The Siemens Industry Automation Division has introduced its first automation software with One Engineering Environment and One Software Project for all automation tasks, called the Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) portal. The new framework enables users to develop and commission automation systems quickly and intuitively, which eliminates the traditional time consuming and costly integration of separate software packages. Designed for high efficiency and user-friendliness, the portal is suitable for both first-time and experienced users. Furthermore, it will be the basis of all future software engineering packages for configuring, programming and commissioning automation and drives products in the company’s Totally Integrated Automation portfolio. Examples of this include the new Simatic Step 7 V11 automation software for Simatic controllers and Simatic WinCC V11 for Simatic HMI and process visualisation applications.
For the design of the TIA portal framework, Siemens studied many typical software engineering applications over several years and analysed and evaluated its customer requirements worldwide. As an integral component of all software engineering packages from Siemens, the framework provides advanced shared services across all the configuration interfaces ensuring uniform navigation for the user and consistent system behaviour. For example, all devices and networks in an automation system can now be configured within one shared device and network editor. Project navigation, library concepts, data management, project storage, diagnostics and online functions are standard features and made available to the user in the shared portal framework.
This new single software framework will enable all Siemens programmable controllers, HMI operator panels and drives to be configured in the same development environment. This greatly reduces interfacing and configuration costs for the common tasks of communications setup between controllers, drives and HMI devices.
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