SIMATIC IT

Production Suite V 7.0

Functional Overview

www.siemens.com

December 2015
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Contents

Introduction...................................................................................... 4

MES and Production Modelling ...................................................... 4

Standards and Compliance ............................................................. 4

ISA-95 Compliance .......................................................................... 4

21 CFR Part 11 Compliance .............................................................. 5

Why focus on MES and Production Modeling? .................................... 6

Business issues .............................................................................. 6

Production issues ........................................................................... 6

IT issues ......................................................................................... 7

How you can succeed ........................................................................ 8

The SIMATIC IT model ..................................................................... 8

Business Benefits ........................................................................... 8

Production Benefits ........................................................................ 8

IT Benefits ..................................................................................... 8

Total Integration ............................................................................ 9

SIMATIC IT Production Suite............................................................. 10

Overview ..................................................................................... 10

SIMATIC IT Production Modeler .................................................... 10

Overview ....................................................................................... 10

Plant Model ................................................................................... 10

Execution Model ............................................................................ 11

SIMATIC IT Components................................................................ 11

SIMATIC IT At Line Testing (ALT)...................................................... 11

SIMATIC IT Defect Manager (DM) .................................................... 12

SIMATIC IT Production Suite Long Term Archiving (PRS LTA) ............. 12

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SIMATIC IT Product Definition Manager (PDefM) .............................. 12

SIMATIC IT Production Order Manager (POM) .................................. 12

SIMATIC IT Material Manager (MM) ................................................. 12

SIMATIC IT Personnel Manager (PrM) .............................................. 13

SIMATIC IT Shift Calendar (SHC) ...................................................... 13

SIMATIC IT Messaging Manager (MsM) ............................................ 14

SIMATIC IT Data Integration Service (DIS) ........................................ 14

SIMATIC IT Plant Performance Analyzer (PPA) .................................. 14

SIMATIC IT Client Application Builder (CAB) .................................. 14

SIMATIC IT Portal ........................................................................... 14

SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability Framework ..................................... 15

Major features in SIMATIC IT Production Suite 7.0 ............................ 16

What’s New in SIMATIC IT Production Suite v 7.0 ........................... 16

Technological upgrades................................................................ 16

Client Application Builder ............................................................. 16

Data Integration Service............................................................... 16

At-Line-Testing ............................................................................. 16

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Introduction

ISA-95 documents point this out very clearly, de-

MES and Production
Modelling
In the early Nineties, industries acknowledged the
need for a layer to integrate and link Business Sys-
tems with Control Systems. The term Manufactur-
ing Execution Systems (MES) has been used from
the start to specify all those functions and products
that satisfy this need.
Initially, MES indicated a “gray” area that was a
hodgepodge of almost every application or product
that could not be clearly assigned to either the
Business System or the Control System layer. Most
of these products were spinoffs of applications
developed by a System Integrator for a particular
Customer and were generally focused on a very
specific area (i.e. scheduling, laboratory, quality,
tracking…).
After some time, international organizations ad-
dressed the need for a clearer definition of MES:
MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Associa-
tion) and, as a consequence, ISA (Instrumentation
System and Automation Society) later developed
models that describe these levels and seek to
standardize them.
scribing the MES process in terms of both data and
interaction between functions (e.g. Order Dispatch-
ing, Resource Management).
The result is a new approach to MES, based on an
architecture that allows describing Business Pro-
cesses that orchestrate functionalities provided by a
set of specialized and affordable Components.
At the same time, this orchestration must also in-
volve the Automation and Control level, thereby
making both MES and Control part of the same
Collaborative Production Management system.
Standards and Compliance
ISA-95 Compliance
ISA-95 is acknowledged as the most authoritative
standard for MES applications. Not only Market Ana-
lysts such as AMR (www.amrresearch.com) and ARC
(www.arcweb.com) confirm this, but also several
major vendors adopt this standard. In addition to
Siemens, we can find, for example, SAP and Microsoft.

