TIA Portal V18: Solution Towards Automation In Digital Companies

Mayer, Head of Factory Automation, Digital Industries, PT Siemens Indonesia. (Photo: Special)

JAKARTA - Over the next few decades, digital technology will make the manufacturing industry more connected, intelligent, efficient, reliable, and sustainable. Therefore, business people will look for the best technological solutions to help them reduce marketing time, and increase factory productivity.

Siemens offers the latest version of the V18 from the Totally Integrated Portal Automation Portal (TIA Portal) at an event titled TIA Portal Tech-Contaxt on May 30-31, 2023 at theasa Hotel Jakarta.

"Currently, manufacturing companies want to shorten marketing time, address the shortage of skilled workers, but remain competitive. In this case, they need an efficient automation technique that can be modified quickly to meet these demands. The latest version of the TIA Portal, a unique technological innovation from Siemens for automation, provides unlimited access to digital automation services in full, from digital planning, to transparent integrated and operational techniques," saidter Mayer, Head of Factory Automation, Digital Industries, PT Siemens Indonesia, in a statement, Tuesday 30 May.

TIA Portal (Totally Integration Automation Portal) can be widely applied to operators in industrial factories and system integrators, and can also be used for innovative machine makers from various industries, such as food and beverages, automotives, pharmaceuticals, water, and other industries. This latest solution is able to provide unlimited access to digital automation services in full, ranging from digital planning, to integrated techniques and transparent operations.

Currently, users can work in a team and simultaneously work on various projects, as well as create and manage storage (libraries) that can be accessed together. Access rights can be granted individually or in groups, thus making collaboration run more flexibly. This new function is more practical for various stages of work, ranging from planning, connecting, to operational testing.

In this event, Siemens also presented various topics such as simulation benefits in automation throughout the production process, the importance of standardization as the key to mastering digitalization challenges, convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), as well as transparency of data from factories to IT levels.

One of the interesting points is SIMATIC WinCC Unified, the latest visualization system on TIA Portal that can be measured from a panel to a PC-based distribution system. In addition to the latest WinCC Unified Runtime based on web technology (HTML5, SVG, and JavaScript), WinCC Unified System also includes a new generation of advanced HMI devices with multitouches (response to more than 1 touch) and in the future, will also be equipped with Siemens' Industrial Edge.

The TIA Portal V18 roadshow event will be held in other cities, such as Medan on June 26-27, 2023, and Surabaya on July 4- 5, 2023. This roadshow is part of Siemens' commitment to deliver innovation through advanced technology, such as TIA Portal V18, for the Indonesian manufacturing industry towards Industry 4.0.