mandatory for

manufacturing companies.

MES is crucial to guaranteeing overall component

integration, ensuring maximum quality and produc-

tion efficiency across all global facilities. Siemens

was one of the first to understand the challenges

facing manufacturing industries, offering SIMATIC

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

SIMATIC IT provides a high-level environment that

enables the definition of the manufacturing pro-

cesses and operating procedures, synchronizing

and coordinating the functions provided by its sin-

gle components. These functions will carry out

what is required to manage production, such as

order management, material management, KPI

calculation and so on.

SIMATIC IT Production Suite has been developed to

provide cross-industry functions. Through layered

libraries, objects defined in SIMATIC IT Production

Suite can be more and more specialized in order to

address specific industry segments.

A dedicated team at Siemens provides pre-built

objects and examples ready for use in actual pro-

jects. They can be used either “as is”, or slightly

modified to fit the context where they will be em-

ployed. These pre-built objects are part of SIMATIC

IT Cross Industry Libraries.

Business Benefits

SIMATIC IT Production Suite fills the gap between

Business Logistic Systems (typically, ERPs) and Con-

trol Systems, providing the conditions for increasing

overall supply-chain efficiency. The unique ap-

proach of SIMATIC IT allows manufacturing systems

to have a native flexibility that gives users the pos-

sibility to easily adapt and modify the business

process to new requirements and business drivers.

• SIMATIC IT Production Suite allows manufactur-

ers to model their own business to be much

more customer-oriented and ready to satisfy any

on-the-fly requirements from the market.

• SIMATIC IT Production Suite has also been de-

signed to facilitate application roll-out to several

plants, thus being extremely cost-effective in

multi-site contexts.

• SIMATIC IT Production Suite effectively helps

users to comply with 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

production procedures, SIMATIC IT Production Suite

effectively increases visibility on the entire produc-

tion process.

• Tracking and tracing of materials can be config-

ured in order to match the actual process with

precision.

• Having a clear view of material usage makes it

possible to reduce stock, analyze production

costs in greater detail and manage scraps and

reworks in an efficient manner.

• SIMATIC IT Production Suite can rebuild the com-

plete material genealogy (both backward and

forward).

• SIMATIC IT coordinates and integrates a variety

of systems, each with its own scope, thereby

providing true added value to the production sys-

tem as a whole.

IT Benefits

The basic approach of SIMATIC IT makes it possible

to model business rules in a graphical way so as to

represent the interactions and the expected flow of

information among different software components

(including those that are not part of SIMATIC IT

Production Suite). SIMATIC IT Libraries, classes and

inheritance mechanisms create the conditions for

an effortless rollout and reutilization of SIMATIC IT

Production Suite applications.

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• SIMATIC IT Production Suite permits users to

focus on process issues, rather than IT issues.

• In SIMATIC IT Production Suite, technological

aspects are transparent to the user, who, as a re-

sult, requires fewer skills than what is normally

required to develop standard MES implementa-

tions.

• Costs for maintenance and application modifica-

tion are pared to the bone.

• Siemens partners can create their own SIMATIC

IT Libraries, coding their own expertise and mak-

ing it easily reusable, thus dramatically reducing

the average development time for MES projects.

Total Integration

Siemens is committed to providing complete solu-

tions to their customers, from field devices to MES.

This is part of the TIA concept (Total Integrated

Automation). What Siemens offers can satisfy a full

range of requirements for automation in the manu-

facturing market. Its native integration provides

considerable advantages.

Such an ample range of totally integrated products

leads to faster implementation and effective engi-

neering, creating the conditions to attain greater

productivity in the company’s workflow.

In the Siemens TIA strategy, SIMATIC IT is the MES

player. While maintaining its capability of integrat-

ing third-party software and components, SIMATIC

IT has an active role in the TIA concept.

In this way, SIMATIC IT benefits from the integration

with the rest of Siemens’s products, supplying a

vast range of pre-configured objects ready to be

instantiated and used without requiring any addi-

tional engineering effort. As a result, both rapid

project implementation and native integration

throughout the manufacturing system are ensured.