Siemens works in close conjunction with ISA and was

the very first MES vendor to offer a comprehensive
product implementing the ISA-95 standard. This trans-
lates into standardized terminology, concepts and
models for integrating manufacturing operations
functions with enterprise functions. Such standardiza-
tion is achieved with ISA-95, which defines the func-
tional view of an enterprise, allowing a simple generic
Under the pressure of new business-driving forces
model of work activities to be applied to the main
that have been emerging in recent decades, Manu-
areas of manufacturing. As a member of the ISA-95
facturing Plants continue to play a major role. The Committee, Siemens actively contributes to the fur-
globalization of both companies and production ther development of this standard.
processes makes it necessary to create new models.
Manufacturing is not a process that can be com-
pleted by a single self-enclosed entity, but extends
beyond the bounds of the Plant, the Country and
the Enterprise.
Therefore, MES cannot act simply as an interface
between Business and Process layers, but requires a
substantial number of functions that are crucial to a
Company’s success. Rather than remaining distinct
from one another, connected solely by a data ex-
change layer, these functions need to be coordi-
nated, in adherence to the Business and Production
strategy.
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Complying with ISA-95 makes it possible to reap

some important benefits: in particular, for what
concerns defining the hierarchical model of the
MES solution, which simplifies developing solutions
that are both standard yet flexible, while still satis-
fying customer requirements in full.

21 CFR Part 11 Compliance

In order to address regulated industries (such as

Pharma), SIMATIC IT provides a built-in service (the
installation of which is optional) depending on the
requirements. This service (SIMATIC IT Compliance
Service) provides support for the 21 CFR Part 11
requirements for Audit Trail and Electronic Signa-
ture. Several installations in regulated industries
successfully proved SIMATIC IT support in certifying
a solution.

