New intelligent features

At SPS 2019, Siemens pre­sent­ed its lat­est solu­tions for smart and net­worked dri­ve tech­nol­o­gy. By net­work­ing entire dri­ve sys­tems, machine and plant builders as well as users can sim­u­late machines and plant more accu­rate­ly using dig­i­tal twins, per­form com­mis­sion­ing, reduce down­times and there­fore increase productivity.

Analyze MyDrives V1.0

With the new ver­sion V1.0 of the Ana­lyze MyDrives Mind­Sphere app, Siemens is pro­vid­ing this proven app as stan­dard in the Mind­Sphere Store. The new ver­sion offers users new pow­er­ful dia­gram libraries for faster visu­al­iza­tion. The new “Pan & Scan” func­tion enables users to spec­i­fy a pre­cise time frame for mon­i­tor­ing. The new ver­sion also fea­tures an improved e‑mail noti­fi­ca­tion ser­vice, which is based on a sim­ple IFTTT con­trol mech­a­nism. In addi­tion, users can freely con­fig­ure trend ana­lyt­ics, for exam­ple for time series and scat­ter dia­grams to sup­port even more pow­er­ful bivari­ate graph­i­cal cor­re­la­tion analy­sis. A new dash­board pro­vides the key sta­tus infor­ma­tion for all rel­e­vant dri­ve com­po­nents at a glance. If nec­es­sary, users have an overview of the inte­grat­ed vari­ables per dri­ve train com­po­nent, includ­ing the last trans­mit­ted val­ue, time of last update, unit of mea­sure­ment and link to the dia­gram used. Dia­grams can be export­ed with a sin­gle click. Sta­tis­ti­cal aggre­gate func­tions are inte­grat­ed into all dia­gram types.

New functions for Sinamics Connect 300

With Sinam­ics Con­nect 300, Siemens intro­duced a sim­ple plug and play solu­tion for inte­grat­ing Sinam­ics con­vert­ers into the IT world in 2018. The solu­tion is designed for low-volt­age con­vert­ers and sup­ports cloud-based dig­i­tal­iza­tion solu­tions. At SPS, Siemens presents the solu­tion with new fea­tures and improved usabil­i­ty. One new fea­ture is expert mode, where on request the user can indi­vid­u­al­ly dif­fer­en­ti­ate the para­me­ters of the Sinam­ics dri­ve which are to be stored in Mind­sphere, the open, cloud based IoT oper­at­ing sys­tem. The new Sinam­ics Con­nect 300 device includes com­pre­hen­sive com­mis­sion­ing and ser­vice man­age­ment with inte­grat­ed web serv­er, which sim­pli­fies con­fig­u­ra­tion even with very spe­cif­ic require­ments. The web serv­er enables com­pre­hen­sive man­age­ment of the device, e.g. CA cer­tifi­cates, license man­age­ment and firmware updates. On the web serv­er home­page, users can also view the Mind­Sphere con­nec­tion sta­tus direct­ly and there­fore imme­di­ate­ly check cloud con­nec­tiv­i­ty. To ensure that data is not lost even in the event of net­work fail­ures, a data buffer of up to 500 MB is pro­vid­ed. For secure data trans­fer, the trans­fer pro­to­col has been changed from HTTP to HTTPS and the secu­ri­ty guide­lines have been updat­ed to pre­vent unau­tho­rized manip­u­la­tion of the device. Sinam­ics Con­nect 300 adds to the exist­ing Stan­dard Mind­Con­nect port­fo­lio and gives users the oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­nect Sinam­ics con­vert­ers that do not com­mu­ni­cate via Profinet direct­ly to Mind­Sphere. In addi­tion, Sinam­ics Con­nect 300 enables the con­nec­tion of Sinam­ics dri­ves in exist­ing plants with­out the need for expen­sive and time-con­sum­ing hard­ware or soft­ware mod­i­fi­ca­tions. Sinam­ics Con­nect 300 does not use a pro­pri­etary data mod­el, which means that uploaded con­vert­er data can be pro­vid­ed to all Mind­sphere apps with­out problems.