Breakthrough Shrinks New Plant Engineering Time

By Jan Rougoor

Normally, the engineering planning for new production facilities would have to be followed by a time-consuming round of application software programming for the individual process functions. In a pilot project, the combination of Siemens’ design and engineering software Comos PT and the Simatic PCS 7 control system has made it possible to bypass a major part of this programming.

Instead, the DCS (distributed control system) application software was generated directly from the specification data held in Comos PT. Additionally, subsequent changes, directly made in PCS 7, can be automatically transferred back to Comos PT. This bidirectional data transfer enables a continuous synchronization of specification and implementation – a perfect solution for the GMP environment.