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Why focus on MES and Production Modeling?
On a daily basis, a variety of figures in charge of
different activities face problems that involve man-
ufacturing systems. Implementing MES and deploy-
ing the right production model can provide a solu-
tion to many of these issues. In broad outline, the
problems encountered concern:
• Business
• Production
• IT
Business issues
Do you want to increase the overall efficiency of
your supply chain?
Supply-chain efficiency is strongly affected by how
the Business level (ERP) and the Shop Floor (Con-
trol) interact. MES represents the go-between,
which, when streamlined and efficient, contributes
to a better Supply Chain.
Is your system able to react quickly to new con-
ditions and new market requirements?
In today’s world of manufacturing, the ability to
adapt to new operational requirements (i.e. chang-
es in product specifications, quality procedures…)
and environmental conditions (i.e. introduction of
new standards…) is paramount to success. If your
system is ready to meet these challenges, the re-
ward may be a significant increase in your competi-
tiveness, as well as impressive savings in terms of
costs.
Is your production process standardized across
all plants?
Guaranteeing uniform, consistent production pro-
cedures is a key issue in today's business. If this is
lacking, then the result may be uneven quality of
your product from one facility to another. Control
System and Business System cannot solve the prob-
lem, as a structured and modeled environment is
required in order to seamlessly coordinate the pro-
duction process, also in different contexts (e.g.
different hardware and software installation bases).
Are you ready for new regulations?
Some established standards and regulations, such
as FDA, already exist to guarantee high-quality
products. However, new regulations, as well as the
need for exhaustive material traceability, are affect-
ing manufacturing procedures substantially. MES
can help you achieve compliancy with these regula-
tions and maintain full accountability of materials.
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Would you like your business to be more cus-
tomer-oriented?
Standard monolithic applications often represent a
barrier to implementing an efficient system that
can adapt and satisfy ever-changing requirements
from both the customer and the market. In view of
the growing demands posed by Customers, MES
can make your system much more flexible and
adaptable.
Production issues
Do you handle reworks and scraps properly? Do
you track how your materials are used with pre-
cision?
Typically, reworks and scraps cannot be handled by
control systems. Without appropriate management,
excessive waste or uncontrolled material tracking
can also affect the quality of your final product. In
addition, overall material tracking throughout the
production process is now a crucial factor for both
accounting and the correct evaluation of produc-
tion costs. S
Do you need to increase visibility of your produc-
tion process? Is your system able to provide Pro-
duction-related KPIs and advanced reporting?
To fully comprehend how your plant is performing,
you need a system that can generate production
reporting correlating process-control specific data
with production-related data (i.e. order number,
lots, personnel, materials…) to facilitate trouble-
shooting and analyzing performance problems. MES
can heighten visibility in the production process,
creating the right conditions to promote improve-
ment and increase your manufacturing system’s
efficiency.
Do you need to raise your level of quality? Are
you able to pinpoint contaminated lots or out-of-
spec finished-goods lots? Are you able to back-
track your production with accuracy?
If not, you might be unable to address specific is-
sues regarding the quality of your product. You may
also be unable to respond to customer complaints
appropriately or organize product recalls promptly.
An efficient MES system can provide complete ge-
nealogy, being able to track materials throughout
the entire production process. It also follows all
material transformations with precision until the
final product is produced and delivered to the final
customer.
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Does your system react efficiently to production
problems? Do you re-schedule your plant activi-
ties properly?
What if something goes wrong on the shop floor?
Efficient management of failures and downtimes is
a must. Often, several systems need to be involved
in order to solve the problem (maintenance must be
informed, rescheduling is necessary, certain people
must be notified as soon as possible…). Poor coor-
dination leads to using resources in an ineffective
manner, ultimately raising your production costs.
Is your ERP System working with the Manufactur-
ing Operations System efficiently?
To optimize Supply Chain efficiency, the Business
Logistic System must be informed in real-time as to
what is happening on the Shop Floor, especially in
terms of Production Performance. This is especially
useful in terms of planning, as well as both material
and warehouse management.
Is your manufacturing system totally integrated?
Total integration between Process Control, MES and
ERP is essential in today's business. The manufac-
turing system consists in the joint efforts of a varie-
ty of functions. Good integration can make a differ-
ence for attaining top-level efficiency: on the con-
trary, poor integration can hinder your efforts to
improve plant performance.
IT issues
Is your System properly integrated and synchro-
nized? Are there so many links between applica-
tions that communication is difficult? Are your IT
maintenance costs too high?
A myriad of links between your Software Packages
greatly increases the complexity of the manufactur-
ing system. In turn, costs for IT maintenance and
program modification become staggering. This is
mainly due to the lack of coordination and flexibil-
ity of the majority of manufacturing applications.
The modeling approach can effectively simplify
integration and actively coordinate the interaction
and the flow of information between different ap-
plications on site.
Is implementation too expensive? Do you fre-
quently assess projects as falling in the "high-
risk" category?
Being able to employ reusable solutions creates the
conditions for streamlining and speeding up project
implementations. Total ownership costs can be cut
dramatically, thanks to efficient software reusabil-
ity.
Does sharing your know-how represent an ob-
stacle? Would you like to re-use your expertise
and your software effortlessly?
Efficient reusability of software is key to effective
cost saving. Being able to "code" the expertise per-
mits the rapid transfer of know-how between users,
which is usually not feasible with standard applica-
tions. Without a modeling environment to help you
define business procedures, focusing on the pro-
duction process rather than specific IT issues, the
understanding of complex manufacturing applica-
tions is rather difficult, making it virtually impossi-
ble to modify or reutilize code.
Do you need a more streamlined environment
for monitoring and troubleshooting?
Typically, a production system is a complex integra-
tion of software applications and physical devices.
Pinpointing problems and debugging are serious
issues that require a great deal of effort and ulti-
mately cost money. If you are able to model and run
programs and business procedures from a single
environment involving several systems, then ex-
tended monitoring and troubleshooting become
more than just a possibility.
Is it difficult for you to maintain your team’s
technological skills at top level? Are the costs to
train your staff in line with state-of-the-art tech-
nology excessive?
Applications are very often numerous and custom-
ized to satisfy specific needs. As a result, frequently,
the person with the most know-how is used to
develop and maintain these applications. Such
competence is very difficult to maintain, as well as
very expensive. By adopting SIMATIC IT, which co-
vers all functionalities in an integrated and homog-
enous environment, complex manufacturing sys-
tems can be implemented with ease, making the
tasks involved viable even for those users who pos-
sess basic technological skills.