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Overview

Siemens is one of the first manufacturers to focus

on MES. 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 manufactur-

ing processes aligned with supply-chain activity.

SIMATIC IT provides a high-level environment that

permits modeling all manufacturing business pro-

cesses, by synchronizing and coordinating the func-

tions provided by the single components. These

functions will properly execute the actions required

for managing the production, such as order man-

agement, material management, KPI calculation

and so forth

The core of this system is called SIMATIC IT Produc-

tion Suite. It is a collection of components for de-

signing, implementing and maintaining Manufac-

turing Execution Systems.

SIMATIC IT Production Suite is made up of SIMATIC

IT Production Modeler and SIMATIC IT Compo-

nents: • SIMATIC IT Production Modeler is a modeling

environment in which the functions, belonging to different SIMATIC IT Components, are com-bined graphically in order to explicitly define the execution logic (explicit-rules approach).

In SIMATIC IT Production Modeler, the plant

model is created in terms of physical objects

(tangible devices and equipment) and logical

objects (software packages and applications). • SIMATIC IT Components provide basic and

guaranteed functionality. Each component ad-dresses specific manufacturing issues (e.g. Or-der Management, Material Management, Per-sonnel Management, …)

SIMATIC IT Production Suite also permits integrating Third-Party components and legacy applications. Typically, existing applications residing on site are integrated inside Production Suite so that they are coordinated and invoked according to the logic defined in SIMATIC IT Production Modeler. In this manner, these external applications can be orches-trated by SIMATIC IT as if they were SIMATIC IT Components. SIMATIC IT PM can coordinate the entire process and all involved applications. The end result is dynamic cross-system integration, thereby increasing overall efficiency.

SIMATIC IT Production Modeler

Overview

The core component is SIMATIC IT Production Mod-

eler. An object-oriented graphical tool, it enables

the user to follow the entire lifecycle of a MES pro-

ject, from its design to its commissioning phase,

whereas Components provide all basic functionali-

ties to run manufacturing processes and, ultimately,

fulfill their specific requirements.

SIMATIC IT Production Modeler offers a modeling

environment in which the various functions provid-

ed by SIMATIC IT Components are graphically com-

bined to define the execution logics representing

the operating procedures. These logics are called

Production Operations and are presented as rules

(workflows), in which each step represents the

execution of a function provided by a component. To achieve this, SIMATIC IT Production Modeler also offers the modeling environment to build the Plant Model, essential for defining the plant’s various behaviors.

Plant Model

The plant model describes all those elements that concur to achieving manufacturing targets. In de-tail, these elements can be either physical or logi-cal. Physical Elements are those actually used in the manufacturing cycle, and represent the Shop Floor; they may be simple elements (such as a reactor, a

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mixer, a packaging line), or present greater com-plexity (such as an assembly line, a continuous casting machine, etc.). Logical Elements are all those software components that contribute to fulfilling the manufacturing cy-cle, with the goal of managing the necessary in-formation to track and manage the entire produc-tion. Here are some examples of Logical Elements: a LIMS, a material manager, a mathematical model, a graphic interface, an order manager, etc.

Execution Model

Once the plant model is properly defined, it is nec-

essary to describe the plant behavior, in the sense

that the functionality of the model’s elements

(Physical and Logical) must be synchronized and

coordinated in order to support the operating pro-

cedures representing the plant’s daily operations.

SIMATIC IT offers standard functionalities through

SIMATIC IT Components. Material Management

(genealogy, tracking & tracing, etc.) and Order

Management (order sequencing, dispatching, etc.).

Together, these functionalities make it possible to

define Business Rules. Rules explicitly represent the

workflows that drive the components’ functions; as

a result, they are the actual application. A rule is

graphically modeled. It sequences the actions by

invoking the appropriate functions that are execut-

ed by the components and each function is invoked

in each step of the Business Rule.

SIMATIC IT Components

Components are designed to provide the function-

ality to update the status of the plant’s elements,

maintain historical records, transform materials,

modify orders and so forth. Therefore, each com-

ponent is specialized in performing particular ac-

tions. For example, SIMATIC IT Material Manager

(the component for handling materials) provides

functionality related to material management, such

as Material Master Data definition (and/or import

from an ERP System), including the Bills of Material.

