Innovative software and powerful controllers opens new markets for manufacturers

The pioneering engineering framework optimizes all planning, machine and process procedures

These days, efficient engineering increasingly allows for faster, simpler and more economical ways to produce machinery as well as setting up entire plants with the required functional capacity.

One way Industry Software from Siemens is helping customers all over the world do this, is by delivering integrated automation software that combines Controller, HMI, IO, Motion Control, Drives and network configuration in a single engineering environment. This is the Totally Integrated Automation Portal (TIA Portal) from Siemens.

With the TIA Portal, Siemens provides an engineering framework for our customers that make it possible to implement automation solutions anywhere in the world regardless of your industry. From planning to commissioning, operation and maintenance all the way to the upgrade of existing automation systems, the TIA Portal saves engineering time, costs and efforts.

Through its intuitive user interface the TIA Portal provides engineers fast ramp-up times and enables them to focus on engineering task instead of spending time learning new software functionality. Faster understanding of essential programming and processing functions is of great importance when it comes to getting new products to market ahead of your competitors.

As an example of how TIA Portal and the hardware from Siemens is helping companies in real life; we invite you to take a look at how Burr Oak Tool Inc. (Sturgis, Michigan, USA) who reduced their engineering development time about 30% with the use of our SIMATIC S7-1500 Controller in combination with TIA Portal.

Burr Oak Tool Inc. is today taking advantage of a lot of Siemens products. Their factory floors are equipped with SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU1516, SIMATIC ET200 MP, SIMATIC ET200 SP, SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panel TP1200 . The automation devices in combination with TIA Portal provided Burr Oak Tool Inc. with some key benefits:

Commissioning is faster and simpler than ever before

Lower inventory levels

Maintenance personnel can debug machine directly without needing software engineering time

Increase Engineering Efficiency by up to 30%