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How you can succeed
The SIMATIC IT model
Today, increasing competitiveness is mandatory for
manufacturing companies.
MES is crucial to guaranteeing overall component
integration, ensuring maximum quality and produc-
tion efficiency across all global facilities. Siemens
was one of the first to understand the challenges
facing manufacturing industries, offering SIMATIC
IT as a solution.
SIMATIC IT is a collection of highly-integrated
components, designed to integrate the systems
within each factory, standardize production across
the entire enterprise and keep manufacturing pro-
cesses aligned with supply-chain activity.
SIMATIC IT provides a high-level environment that
enables the definition of the manufacturing pro-
cesses and operating procedures, synchronizing
and coordinating the functions provided by its sin-
gle components. These functions will carry out
what is required to manage production, such as
order management, material management, KPI
calculation and so on.
SIMATIC IT Production Suite has been developed to
provide cross-industry functions. Through layered
libraries, objects defined in SIMATIC IT Production
Suite can be more and more specialized in order to
address specific industry segments.
A dedicated team at Siemens provides pre-built
objects and examples ready for use in actual pro-
jects. They can be used either “as is”, or slightly
modified to fit the context where they will be em-
ployed. These pre-built objects are part of SIMATIC
IT Cross Industry Libraries.
Business Benefits
SIMATIC IT Production Suite fills the gap between
Business Logistic Systems (typically, ERPs) and Con-
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trol Systems, providing the conditions for increasing
overall supply-chain efficiency. The unique ap-
proach of SIMATIC IT allows manufacturing systems
to have a native flexibility that gives users the pos-
sibility to easily adapt and modify the business
process to new requirements and business drivers.
• SIMATIC IT Production Suite allows manufactur-
ers to model their own business to be much
more customer-oriented and ready to satisfy any
on-the-fly requirements from the market.
• SIMATIC IT Production Suite has also been de-
signed to facilitate application roll-out to several
plants, thus being extremely cost-effective in
multi-site contexts.
• SIMATIC IT Production Suite effectively helps
users to comply with existing regulations.
Production Benefits
SIMATIC IT Production Suite offers a set of modules
able to cover the MES core requirements in any
manufacturing context. By modeling and defining
production procedures, SIMATIC IT Production Suite
effectively increases visibility on the entire produc-
tion process.
• Tracking and tracing of materials can be config-
ured in order to match the actual process with
precision.
• Having a clear view of material usage makes it
possible to reduce stock, analyze production
costs in greater detail and manage scraps and
reworks in an efficient manner.
• SIMATIC IT Production Suite can rebuild the com-
plete material genealogy (both backward and
forward).
• SIMATIC IT coordinates and integrates a variety
of systems, each with its own scope, thereby
providing true added value to the production sys-
tem as a whole.
IT Benefits
The basic approach of SIMATIC IT makes it possible
to model business rules in a graphical way so as to
represent the interactions and the expected flow of
information among different software components
(including those that are not part of SIMATIC IT
Production Suite). SIMATIC IT Libraries, classes and
inheritance mechanisms create the conditions for
an effortless rollout and reutilization of SIMATIC IT
Production Suite applications.
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• SIMATIC IT Production Suite permits users to

focus on process issues, rather than IT issues.
• In SIMATIC IT Production Suite, technological
aspects are transparent to the user, who, as a re-
sult, requires fewer skills than what is normally
required to develop standard MES implementa-
tions.
• Costs for maintenance and application modifica-
tion are pared to the bone.
• Siemens partners can create their own SIMATIC
IT Libraries, coding their own expertise and mak-
ing it easily reusable, thus dramatically reducing
the average development time for MES projects.

Total Integration
Siemens is committed to providing complete solu-
tions to their customers, from field devices to MES.
This is part of the TIA concept (Total Integrated
Automation). What Siemens offers can satisfy a full
range of requirements for automation in the manu-
facturing market. Its native integration provides
considerable advantages.
Such an ample range of totally integrated products
leads to faster implementation and effective engi-
neering, creating the conditions to attain greater
productivity in the company’s workflow.
In the Siemens TIA strategy, SIMATIC IT is the MES
player. While maintaining its capability of integrat-
ing third-party software and components, SIMATIC
IT has an active role in the TIA concept.
In this way, SIMATIC IT benefits from the integration
with the rest of Siemens’s products, supplying a
vast range of pre-configured objects ready to be
instantiated and used without requiring any addi-
tional engineering effort. As a result, both rapid
project implementation and native integration
throughout the manufacturing system are ensured.

