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Long-term investment protection for companies
Siemens
continues to develop its controller portfolio to handle
sophisticated tasks in the process industry. Users of the flexibly
configurable controllers, which offer a high level of security and avail-
ability, will therefore benefit from long-term investment protection.
The first step was to give the Simatic S7-410 the standard coating
for operation in toxic atmospheres and to further increase the fault
tolerance of the redundant system. Siemens has also extended the
ambient temperature range up to 70 °C, which allows users to deploy
the powerful Simatic PCS 7 controller in harsh environments, such
as in oil and gas applications. The next steps will be, for example,
to further expand the Profinet functional-
ity in order to increase fault tolerance and
availability.
The Simatic S7-410 controller is an integral
part of the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 process
control system and currently the most power-
ful controller in the process industry.This is
particularly obvious in the integrated scaling
feature: it is now possible to apply a uniform
hardware and software environment for very
small systems of 100 I/Os up to large-scale
plants of more than 100 000 inputs/outputs.
The Simatic S7-410 controller is available in
a standard version as well as in fault tolerant
and fail-safe versions. The device therefore
meets all the requirements of the process
industry, including the chemical, glass, metal,
food and beverage,
Enquiries: Keshin Govender.
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