SIMIT Simulation

Optimize your plant,

increase your competitiveness

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Sustainable creation of customer value and satisfaction

Purposes Efficiency Answer

Virtual commis- Increase Operational
customer needs
Productivity Efficiency
sioning (VCO) Ensure safe, efficient
Test the original and demand-suffici-
automation software ent production in
€€
by the use of a a fast changing
simulation model market environment
Time to Market Costs Quality
and to cope with an
Operator trai-
increased complexity
ning (OTS)
of production plants
Train the interaction
with the original Risks
automation software Increase Safe
by the use of a Flexibility Production

simulation model

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Mapping between Real and Virtual Siemens World

Real World Virtual World

HMI: PCS 7 OS HMI: PCS 7 OS
Server/WinCC Server/WinCC

Automation SIMATIC S7 Software-in- PLCSIM Adv. SIMIT VC – Virtual Controller Hardware-in- SIMATIC S7

System (AS) the loop the loop

Real AS
Emulation of AS PROFIBUS or PROFINET
via SIMIT Unit

Remote IO/ Simulation SIMIT

devices of Signals

Actuators/ Simulation
Sensors of Drives/Signals

SIMIT SIMIT-Connector to domain specific simulators

Plant/ Simulation
Machine of technological
behavior Process behavior w/o High fidelity chemical 3D or discrete
chemical reactions process simulators event driven simulators

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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
1 Product design
2 and plant design 3 and commissioning 4 Operation
5 Service

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SIMIT Simulation
Simulation based Engineering
from Virtual Commissioning to Operator Training

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Simulation based Engineering
from Virtual Commissioning to Operator Training

Software-in-the-loop
Virtual Controller
• Emulation of S7-300/400
or PCS 7 controllers
• Especially designed for virtual com-
missioning and operator training
• Controller runtime independent
from the engineering system
• Snapshot management
for emulated controllers
• Virtual time management
(fast/slow mode)

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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

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Simulation based Engineering
from Virtual Commissioning to Operator Training

Software-in-the-loop
Virtual Controller – Snapshot
• Snapshots to store current controller
and simulation state
• Snapshot can be loaded to start a si-
mulation from a certain starting point
• DBs, flags, counters, ... of all control-
lers and the state of the SIMIT
simulation are stored or loaded
at the same time
• Snapshot reuse after full download

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Simulation based Engineering
from Virtual Commissioning to Operator Training

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

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Simulation based Engineering
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Hardware-in-the-loop
SIMIT Unit
• Connect to real controller via:
PROFIBUS, PROFINET,
PRODAVE, OPC
• Simulation of I/O-Signals
by SIMIT UNIT

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from Virtual Commissioning to Operator Training

Hardware-in-the-loop SIMATIC S7 SIMATIC S7

SIMIT Unit – PROFIBUS DP
PCS 7/
• Connect up to 2 controllers to SIMIT WinCC
with one SIMIT UNIT PROFIBUS DP
• 2 channels
• Simulation of maximum
125 slaves per channel ...
• Process alarms, Diagnosis alarms
PROFIBUS DP
• S7-specific PROFIBUS functions
PROFIBUS DP
• Redundant peripheries
• Failsafe modules

SU-PBDP

Ethernet

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Hardware-in-the-loop SIMATIC S7
SIMIT Unit – PROFINET IO
PCS 7/
• One SIMIT UNIT PROFINET IO WinCC
per controller required
• Simulation of up to 256 devices
per controller
• Boxes for 128 or 256 devices
per controller available

SU-PNIO

Ethernet

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from Virtual Commissioning to Operator Training

Couplings SIMIT
Remote Control Interface
• Synchronization via Remote
Control Interface
• Data exchange (two options)
OPC or Shared Memory Interface
• Especially useful for process
operator training system

Domain specific simulator

Synchronization

Data Exchange

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Simulation based Engineering
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Couplings
Shared Memory Coupling
• Communication between SIMIT
and 3rd Party simulators using
high performance shared
memory coupling
• Freely configurable by the user
• Cyclic data access by SIMIT
Shared Memory
• Cycle time can be defined
by the user
• Shared memory is synchronized
using a MUTEX1
• Shared memory can be initialized
by SIMIT or a 3rd Party tool

1 Coordinated process to access the shared memory E.g. Process Simulate E.g. Plant Simulation

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Hardware-in-the-Loop Couplings Software-in-the-Loop Couplings Generic Data Couplings

SIMATIC PCS 7/ SIMATIC PCS 7/ Data exchange Synchronization
WinCC SIMATIC S7 and remote control
Couplings

SIMIT
PRODAVE PLCSIM
SIMIT Unit SIMIT Unit PLCSIM Virtual OPC UA Client OPC SHM1 RCI2
(MPI/IE) Adv.
Controller
PROFIBUS DP PROFINET IO

SIMIT

1 Shared Memory; 2 Remote Control Interface

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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
Necessary granularity BASIS library

Simulation of technological behavior + to test the original

automation project + with drives and sensors
ready-to-use

SIMIT build in techno-

+ logical simulation:
STANDARD, FLOW-
NET, CONTEC libraries

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SIMIT Simulation
Live DEMO

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Simulation based Engineering
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Simulation SIMATIC Manager

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 SIMIT
• 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 Import
names will be overwritten

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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

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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

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Simulation COMOS: Project level

COMOS-SIMIT interface
• Export of project data in COMOS
• Import of project data to SIMIT
• Automatic build up of SIMIT simulation
from COMOS SIMIT: Project level
project data

Import

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Simulation
STANDARD Library
Library containing simulation
models for
• Motors, valves
• Frequency converters
• Mathematical models
• …

...

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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

...

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Simulation
CONTEC Library
Library to build conveyor
simulation models

...

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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

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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

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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

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SIMIT Simulation
Outlook

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Siemens serves the process industries
with a comprehensive portfolio SIMIT as part of Digitalization

Process Industries and Drives

Oil and Gas
Management
Engineering

Petro-/Chemicals
Level

COMOS/PAA SIMIT XHQ Operations

Plant Engineering Simulation Intelligence MES Solutions
Pharmaceutical

Food and Beverage

Fiber Industries
and Control
Operation

S7-400
PLC, Mining and Cement
Level

SIMATIC PCS 7 RTU and SINAMICS

Process Control System Safety Drive Systems
Glass and Solar

Water/Wastewater

Marine and Shipbuilding

Process Analytical
Level
Field

Power Industrial Instrumen- Products Flender Gears Industrial

Supplies Identification tation and Solutions Motors and Couplings Communication Others

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The evolution of Simulation

The roadmap

SIMIT V7.1 SIMIT V8.0

First release at I IA AS
• Simplified • Portal view
product structure • CMT based
• CONTEC library modeling
• Shared Memory • Virtual time
interface • ESXi support
• … • Remote control
interface
• …

Apr 2013 May 2014

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SIMIT from Siemens. What we offer

SIMIT
Simulation for engineering and operation

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