Siemens aims to raise its UK profile
15 Jan 2000
Capitalising on this year's enlarged C&I show, Siemens Automation has adopted for its stand, E54, the theme of its current marketing campaign - `Imagination in Process Control'.
`As a leading world supplier of process control equipment, Siemens is reinforcing its image as a strategic player in the UK marketplace,' says product manager Gert Rohrmann. `We intend to raise our UK profile to the level we have attained elsewhere in Europe.'
On the stand there will be products illustrating Siemens' whole range, from field instrumentation through to distributed control systems, as well as what the company describes as two major launches.
The first of these is the Simatic PCS7 process control management system, said to bridge the gap between high-end SCADA and traditional DCS. It uses standard automation components including networks and controllers configured using standard software tools based on Microsoft Windows. Various levels of process management are possible, from SCADA through to top-end DCS systems, for which PCS7 was designed.
Its graphical front-end is based on Siemens' Simatic WinCC, while Profibus is the preferred configuration network .
Also brand new at the field level is the Sitrans F ultrasonic flowmeter. Based on a Siemens patent, the meter is described as being `profile independent, thereby guaranteeing a highly accurate reading'. It is aimed at vortex-type meters which normally offer turndown ratios of only around 10:1. Sitrans F's accuracy is 1 per cent at 100:1 turndown and 0.5 per cent at 25:1 turndown.
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