The Simatic PDM Maintenance Station offers the same functionality and user guidance as the Simatic PCS 7 Maintenance Station, which is recommended for larger-scale applications using Simatic PCS 7 as a control system. In addition, a separate network can be created to the field devices if direct access is not possible. In production plants with Simatic automation stations, the Simatic PDM Maintenance Station is directly connected to the plant bus, and so communicates over the automation stations with the field devices of the lower-level field bus systems.

The system is optimized for up to 500 field devices, and it is also possible to combine several Simatic PDM Maintenance Stations within one plant. Version 2.0 of the Simatic PDM Maintenance Station can be used wherever intelligent field devices are in operation. The Simatic PMD Maintenance Station can also be used in specific plant sections. The maintenance and servicing system is designed for use by small to medium- sized enterprises or production plants used for processes such as hybrid or biogas, wastewater treatment, painting lines in the automotive industry or paper manufacturing. It supplies diagnostic data, status data and parameter data to the Simatic PDM Maintenance Station, where the information is processed and supplemented by functionalities such as overview or work progress lists, overview, segment and detailed images, status logs, parameter data archiving, global and device-specific message lists as well as cyclical functions for reading out or exporting field device information. Simatic PDM is a universal, manufacturer-neutral tool used for project engineering, parameterization, commissioning and monitoring of intelligent field devices and field components. The Simatic Process Device Manager forms the basis for data and status monitoring of smart field devices in the maintenance station.

Version 2.0 has been further developed to comply with Namur recommendations NE 105, NE 107 and NE 129. The collected data can also be transferred using an export function for further processing in enterprise asset management or cloud-based condition monitoring systems. Diagnostic, parameterization and status data from the field devices is read out cyclically. Their integration is based on DD (Device Description)/EDD (Electronic Device Description) technology. Siemens releases Simatic PDM Maintenance Station V2.0ĪugWith its Simatic PDM Maintenance Station V2.0, Siemens intends to provide solution for monitoring of intelligent field device statuses independently of the automation and control system used.

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