upgrading / Retrofit
Retrofitting of plants and machines controlled by the discontinued Simatic S5 to the next generation Simatic S7 is a contemporary issue.
Due to many years of experience with Simatic controls we offer the support in retrofitting to Simatic S7 control to you.
Why should you upgrade your running equipment to Simatic S7?
- You can get Simatic S5 modules nowadays only as spare parts or you can exchange the defect modules with new respectively repaired ones. The cost for theses spare parts are disproportional. This way of supply with spare parts is only secured for a few years.
- Prevention of unscheduled downtimes because of waiting for reparations or spare parts.
- Use of the exchanged S5-modules as spare parts for further machines.
- The aviable Step 5 know how on the market decreases and gets more and more expensive.
- Use of additional technical potential.
From a technical point of view the upgrade to the much more effective S7-controls establishes room for improvement.
- higher capacity / clock rate of the machine
- shorter changeover times of the machine
- improvement of the product quality
- possibility of MES-connections
- possibility of diagnosis
machine optimisation
Maybe even good running machines could run noticeable better through equivalent optimisation.
Very often it is possible to increase clock rates via simple actions.
Via optimised control often machine-components operate more gentle.
Do you have any questions concerning these topics? Feel free to telephone us, we willingly assist you!
