The Oslo City Administration has selected Siemens to provide the building management system and building automation for the new Munch Museum. Siemens will install the Desigo CC building management platform in the arts museum of the Norwegian capital, together with all associated automation equipment, panels and the necessary interfaces, engineering, programming, commissioning and training of museum employees.
- Modern test lab for high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission technology
- Siemens invests EUR 35 million in the new building
- Shorter test times, higher test currents, and innovative test technologies
Siemens is building a modern system test center in Nuremberg for the latest generation of power converters, which are used in international high-voltage transmission projects. A test hall with five test bays, control rooms, and office areas is being built in approximately 9,400 square meters of space on the grounds of the Nuremberg transformer factory, on behalf of the Transmission Solutions Business Unit in the Energy Management Division. The construction will be completed by the spring of 2018. The total investment in buildings and technology amounts to approximately 35 million.
Siemens AG and Software AG announced a partnership to strengthen the presence of the cloud-based open Internet of Things (IoT) operating system MindSphere across industries. MindSphere supports industrial companies in their digital transformation and offers a development platform to a broad customer base where companies can integrate their own applications and services to promote IoT innovations. Software AG brings the highly scalable components of its Digital Business Platform to MindSphere, which help customers to flexibly manage networks of millions of end devices.
Taking part in a joint innovation project, Siemens and the Russian manufacturer of instrument transformers, Profotech, have demonstrated the interoperability of unconventional (fiber-optic) current and voltage instrument transformers connected to digital protection devices via process bus. Siemens and Profotech are thus taking process bus communications technology in energy automation a step closer to commercial deployment. One of the greatest challenges here is to ensure interoperability so that the connected devices can also communicate together without error regardless of the manufacturer. In the case of Profotech's optical current and voltage instrument transformers, for example, the current and voltage values can now be transmitted digitally in the form of digital sampled values from the primary system via the process bus to the secondary system over the Ethernet. There they are further processed in smart terminals such as protection devices or energy meters.
Siemens, a global engineering and technology leader, and PAS Global, the leading provider of industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity solutions, announced an agreement to provide fleet-wide, real time monitoring for control systems. By leveraging the unique capabilities of both companies, this partnership will provide customers with: (1) deep analytics required to identify and inventory proprietary assets; and (2) visibility to detect and respond effectively to attacks across the operating environment.
- Cloud-based digitalization offering for energy suppliers facilitates development and installation of agile, fully integrated applications for the Internet of Things
- Numerous EnergyIP applications gradually available for MindSphere
- Service and applications part of Siemens' cyber security strategy
The further development of Siemens' EnergyIP smart grid applications marks another step forward in the digital transformation of the energy industry: In the future, more and more applications that today run on the EnergyIP smart grid application platform from Siemens will be integrated into MindSphere, the Siemens cloud-based open operating system for the Internet of Things (IoT). With this step, Siemens can provide energy suppliers with open and scalable digitalization applications for improved transparency in energy plants, data analytics, and optimized energy-related business processes. MindSphere for Energy reduces the cost for integrating new equipment and enables new and existing applications to be developed and installed using standardized interfaces on MindSphere. The platform and the applications are a part of the company's cyber security strategy. These solutions are already being implemented in development and production in order to meet current and future data security requirements.
Siemens has added two new measuring devices and an expansion module to its Sentron portfolio. The TÜV-tested devices for the 7KM PAC3200T and 7KM PAC2200 standard mounting rails measure all relevant variables of an AC system. The devices can be easily integrated into higher-level automation and energy management systems via integrated communication interfaces to further process the measured data. Together with the powermanager software, the devices offer a power monitoring system that is particularly suitable for small and medium-sized companies. The 7KM PAC expansion module, I(N), I(Diff), analog, can be used to add more functions to the 7KM PAC3200 and 7KM PAC4200 measuring devices.
Building on its commitment to innovative power plant solutions, Siemens has been awarded a contract from Colbún S.A. to upgrade the Central Termoeléctrica Nehuenco-I plant with Siemens' Power Plant Automation T3000 Cue (SPPA-T3000) system. The 368-megawatt (MW) combined cycle power plant is located in Quillota, Valparaíso Region, in Chile and provides electricity to approximately 350,000 homes in the region.
Siemens is the first company worldwide to have received a certificate for network automation solutions from TÜV Süd, Munich, Germany, in accordance with the international standards series IEC 62443. The secure substation framework from Siemens has been certified to IEC 62443-2-4 (requirements for system integrators) and IEC 62443-3-3 (requirements for the security functions of systems). The certified architecture is based on Siemens' experience and knowledge as a globally active company, and the processes described in the certification ensure the necessary transparency of the security-relevant procedures in line with the standards. Siemens thus develops and implements network automation solutions for power supply companies and grid operators which are based on the latest international standards in terms of cyber security and have been adapted to the current security guidelines.
- Desigo Control Point for graphical operation of HVAC plants
- Room pressure and fume hood control for laboratories and clean rooms
- More flexible scope of use thanks to new hardware components
The Siemens Building Technologies Division has added numerous new components and functions to its Desigo building automation system. The system now includes significant new portfolio elements for cost-efficient and flexible solutions especially for small and medium-sized projects that require little integration. The new version of Desigo will be presented to the public for the first time at ISH 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany.