Siemens Measurement Intelligence

Measurement Intelligence embraces Siemens’ entire product and solution portfolio for process industries – summarized as process instrumentation, process analytics, digital solutions and smart apps:

• Process instrumentation
• Process analytics and gas chromatography
• End-to-end connectivity
• Cloud-based data management
• Smart data analytics and visualization (apps)
• Condition-based and preventive maintenance

However, Measurement Intelligence is more than the sum of these portfolio components. It opens the way to truly integrated, highly efficient measurement solutions.

At all levels. To start with process instrumentation, it can help a lot to save resources or use them more effectively. Valve positioners from Siemens, for example, consume 95% less compressed air than equivalent competitor products.

Emission measurements help you record the emission of pollutants, comply with the legally prescribed limits and, of course, undercut them.

The true leverage effect, however, is based on the combination of instrumentation, analyzers, smart data management, data analytics and condition-based and preventive maintenance. It’s simply about what happens where in complex processes, what patterns an algorithm can derive from it, and how you can react to a potential problem that hasn’t occurred yet.

Measurement Intelligence is independent of greenfield or brownfield. You could even say that currently operating plants still have a large unused potential for digitalization and Measurement Intelligence.

It’s important, however, that the data is available in a consistent language. This is why we drive standardization, e.g., with NOA (Namur Open Architecture).

Siemens measurement products natively support standardized communication technologies and protocols. Given a performant communication infrastructure, services such as condition-based and preventive maintenance can be easily set up.

Remote options aren’t limited to maintenance. One example: SITRANS P320/420 is the first pressure transmitter for the remote commissioning of functional safety.

Generally speaking, wherever it helps get a clear picture of plant-wide and process-wide consumption and emissions, and where it makes sense to predict and prevent unplanned downtime. Just two of many examples:

• Simple tools such as SITRANS store IQ and SITRANS serve IQ help monitor stock levels, flows, and leaks. Much of this can be done remotely, which supports sustainability enormously. Using monitoring-and-optimization (M+O) sensors, undesirable conditions can be detected and evaluated, allowing you to predict the probability of asset failure. Implementation is relatively easy with clamp-on sensors.
• There’s a huge demand for connecting analyzers with monitoring systems. With the Analyzer System Manager, plant operators can visualize data from analyzers and thus classify and validate the quality of their ongoing processes.