II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 1 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation the partner for the Flour Mill and Pasta Plants SIEMENS

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 2 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation PRESENTATION PROGRAM ►Introduction ►Concept ►Requirements ►Solution ►Communications ►Information management ►Advantages ►Conclusions

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 3 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation INTRODUCTION (1) The automation of pasta plants had in these last years an important evolution. The programmable controllers are able to integrate all the process control functions into a PLC and now into PC integrating through Profibus, peripherals as inputs/outputs, drives, intelligent devices and operator panels The actual scenario is characterized by a Totally Integrated Automation Concept using a common hardware/software platform standard networking to satisfy the customers demand.

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 4 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation INTRODUCTION (2) The Totally Integrated Automation Concept consists in integrating under a single automation system, three important areas which till now were automated separately as: Semolina silos (upstream) Pasta production (mainstream) Packaging and warehousing (downstream) Totally Integrated Automation (T.I.A.) is performing process control, recipes handling, lots scheduling, products tracing, traceability, warehousing and web connectivity.

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 5 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation Raw Material Wheat Receiving Raw Material Wheat Receiving Milling Semolina Silos Mixing Silos Milling Semolina Silos Mixing Silos Press Extrusion Press Extrusion Drying Cooling Drying Cooling Packaging Palletizing Warehousing Packaging Palletizing Warehousing Utilities Upstream Downstream Mainstream PLANT FLOW SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 6 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation Wheat Receiving Milling Semolina Silos Milling Semolina Silos Press Extrus. Drying Cool. Packaging Palletizing Packaging Palletizing Utilities PLANTWIDE ISSUES Distributed I/O Controller HMI Drives / Field devices Communication Configuring/Programming PCS Data management

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 7 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation Handling,Packaging Palletizing,Warehousing Field Automation Process Control System Manufacturing Execution System Enterprise Resource Planing Semolina Silos Extrusion,Drying, Cooling,Utilities ARCHITECTURE STRUCTURE

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 8 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation ►THE CONCEPT T.I.A. means design the plant automation introducing a new concept that has to consider the factory in its entirety. Production flexibility, costs control and total quality approach are successful key points for small and large companies. The target is to change a production process from a critical factor to a qualifying factor. To perform a complete control of all the different production phases starting from raw materials receiving and forwarding to the finished products. TIA is given an important contribution in terms of costs reduction, for revamping and new pasta plants

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 9 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation PASTA PLANT WIDE ARCHITECTURE Ethernet TCP/IP, 100 MBit Engineering stations Short pasta line ERP Industial Ethernet TCP/IP, 100 MBit Water treatment Waste water treatment Compessed air Cooling Silos floor Fieldbus system PROFIBUS AS-Interface MES Boiler Ground floor Press Bridge Press Foot Cutter Pre dryer Dryer Cooling/ Storage Grinding Last floor silos Press bridge Flour silos Long pasta line Press Bridge Press Foot Spreader Pre dryer Dryer Cooling Storage PackagingPalletizing Wincc Client Grain Receiving Milling Sieving Wheighing Sistem Flour silos Flour Silos Wincc Server Milling Plant Wincc Client Packaging Handling Palletizing Warehousing Wincc Server

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 10 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation ►PLANT REQUIREMENTS Real time monitoring of process variables through supervisory system, and relevant corrective actions in order to guarantee high quality. Client/server technology to address information of concurrent process to Control Room and plant Information Room in order to maximize the sinergy. Communication and interoperability of production areas (orizontal way) and other plant departments (vertical way) Production data provided simply and clearly to the decision level

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 11 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation ►AUTOMATION SOLUTION SIMATIC S7 controllers with distributed ET200M, drives technology and field instruments linked through Profibus. SIMATIC OP panel for distributed visualization and monitoring Drives Technology WINCC supervisory system based on client/server architecture with Industrial Ethernet networking SIMATIC Industrial Software integrated through all Project Phases

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 12 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation SIMATIC Controllers More than just PLC's S7 300, S7 400, S7 400H I/O ET200M, ET200S Operator Panels OP27, OP37 Profibus and Ethernet Cards

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 13 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation DRIVES TECHNOLOGY

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 14 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation The Multi Client server architecture A Multi Client provides a common view of the process data of distributed servers in one picture all the measured value archives, e.g. in one curve window all the message archives the pictures/picture windows of different servers WINCC SUPERVISORY SYSTEM

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 15 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation WinCC Goes Web Operation and monitoring of the plant via the Worldwide Web WinCC WEB TECHNOLOGY VENEZUELA H.Q. USA Plant INTERNET MEXICO Plant