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SIMATIC IT Production Suite

Overview SIMATIC IT Production

Siemens is one of the first manufacturers to focus
Modeler
on MES. SIMATIC IT is a collection of highly-
integrated components, designed to coordinate the
systems within each factory, standardize production Overview
across the entire enterprise and keep manufactur-
ing processes aligned with supply-chain activity. The core component is SIMATIC IT Production Mod-
eler. An object-oriented graphical tool, it enables
SIMATIC IT provides a high-level environment that the user to follow the entire lifecycle of a MES pro-
permits modeling all manufacturing business pro- ject, from its design to its commissioning phase,
cesses, by synchronizing and coordinating the func- whereas Components provide all basic functionali-
tions provided by the single components. These ties to run manufacturing processes and, ultimately,
functions will properly execute the actions required fulfill their specific requirements.
for managing the production, such as order man-
agement, material management, KPI calculation SIMATIC IT Production Modeler offers a modeling
and so forth environment in which the various functions provid-
ed by SIMATIC IT Components are graphically com-
The core of this system is called SIMATIC IT Produc- bined to define the execution logics representing
tion Suite. It is a collection of components for de- the operating procedures. These logics are called
signing, implementing and maintaining Manufac- Production Operations and are presented as rules
turing Execution Systems. (workflows), in which each step represents the
SIMATIC IT Production Suite is made up of SIMATIC execution of a function provided by a component.
IT Production Modeler and SIMATIC IT Compo- To achieve this, SIMATIC IT Production Modeler also
nents: offers the modeling environment to build the Plant
• SIMATIC IT Production Modeler is a modeling Model, essential for defining the plant’s various
environment in which the functions, belonging behaviors.
to different SIMATIC IT Components, are com-
bined graphically in order to explicitly define
the execution logic (explicit-rules approach).
In SIMATIC IT Production Modeler, the plant
model is created in terms of physical objects
(tangible devices and equipment) and logical
objects (software packages and applications).
• SIMATIC IT Components provide basic and
guaranteed functionality. Each component ad-
dresses specific manufacturing issues (e.g. Or-
der Management, Material Management, Per-
sonnel Management, …)