This component will also handle material transfor-

mations throughout the manufacturing operations,

as in a food plant, where ingredients are mixed to

obtain final products. It thus enables the possibility

of building the entire genealogy of products.

A similar approach is adopted for other functionali-

ties, such as Order Management, Personnel Man-

agement and Product Definition Management.

Modeling a Business Rule means sequencing the

functionalities exposed by different components so

that a certain manufacturing target is achieved.

SIMATIC IT Components are engineered and fully

harmonized inside the overall architecture and

provide detailed functions for handling Manufactur-

ing processes.

The orchestration of the functions exposed by the

Components, guaranteed by SIMATIC IT Production

Modeler, represents the solution provided by

SIMATIC IT for MES applications.

SIMATIC IT At Line Testing (ALT)

According to the international ISA-95 standard,

production processes and output must be subjected

to quality tests. In addition to ensuring that the

correct resources (equipment, materials and per-

sonnel) are used, quality tests check that products

conform to quality standards and can be released

(within specified conditions).

Of the various types of quality tests that can be

conducted, At-Line tests are crucial to streamlining

the testing process and provide line operators with

test results almost instantaneously.

In At-Line tests, items or samples are taken out of

the production stream and an operator at the pro-

duction line performs the inspection and fills in

forms with results of the analysis. As At-line tests

require only seconds or minutes to be conducted,

the production process is not interrupted.

SIMATIC IT At-Line Testing is designed to cover the-

se functionalities, which are a top priority for most

customers.

Thanks to this component, by configuring Work

Instructions (i.e. a number of tests/actions an oper-

ator must perform on a sample within a certain

time frame) represented by Forms that are then

displayed at runtime, production operators are

aided in executing quality tests effortlessly at the

right time.

The quality tests are designed to inspect/analyze

certain properties (Parameters) of the material

being produced at specific time intervals. Another

example of a Work Instruction is a check list (e.g.

Electronic Work Instructions) to be used for quality

checks.

Electronic Work Instructions can be displayed to line

operators so that they can check how much of

which ingredients is required to produce a certain

quantity of product and whether or not these in-

gredients are currently available. Operators will also

be asked to ensure that these ingredients are in

optimal condition (for example, at room tempera-

ture), prior to starting production.

At-line testing means not only performing checks

on a finished product, but also controlling quality


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aspects that play a role in the finished product's

production as well.

At the end of this process, the company can decide

to adopt corrective actions if the analysis results do

not satisfy the specification limits defined during

configuration.

SIMATIC IT Defect Manager (DM)

SIMATIC IT Defect Manager (DM) is in charge of

archiving and handling defect-related information.

Both GSI and BREAD dedicated interfaces are pro-

vided.

SIMATIC IT Production Suite Long Term Archiving (PRS LTA)

SIMATIC IT Production Suite Long Term Archive (PRS

LTA) makes it possible to copy SITMesDB data to an

archiving database having the same structure and

that can be accessed whenever needed through

SQL queries. In detail, SIMATIC IT PRS LTA can be

used to:

• Transfer data to LTA database.

• Purge data from SITMesDB database.

• Import/export SITMesDB data through files.

• Import/export the MBR (Product Production

Rule)-relevant data through files.

SIMATIC IT Product Definition Manager (PDefM)

It maps requirements for Product Definition Man-

agement. PDefM supports all definitions related to

products. It defines the Process Segments (se-

quences of operations with resources and parame-

ters) necessary to produce a product. With PDefM,

product specifications are defined in a centralized

manner and all the components (in particular, Pro-

duction Modeler) use them to execute the manu-

facturing actions.

SIMATIC IT Production Order Manager (POM)

It maps requirements for Production Dispatching.

POM performs all functionalities related to order

execution and, in particular, the customization of

Master Order Data (imported from the ERP) for

tracking execution-oriented info related to orders.

It also handles production-order dispatching, order-

status updating and tracking, historical database

updating.