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 16 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation ENGINEERING STARTS WITH TOP-DOWN DESIGN OF YOUR SYSTEM Plant / System Unit Operation Equipment Group Device / Loop - Overall plant architectural structure - Control strategy - Operator visualization - Local operator panels - Peer communication - Field devices, including transmitter parameteriz. - 3rd Party PROFIBUS devices THE SIMATIC MANAGER IS THE SINGLE TOOL TO COORDINATE THE COMPLETE TIA SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 17 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation S7 400 AUTOMATION SYSTEM TOPOLOGY FOR LONG PASTA LINE WIN CC INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET PRESSDRYER/PREDRYERCOOLING/STORAGESPREADER DOSING SYSTEM MIXER EXTRUSION SCREW UP TO 4 PRESS BRIDGE PRESS FOOT REMOTE I/0 ET200 REMOTE I/0 ET200 REMOTE I/0 ET200 PROFIBUS-DP REMOTE I/0 ET200 FAN CHAINE MOTOR REMOTE I/0 ET200 OP

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 18 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation Distributed I/O systems save up to 20% of the wiring costs:  A family of distributed I/O systems provides the right I/O for the right application and reduces wiring costs  distributed motor starters and drives used in the pasta lines allow distributed wiring of the power bus Savings in wiring costs 20% Cost for wiring REDUCED INVESTMENTS IN THE PASTA PLANT DISTRIBUTED I/O SAVE WIRING COSTS

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 19 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation Each supervisory station can handle supervision functions of the entire plant in addition to graphic pages, recipes handling, data archiving real time/historical trending, alarming. Comunication and interoperability are key factors for data flow from orizontal way to vertical way. To achieve production flexibility, for successful growth, of small, medium and large companies ►COMMUNICATIONS (1)

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 20 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation With T.I.A. concept and relevant networking /communications we can assure data flow from process level to supervisory and management level, from incoming raw materials to the finished products. It means : - Right info - To right people - At right time - At right place In any kind of pasta plants ►COMMUNICATIONS (2)

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 21 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation TYPICAL SYSTEM TOPOLOGY FOR PASTA PLANT WINCC Multi Client ETHERNET WINCC SERVER PROFIBUS DP SHORT PASTA LINE IND.ETHERNET SHORT PASTA LINE LONG PASTA LINE

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 22 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation VERTICAL INTEGRATION ODBC, SQL, OPC, Net DDE... –Web Browsers, intra / internet... –Gensym bridge... –SAP R/3 PP-PI… HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION –Ethernet, PROFIBUS,, ASi-Bus DATA MANAGEMENT STANDARD INTERFACING APPROACH

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 23 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation ►INFORMATION MANAGEMENT MES and ERP Connectivity in order to have plant information and management decision support Process optimization and data analysis Web connectivity for remote information and production control Certified module for linking to SAP

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 24 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation MAIN FEATURES: - process data acquisition - data analysis - process optimization - certified module for linking to SAP MAIN BENEFITS: - improved production quality - improved process diagnostic Operation Management Draft Model Intelligent Production Systems Profound Process Knowledge Integrated Software and Services Platform Independence PCS Process Control Systems Field Instrumentation & Operating Control ERP Cross-Company Resource Planning Supply Chain Management & Business Systems COMPLETE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT WITH INFOPLUS.21

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 25 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation ►THE ADVANTAGES It is able to satisfy adequately the requirements to operate and manage integrally the plant. It trasforms the process control into plant production control with a single system solution. It is garanted quality and HACCP certifications It can begin from a minimum architecture of one to several lines, of a small to a large plant. It reduces costs and spreads the investments according to plant growing, with an interesting pay back.

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 26 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation INCREASING EFFICIENCY IN THE PASTA PLANT E.U. ADVANTAGES :  Central control room to control upstream, mainstream and downstream areas data production  Repetitive quality and relevant improvement  Fast trouble shouting (more lines availability)  Less Spare parts (maintenance costs reduction)  Energy saving The Totally Integrated Automation advantages are the followings:

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 27 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation COSTS REDUCTION IN THE PASTA PLANT ENERGY SAVING OUTPUT QUALITY LESS HUMAN RESOURCES Due to optimization of motors control according to production needs (less power consumption using drives technology) Repetitive quality and relevant improvment,due to integrated process control and less reject during shape change Fast trouble shouting,less spare parts,resources optimization due to T.I.A. concept,central control room, diagnostic systems, intelligent allarms

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 28 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation ►CONCLUSIONS T.I.A. concept will give an important contribution in terms of costs control and cost reduction. T.I.A. concept will increase the possibility to build up new plants in new geographical areas where there are new markets with less specific experience The experience tipically of the Mediterranean countries is now available using T.I.A. concept in the ROW. By using T.I.A. both the pasta lines manufacturer and pasta producer can achieve important market advantages.

II World Wide Pasta Congress Venezuela October 2000 PAGE 29 Totally Integrated Automation SIEMENS in the Pasta Plants Competence in Pasta Plant Automation SIEMENS Thank for your attention ContactA&D Competence Center Food & Beverage - Mill &Pasta Antonio Rossetti :phone Massimiliano Andreoli :phone fax