SIMATIC IT Production Suite also permits integrating

Third-Party components and legacy applications.
Typically, existing applications residing on site are
integrated inside Production Suite so that they are
coordinated and invoked according to the logic
defined in SIMATIC IT Production Modeler. In this
manner, these external applications can be orches- Plant Model
trated by SIMATIC IT as if they were SIMATIC IT
Components. SIMATIC IT PM can coordinate the The plant model describes all those elements that
entire process and all involved applications. The concur to achieving manufacturing targets. In de-
end result is dynamic cross-system integration, tail, these elements can be either physical or logi-
thereby increasing overall efficiency. cal.
Physical Elements are those actually used in the
manufacturing cycle, and represent the Shop Floor;
they may be simple elements (such as a reactor, a
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mixer, a packaging line), or present greater com-
plexity (such as an assembly line, a continuous
casting machine, etc.).
Logical Elements are all those software components
that contribute to fulfilling the manufacturing cy-
cle, with the goal of managing the necessary in-
formation to track and manage the entire produc-
tion. Here are some examples of Logical Elements:
a LIMS, a material manager, a mathematical model,
a graphic interface, an order manager, etc.
Execution Model
Once the plant model is properly defined, it is nec-
essary to describe the plant behavior, in the sense
that the functionality of the model’s elements
(Physical and Logical) must be synchronized and
coordinated in order to support the operating pro-
cedures representing the plant’s daily operations.
SIMATIC IT offers standard functionalities through
SIMATIC IT Components. Material Management
(genealogy, tracking & tracing, etc.) and Order
Management (order sequencing, dispatching, etc.).
Together, these functionalities make it possible to
define Business Rules. Rules explicitly represent the
workflows that drive the components’ functions; as
a result, they are the actual application. A rule is
graphically modeled. It sequences the actions by
invoking the appropriate functions that are execut-
ed by the components and each function is invoked
in each step of the Business Rule.
SIMATIC IT Components
Components are designed to provide the function-
ality to update the status of the plant’s elements,
maintain historical records, transform materials,
modify orders and so forth. Therefore, each com-
ponent is specialized in performing particular ac-
tions. For example, SIMATIC IT Material Manager
(the component for handling materials) provides
functionality related to material management, such
as Material Master Data definition (and/or import
from an ERP System), including the Bills of Material.
This component will also handle material transfor-
mations throughout the manufacturing operations,
as in a food plant, where ingredients are mixed to
obtain final products. It thus enables the possibility
of building the entire genealogy of products.
A similar approach is adopted for other functionali-
ties, such as Order Management, Personnel Man-
agement and Product Definition Management.
Modeling a Business Rule means sequencing the
functionalities exposed by different components so
that a certain manufacturing target is achieved.
SIMATIC IT Components are engineered and fully
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harmonized inside the overall architecture and
provide detailed functions for handling Manufactur-
ing processes.
The orchestration of the functions exposed by the
Components, guaranteed by SIMATIC IT Production
Modeler, represents the solution provided by
SIMATIC IT for MES applications.
SIMATIC IT At Line Testing (ALT)
According to the international ISA-95 standard,
production processes and output must be subjected
to quality tests. In addition to ensuring that the
correct resources (equipment, materials and per-
sonnel) are used, quality tests check that products
conform to quality standards and can be released
(within specified conditions).
Of the various types of quality tests that can be
conducted, At-Line tests are crucial to streamlining
the testing process and provide line operators with
test results almost instantaneously.
In At-Line tests, items or samples are taken out of
the production stream and an operator at the pro-
duction line performs the inspection and fills in
forms with results of the analysis. As At-line tests
require only seconds or minutes to be conducted,
the production process is not interrupted.
SIMATIC IT At-Line Testing is designed to cover the-
se functionalities, which are a top priority for most
customers.
Thanks to this component, by configuring Work
Instructions (i.e. a number of tests/actions an oper-
ator must perform on a sample within a certain
time frame) represented by Forms that are then
displayed at runtime, production operators are
aided in executing quality tests effortlessly at the
right time.
The quality tests are designed to inspect/analyze
certain properties (Parameters) of the material
being produced at specific time intervals. Another
example of a Work Instruction is a check list (e.g.
Electronic Work Instructions) to be used for quality
checks.
Electronic Work Instructions can be displayed to line
operators so that they can check how much of
which ingredients is required to produce a certain
quantity of product and whether or not these in-
gredients are currently available. Operators will also
be asked to ensure that these ingredients are in
optimal condition (for example, at room tempera-
ture), prior to starting production.
At-line testing means not only performing checks
on a finished product, but also controlling quality
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aspects that play a role in the finished product's
production as well.
At the end of this process, the company can decide
to adopt corrective actions if the analysis results do
not satisfy the specification limits defined during
configuration.
SIMATIC IT Defect Manager (DM)
SIMATIC IT Defect Manager (DM) is in charge of
archiving and handling defect-related information.
Both GSI and BREAD dedicated interfaces are pro-
vided.
SIMATIC IT Production Suite Long Term
Archiving (PRS LTA)
SIMATIC IT Production Suite Long Term Archive (PRS
LTA) makes it possible to copy SITMesDB data to an
archiving database having the same structure and
that can be accessed whenever needed through
SQL queries. In detail, SIMATIC IT PRS LTA can be
used to:
• Transfer data to LTA database.
• Purge data from SITMesDB database.
• Import/export SITMesDB data through files.
• Import/export the MBR (Product Production
Rule)-relevant data through files.
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SIMATIC IT Product Definition Manager
(PDefM)
It maps requirements for Product Definition Man-
agement. PDefM supports all definitions related to
products. It defines the Process Segments (se-
quences of operations with resources and parame-
ters) necessary to produce a product. With PDefM,
product specifications are defined in a centralized
manner and all the components (in particular, Pro-
duction Modeler) use them to execute the manu-
facturing actions.
SIMATIC IT Production Order Manager
(POM)
It maps requirements for Production Dispatching.
POM performs all functionalities related to order
execution and, in particular, the customization of
Master Order Data (imported from the ERP) for
tracking execution-oriented info related to orders.
It also handles production-order dispatching, order-
status updating and tracking, historical database
updating.
SIMATIC IT Material Manager (MM)
MM can interface the ERP System for material mas-
ter data imports and performs material-oriented
functions, with particular reference to Material
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Master Data customization for fulfilling require- portant engineering activities performed in SIMATIC
ments regarding execution, as well as tracking and IT SHC concern defining and generating Shift Cal-
tracing. As international regulations for tracking endars.
finished products constantly evolve and become
SIMATIC IT SHC allows you to:
ever-more stringent, MM focuses on the aspects of
• Define a master working schedule, including
material genealogy, providing native functionality
working times and breaks;
for navigating a final product’s history both back-
ward and forward. In addition, it handles material • Define the plant's holidays;
location management, material transformations,
• Generate the actual Shift Calendar of the plant.
material availability, historical-database updating.

