SIMIT Simulation Optimize your plant, increase your competitiveness
Sustainable creation of customer value and satisfaction Purposes Virtual commissioning (VCO) Test the original automation software by the use of a simulation model Operator training (OTS) Train the interaction with the original automation software by the use of a simulation model Increase Productivity Increase Flexibility Time to Market Efficiency Costs Risks Quality Operational Efficiency Safe Production Answer customer needs Ensure safe, efficient and demand-sufficient production in a fast changing market environment and to cope with an increased complexity of production plants Page 2
Mapping between Real and Virtual Siemens World Real World HMI: PCS 7 OS Server/WinCC Virtual World HMI: PCS 7 OS Server/WinCC Automation System (AS) SIMATIC S7 Software-inthe loop Emulation of AS PLCSIM Adv. SIMIT VC Virtual Controller Hardware-inthe loop PROFIBUS or PROFINET via SIMIT Unit Real AS SIMATIC S7 Remote IO/ devices Simulation of Signals SIMIT Actuators/ Sensors Simulation of Drives/Signals Plant/ Machine Simulation of technological behavior SIMIT Process behavior w/o chemical reactions SIMIT-Connector to domain specific simulators High fidelity chemical process simulators 3D or discrete event driven simulators Page 3
Integrated Engineering and Integrated Operations for process plants Simulation improves engineering and operational efficiency Your benefits in Engineering and Commissioning Seamless transfer of engineering data Simulation and testing of the automation functions Training of operating personnel Efficient and smooth system start-up of the real plant Avoidance of errors and costly reworking Increased safety Real Plant SIMIT Process Engineering Product design and plant design and commissioning Operation 1 2 3 4 5 Service Page 4
SIMIT Simulation Simulation based Engineering
Software-in-the-loop Virtual Controller Emulation of S7-300/400 or PCS 7 controllers Especially designed for virtual commissioning and operator training Controller runtime independent from the engineering system Snapshot management for emulated controllers Virtual time management (fast/slow mode) Page 9
Software-in-the-loop Virtual Controller Scalability Distribution among several PCs Emulation of large configurations is possible (32 in each SIMIT Station and in general >50 AS ) No build in limitation of the number of virtual controllers Configuration via Drag-and-Drop Import of PCS 7 project information directly from SIMATIC Manager Page 11
Software-in-the-loop Virtual Controller Snapshot Snapshots to store current controller and simulation state Snapshot can be loaded to start a simulation from a certain starting point DBs, flags, counters,... of all controllers and the state of the SIMIT simulation are stored or loaded at the same time Snapshot reuse after full download Page 13
Software-in-the-loop PLCSIM Emulation of S7-300/400 controller programs Embedded in engineering system Maximum of 8 controller instances All emulated controllers and the simulation on one PC Page 14
Hardware-in-the-loop SIMIT Unit Connect to real controller via: PROFIBUS, PROFINET, PRODAVE, OPC Simulation of I/O-Signals by SIMIT UNIT Page 16
Hardware-in-the-loop SIMIT Unit PROFIBUS DP Connect up to 2 controllers to SIMIT with one SIMIT UNIT PROFIBUS DP SIMATIC S7 SIMATIC S7 PCS 7/ WinCC 2 channels Simulation of maximum 125 slaves per channel... Process alarms, Diagnosis alarms S7-specific PROFIBUS functions Redundant peripheries PROFIBUS DP PROFIBUS DP Failsafe modules SU-PBDP Ethernet Page 17
Hardware-in-the-loop SIMIT Unit PROFINET IO One SIMIT UNIT PROFINET IO per controller required Simulation of up to 256 devices per controller Boxes for 128 or 256 devices per controller available SIMATIC S7 PCS 7/ WinCC SU-PNIO Ethernet Page 18
Couplings Remote Control Interface Synchronization via Remote Control Interface Data exchange (two options) OPC or Shared Memory Interface Especially useful for process operator training system SIMIT Domain specific simulator Data Exchange Synchronization Page 20
Couplings Shared Memory Coupling Communication between SIMIT and 3 rd Party simulators using high performance shared memory coupling Freely configurable by the user Cyclic data access by SIMIT Cycle time can be defined by the user Shared memory is synchronized using a MUTEX 1 Shared memory can be initialized by SIMIT or a 3 rd Party tool Shared Memory 1 Coordinated process to access the shared memory E.g. Process Simulate E.g. Plant Simulation Page 21