SIMATIC IT Material Manager (MM)

MM can interface the ERP System for material mas-

ter data imports and performs material-oriented

functions, with particular reference to Material


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Master Data customization for fulfilling require-

ments regarding execution, as well as tracking and

tracing. As international regulations for tracking

finished products constantly evolve and become

ever-more stringent, MM focuses on the aspects of

material genealogy, providing native functionality

for navigating a final product’s history both back-

ward and forward. In addition, it handles material

location management, material transformations,

material availability, historical-database updating.

SIMATIC IT Personnel Manager (PrM)

People are an essential resource in the manufactur-

ing system. PrM permits assigning individuals to

shifts, as well as logging each person's detailed

activities during the work shift. It also permits inte-

grating personnel data and production data: for

example, checking the personnel required for a

task, or logging on which equipment, material lot,

batch or order on which each person worked.

SIMATIC IT Shift Calendar (SHC)

SIMATIC IT Shift Calendar (SHC) centralizes and

manages calendar information to be shared with

other SIMATIC IT components (in particular, SIMATIC

IT Personnel Management and SIMATIC IT Produc-

tion Modeler), thus aiding users in both managing

resources (i.e. personnel and equipment) and

scheduling activities for a plant. The most im-

portant engineering activities performed in SIMATIC

IT SHC concern defining and generating Shift Cal-

endars.

SIMATIC IT SHC allows you to:

• Define a master working schedule, including

working times and breaks;

• Define the plant's holidays;

• Generate the actual Shift Calendar of the plant.


SIMATIC IT Messaging Manager (MsM)

The manual activities performed by operators must

be synchronized with the automatic tasks executed

by MES. MsM facilitates the implementation of the

manual activities and the synchronization with the

tasks performed by the rest of the system.

SIMATIC IT Data Integration Service (DIS)

This component enables communication between

SIMATIC IT and Third-Party systems, such as ERP

Systems, thus providing integration without the

need to develop custom applications.

reliable message transport among app

different types and behaves as a generic data

transport layer. XML is the preferred standard for

message exchange. Connectors are provided for

various external systems, such as SAP, Windows File

System, .NET, COM, ADO.

SIMATIC IT Plant Performance Analyzer(PPA)

SIMATIC IT Plant Performance Analyzer

quirements for Production Data Collection

as for Production Performance Analysis. PPA collects

process and production data from

sources, either through polling or on

perform calculations on multiple data and

tualizes the results against production events, like

Production Operations, Process Segments or Batc

es, establishing and maintaining persistent rel

tionships between data and the relative

contexts. Contextualization may differ

on the user’s role, satisfying needs at

Plant or Site level.

December 2015

SIMATIC IT Messaging Manager (MsM)

The manual activities performed by operators must

be synchronized with the automatic tasks executed

by MES. MsM facilitates the implementation of the

manual activities and the synchronization with the

tasks performed by the rest of the system.

ata Integration Service

This component enables communication between

Party systems, such as ERP

providing integration without the

need to develop custom applications. DIS ensures

reliable message transport among applications of

different types and behaves as a generic data

transport layer. XML is the preferred standard for

message exchange. Connectors are provided for

SAP, Windows File

rmance Analyzer

Plant Performance Analyzer maps re-

ata Collection, as well

Production Performance Analysis. PPA collects

from a multitude of

on event. It can

on multiple data and contex-

tualizes the results against production events, like

Production Operations, Process Segments or Batch-

ing and maintaining persistent rela-

relative production

contexts. Contextualization may differ, depending

ing needs at the Area,

SIMATIC IT Client Application Builder (CAB)

SIMATIC IT CAB is a development platform to create

custom GUIs focused on displaying MES data in a

Web application, providing solutions that can be

integrated with SIMATIC IT components. Using CAB,

you can develop clients specifically designed to

access data in the SIMATIC IT database interacting

with SIMATIC IT components and services.

SIMATIC IT Portal

SIMATIC IT Portal is an “out-of-the-box” Web front

end for the entire MES project, including user pre

erences, and user and permission management.

This ASP .NET web application requires zero deve

opment effort, and represents the official CAB Po

tal application that serves as the Product portal web

site for SIMATIC IT services and components.