SIMATIC IT Personnel Manager (PrM)

People are an essential resource in the manufactur-

ing system. PrM permits assigning individuals to
shifts, as well as logging each person's detailed
activities during the work shift. It also permits inte-
grating personnel data and production data: for
example, checking the personnel required for a
task, or logging on which equipment, material lot,
batch or order on which each person worked.

SIMATIC IT Shift Calendar (SHC)

SIMATIC IT Shift Calendar (SHC) centralizes and

manages calendar information to be shared with
other SIMATIC IT components (in particular, SIMATIC
IT Personnel Management and SIMATIC IT Produc-
tion Modeler), thus aiding users in both managing
resources (i.e. personnel and equipment) and
scheduling activities for a plant. The most im-
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SIMATIC IT Messaging Manager (MsM)

The manual activities performed by operators must

be synchronized with the automatic tasks executed
by MES. MsM facilitates the implementation of the
manual activities and the synchronization with the
tasks performed by the rest of the system.

ata Integration Service

SIMATIC IT Data
(DIS)

This component enables communication between

SIMATIC IT and Third-Party
Party systems, such as ERP
Systems, thus providing integration without the
need to develop custom applications. DIS ensures
reliable message transport among appapplications of
different types and behaves as a generic data
transport layer. XML is the preferred standard for
message exchange. Connectors are provided for
various external systems, such as SAP, Windows File
System, .NET, COM, ADO.
SIMATIC IT Client Application
Builder (CAB)
SIMATIC IT CAB is a development platform to create
custom GUIs focused on displaying
splaying MES data in a
Web application, providing solutions that can be
integrated with SIMATIC IT components. Using CAB,
you can develop clients specifically designed to
access data in the SIMATIC IT database interacting
with SIMATIC IT components and services.
vices.

SIMATIC IT Portal

SIMATIC IT Portal is an “out-of-the-box”