Hardware-in-the-Loop Couplings Software-in-the-Loop Couplings Generic Data Couplings SIMATIC PCS 7/ WinCC SIMATIC PCS 7/ SIMATIC S7 Data exchange Synchronization and remote control Couplings SIMIT PRODAVE PLCSIM SIMIT Unit SIMIT Unit PLCSIM Virtual OPC UA Client OPC SHM 1 RCI (MPI/IE) Adv. 2 Controller PROFIBUS DP PROFINET IO SIMIT 1Shared Memory; 2 Remote Control Interface Page 22
Simulation Different Levels Simulation of I/O-Signals + All signals from and to the automation system + Import signal list from engineering system Simulation of Drives/Sensors Simulation of technological behavior + Necessary granularity to test the original automation project + BASIS library with drives and sensors ready-to-use + SIMIT build in technological simulation: STANDARD, FLOW- NET, CONTEC libraries Page 23
SIMIT Simulation Live DEMO
Simulation Simulation of I/O-Signals Automatically generate the signal interface list including the symbol names by importing the symbol table of PCS 7 Reuse of data from PCS 7 reduces the modeling time for the simulation Flexible symbol import for couplings Option New: All signals are deleted and created from new import Option Add: Missing signals and symbol names will be added Option Option Overwrite: Signals and symbol names will be overwritten SIMATIC Manager Import SIMIT Page 25
Simulation Simulation of Drives/Sensors SIMIT offers a signal flow oriented component based modeling approach Components can be placed via drag-and-drop on diagrams to model the simulation behavior Components can be connected by drag-and-drop Page 26
Simulation Simulation of Tech. behavior Simulation model can be created out of COMOS via the generic import Components can be placed via drag-and-drop on diagrams to model the simulation model Components can be connected by drag-and-drop Page 28
Simulation COMOS-SIMIT interface Export of project data in COMOS Import of project data to SIMIT Automatic build up of SIMIT simulation from COMOS project data COMOS: Project level SIMIT: Project level Import Page 31
Simulation STANDARD Library Library containing simulation models for Motors, valves Frequency converters Mathematical models... Page 32
Simulation FLOWNET Library Library to build models in the schematics of a P&ID Library to simulate a piping network with single component liquids/gas (e.g. water) including pressure, temperature and flow... Page 33
Simulation CONTEC Library Library to build conveyor simulation models... Page 34
Simulation CTE Using the component type editor new SIMIT SF components can be developed by the user User created components can be versioned and protected against misuse The component symbol can include controls and animations Page 36
Simulation Dynamic Graphics Modeling Graphical elements can be modeled using the standard SIMIT user interface Graphical elements can be animated and the motion can be coupled to simulation values Graphical elements can be mirrored vertically or horizontally Page 37
Demo Version Simulation Demo Version Extended DEMO MODE 45 minutes, all couplings with a maximum of 30 bytes The dynamic graphic editor, the trend and messaging, the macro component editor, the SMD-typical import and the automatic control interface will be available for testing during the demo session https://support.industry.siemens.com ID: 109738278 Page 58
SIMIT Simulation Outlook
Siemens serves the process industries with a comprehensive portfolio SIMIT as part of Digitalization Process Industries and Drives Oil and Gas Engineering Management Level COMOS/PAA Plant Engineering SIMIT Simulation XHQ Operations Intelligence MES Solutions Petro-/Chemicals Pharmaceutical Food and Beverage Fiber Industries Operation and Control Level SIMATIC PCS 7 Process Control System S7-400 PLC, RTU and Safety SINAMICS Drive Systems Mining and Cement Glass and Solar Water/Wastewater Field Level Power Supplies Industrial Identification Process Instrumentation Analytical Products and Solutions Motors Flender Gears and Couplings Industrial Communication Marine and Shipbuilding Others Page 62
The evolution of Simulation The roadmap SIMIT V7.1 SIMIT V8.0 First release at I IA AS Simplified product structure CONTEC library Shared Memory interface Portal view CMT based modeling Virtual time ESXi support Remote control interface Apr 2013 May 2014 Page 63
SIMIT from Siemens. What we offer SIMIT Simulation for engineering and operation Page 64