Gradual extension and customization to the out

box solution, as well as seamless integration with

SIMATIC IT and 3rd-party solutions, is

only step necessary to start developing your CAB

Portal Web application is to install the SIMATIC IT

CAB Portal Starter Kit.

The CAB Portal Starter Kit is a fully-functional sa

ple web application used to build complex web

scenarios interacting with SIMATIC IT Services and

Components.

The Starter Kit provides two extendable and cu

tomizable ASP.NET page templates in addition to all

the administrative pages required for managing the

web application. Once installed, CAB Portal Web

applications can be developed in MS Visual Studio

environment.

The development process, management and cu

tomization of rich MES applications are made sea

less with the most up-to-date CAB technology:

Packaging.

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Client Application

is a development platform to create

splaying MES data in a

Web application, providing solutions that can be

integrated with SIMATIC IT components. Using CAB,

you can develop clients specifically designed to

access data in the SIMATIC IT database interacting

vices.

box” Web front-

end for the entire MES project, including user pref-

erences, and user and permission management.

This ASP .NET web application requires zero devel-

official CAB Por-

tal application that serves as the Product portal web

site for SIMATIC IT services and components.

Gradual extension and customization to the out-of-

box solution, as well as seamless integration with

party solutions, is possible. The

only step necessary to start developing your CAB

Portal Web application is to install the SIMATIC IT

functional sam-

ple web application used to build complex web

ing with SIMATIC IT Services and

provides two extendable and cus-

tomizable ASP.NET page templates in addition to all

the administrative pages required for managing the

web application. Once installed, CAB Portal Web

can be developed in MS Visual Studio

The development process, management and cus-

tomization of rich MES applications are made seam-

date CAB technology: CAB


CAB Packages are compressed, encrypted and d

ployed CAB Portal applications developed with the

CAB Portal Starter Kit, enclosing web contents such

as web pages, user controls, images, scripts and the

dynamic contents into a single unique file. They can

be fully integrated with CAB Portal applications and

are automatically configured to retrieve data from

the active SIMATIC IT database. This “minimum

effort” approach eliminates the need to break down

the main code of the application to extend its fun

tionalities. Packages can be installed, updated,

removed and are subject to version management. A

user-friendly step-by-step guide to creating or u

dating by means of CAB Packaging Wizard, which is

also a part of the CAB Portal Starter Kit.

Several pre-built packages that can be installed into

the SIMATIC IT Portal, called Web Displays are su

plied. SIMATIC IT Web Displays facilitate advanced

data visualization and management for SIMATIC IT

components such as POM, MM, SHC, and UOM

directly from the SIMATIC IT Portal pages.

Installation and management of Web

other CAB Packages is done via the SIMATIC IT Po

tal Administration Console. The Administration

Console is a ready-to-use Web application that si

plifies and speeds up CAB Portal configuration.

SIMATIC IT Portal Administration Console also pr

vides full support for CAB Portal-based solutions,

with enhanced maintenance and administration of

multiple CAB applications.

SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability Framework

In certain cases, when customizing web pages,

adopting the classic means provided by

CAB is not sufficient to permit integrators to satisfy

particular customer needs. To obtain greater fre

dom in web-page customization, integrators can

use SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability Framework:

embedded in SIMATIC IT CAB, this highly

December 2015

CAB Packages are compressed, encrypted and de-

CAB Portal applications developed with the

CAB Portal Starter Kit, enclosing web contents such

as web pages, user controls, images, scripts and the

dynamic contents into a single unique file. They can

be fully integrated with CAB Portal applications and

re automatically configured to retrieve data from

the active SIMATIC IT database. This “minimum

effort” approach eliminates the need to break down

the main code of the application to extend its func-

tionalities. Packages can be installed, updated,

nd are subject to version management. A

step guide to creating or up-

dating by means of CAB Packaging Wizard, which is

also a part of the CAB Portal Starter Kit.

built packages that can be installed into

al, called Web Displays are sup-

plied. SIMATIC IT Web Displays facilitate advanced

data visualization and management for SIMATIC IT

components such as POM, MM, SHC, and UOM

directly from the SIMATIC IT Portal pages.