rmance Analyzer
SIMATIC IT Plant Performance
(PPA)
SIMATIC IT Plant Performance Analyzer maps re-
quirements for Production Dataata Collection
Collection, as well
as for Production Performance Analysis. PPA collects
process and production data from a multitude of
sources, either through polling or on event. It can
perform calculations on multiple data and contex-
tualizes the results against production events, like
Production Operations, Process Segments or Batch-
Batc
es, establishing
ing and maintaining persistent rela-
rel
tionships between data and the relative production
contexts. Contextualization may differ
differ, depending
on the user’s role, satisfying
ing needs at the Area,
Plant or Site level.
box” Web front
front-
end for the entire MES project, including user pre
pref-
erences, and user and permission management.
This ASP .NET web application requires zero deve
devel-
opment effort, and represents the official CAB Po Por-
tal application that serves as the Product portal web
site for SIMATIC IT services and components.
Gradual extension and customization to the outout-of-
box solution, as well as seamless integration with
SIMATIC IT and 3rd-party
party solutions, is possible. The
only step necessary to start developing your CAB
Portal Web application is to install the SIMATIC IT
CAB Portal Starter Kit.
The CAB Portal Starter Kit is a fully-functional
functional sam-
sa
ple web application used to build complex web
scenarios interacting
ing with SIMATIC IT Services and
Components.
The Starter Kit provides two extendable and cucus-
tomizable ASP.NET page templates in addition to all
the administrative pages required for managing the
web application. Once installed, CAB Portal Web
applications can be developed in MS Visual Studio
environment.
The development process, management and cu cus-
tomization of rich MES applications are made seam-
sea
less with the most up-to-date
date CAB technology: CAB
Packaging.
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CAB Packages are compressed, encrypted and d de- tool provides a set of CAB configurable classes con-
co
ployed CAB Portal applications developed with the taining:
CAB Portal Starter Kit, enclosing web contents such • a set of predefined configurable controls, which
as web pages, user controls, images, scripts and the speeds up the creation and configuration of co
con-
dynamic contents into a single unique file. They can figurable web pages.
be fully integrated with CAB Portal applications and
• a plug-in
in architecture through which configura-
configur
are
re automatically configured to retrieve data from
ble controls can be easily extended.
nded.
the active SIMATIC IT database. This “minimum
effort” approach eliminates the need to break down The CAB Configurable GUIs are then provided as
the main code of the application to extend its fun
func- packages on which integrators can expand, ful- fu
tionalities. Packages can be installed, updated, filling customer requirements in two distinct situa-
situ
removed and nd are subject to version management. A tions:
user-friendly step-by-step
step guide to creating or up-
u • The integrator needs to provide the customer
dating by means of CAB Packaging Wizard, which is with a web page that is based on a library page,
also a part of the CAB Portal Starter Kit. and thisis library page has been developed using
the CAB Configurable GUIs: in this case, the int
inte-
Several pre-built
built packages that can be installed into
grator can make use of the configuration fe fea-
the SIMATIC IT Portal,
al, called Web Displays are su
sup-
tures to customize the existing library page to
plied. SIMATIC IT Web Displays facilitate advanced
satisfy the customer’s needs. This speeds up the
data visualization and management for SIMATIC IT
customization process greatly,
atly, as the integrator
components such as POM, MM, SHC, and UOM
no longer needs to recreate the entire page from
directly from the SIMATIC IT Portal pages.
scratch.
Installation and management of Web Displays and
• The integrator needs to create a custom page
other CAB Packages is done via the SIMATIC IT Por-
Po
from scratch for a customer: in this case, the in-
i
tal Administration Console. The Administration
tegrator can use the controls of the CAB Config
Configu-
Console is a ready-to-use
use Web application that si
sim-
rable GUI to create a “template” page that can
plifies and speeds up CAB Portal configuration.
then be customized in different ways for differ-
diffe
SIMATIC IT Portal Administration Console also pro-
pr
ent users (or even for different customers) wit
with-
vides full support for CAB Portal-based
based solutions,
out having to modify the original page.
with enhanced maintenance and administration of
multiple CAB applications. Thus, SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability Framework
takes into account the needs of both customers and
integrators in terms of:
• Flexibility

• Savings in overall costs (time, man-hours).

man

SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability

Framework

In certain cases, when customizing web pages,

adopting the classic means provided by SIMATIC IT
CAB is not sufficient to permit integrators to satisfy
particular customer needs. To obtain greater fre free-
dom in web-page
page customization, integrators can
use SIMATIC IT CAB Configurability Framework:
embedded in SIMATIC IT CAB, this highly-flexible
highly
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Major features in SIMATIC IT Production Suite 7.0

What’s New in SIMATIC IT

Production Suite v 7.0

Technological upgrades
The following technological modernizations have
been made in SIMATIC IT 7.0:
• .NET Framework 4.5.2 has been globally adopted
for all SIMATIC IT components
• Infragistics 2014 has been adopted in SIMATIC IT
Client Application
• Microsoft Office 2013 is supported in addition to
Microsoft Office 2010.

In particular, for what concerns SIMATIC IT Data

Integration Service (DIS):
• IBM WebSphere MQSeries 8.0 is now supported in
DIS MQSeries connectors and
• DIS SAP Netweaver connector is now compatible
with SAP Netweaver SDK v7.20.33.

Client Application Builder

SIMATIC IT CAB supports further technological in-
novations by covering:
• Single Sign-On functionality in side-by-side
installations, which permits the integration with
its User Management Component (UMC)
• User synchronization with Active Directory
through UMC, so that double authoring of sys-
tem users can be avoided

For more information, see the SIMATIC IT 7.0 CAB

Portal Template Developer Manual.

Data Integration Service

• Contrary to previous SIT versions, the public
interface of the DIS SDK connector has been iso-
lated from its hosting part supporting version
independency in embedding of connectors in
custom applications
• In SIMATIC IT DIS Database Archiver, synchroni-
zation operations, as well as general perfor-
mance levels, have been improved.

At-Line-Testing
The ALT User Interface as well as the programmatic
interface have been enhanced to improve Electronic
Work Instruction (EWI) management in integration
scenarios with Teamcenter.

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