Installation and management of Web Displays and

other CAB Packages is done via the SIMATIC IT Por-

tal Administration Console. The Administration

use Web application that sim-

plifies and speeds up CAB Portal configuration.

SIMATIC IT Portal Administration Console also pro-

based solutions,

with enhanced maintenance and administration of

SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability

In certain cases, when customizing web pages,

adopting the classic means provided by SIMATIC IT

CAB is not sufficient to permit integrators to satisfy

particular customer needs. To obtain greater free-

page customization, integrators can

Configurability Framework:

embedded in SIMATIC IT CAB, this highly-flexible

tool provides a set of CAB configurable classes co

taining:

• a set of predefined configurable controls, which

speeds up the creation and configuration of co

figurable web pages.

• a plug-in architecture through which configur

ble controls can be easily extended.

The CAB Configurable GUIs are then provided as

packages on which integrators can expand, fu

filling customer requirements in two distinct situ

tions:

• The integrator needs to provide the customer

with a web page that is based on a library page,

and this library page has been developed using

the CAB Configurable GUIs: in this case, the int

grator can make use of the configuration fe

tures to customize the existing library page to

satisfy the customer’s needs. This speeds up the

customization process greatly, as the integrator

no longer needs to recreate the entire page from

scratch.

• The integrator needs to create a custom page

from scratch for a customer: in this case, the i

tegrator can use the controls of the CAB Config

rable GUI to create a “template”

then be customized in different ways for diffe

ent users (or even for different customers) wit

out having to modify the original page.

Thus, SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability Framework

takes into account the needs of both customers and

integrators in terms of:

• Flexibility

• Savings in overall costs (time, man

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tool provides a set of CAB configurable classes con-

a set of predefined configurable controls, which

speeds up the creation and configuration of con-

in architecture through which configura-

nded.

are then provided as

packages on which integrators can expand, ful-

in two distinct situa-

The integrator needs to provide the customer

with a web page that is based on a library page,

is library page has been developed using

the CAB Configurable GUIs: in this case, the inte-

grator can make use of the configuration fea-

tures to customize the existing library page to

satisfy the customer’s needs. This speeds up the

atly, as the integrator

no longer needs to recreate the entire page from

The integrator needs to create a custom page

from scratch for a customer: in this case, the in-

tegrator can use the controls of the CAB Configu-

page that can

then be customized in different ways for differ-

ent users (or even for different customers) with-

out having to modify the original page.

Thus, SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability Framework

takes into account the needs of both customers and

Savings in overall costs (time, man-hours).



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What’s New in SIMATIC IT Production Suite v 7.0

Technological upgrades

The following technological modernizations have been made in SIMATIC IT 7.0: • .NET Framework 4.5.2 has been globally adopted for all SIMATIC IT components • Infragistics 2014 has been adopted in SIMATIC IT Client Application • Microsoft Office 2013 is supported in addition to Microsoft Office 2010. In particular, for what concerns SIMATIC IT Data Integration Service (DIS): • IBM WebSphere MQSeries 8.0 is now supported in DIS MQSeries connectors and • DIS SAP Netweaver connector is now compatible with SAP Netweaver SDK v7.20.33.

Client Application Builder

SIMATIC IT CAB supports further technological in-novations by covering: • Single Sign-On functionality in side-by-side

installations, which permits the integration with its User Management Component (UMC)

• User synchronization with Active Directory through UMC, so that double authoring of sys-tem users can be avoided

For more information, see the SIMATIC IT 7.0 CAB Portal Template Developer Manual.

Data Integration Service

• Contrary to previous SIT versions, the public interface of the DIS SDK connector has been iso-lated from its hosting part supporting version independency in embedding of connectors in custom applications

• In SIMATIC IT DIS Database Archiver, synchroni-zation operations, as well as general perfor-mance levels, have been improved.

At-Line-Testing

The ALT User Interface as well as the programmatic

interface have been enhanced to improve Electronic

Work Instruction (EWI) management in integration

scenarios with Teamcenter.

Major features in SIMATIC IT Production Suite 7.0



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