


The maintenance and servicing system is designed for use by small to medium- sized enterprises or production plants used for processes such as hybrid or biogas, wastewater treatment, painting lines in the automotive industry or paper manufacturing. It supplies diagnostic data, status data and parameter data to the Simatic PDM Maintenance Station, where the information is processed and supplemented by functionalities such as overview or work progress lists, overview, segment and detailed images, status logs, parameter data archiving, global and device-specific message lists as well as cyclical functions for reading out or exporting field device information. Simatic PDM is a universal, manufacturer-neutral tool used for project engineering, parameterization, commissioning and monitoring of intelligent field devices and field components. The Simatic Process Device Manager forms the basis for data and status monitoring of smart field devices in the maintenance station.

Version 2.0 has been further developed to comply with Namur recommendations NE 105, NE 107 and NE 129. The collected data can also be transferred using an export function for further processing in enterprise asset management or cloud-based condition monitoring systems. Diagnostic, parameterization and status data from the field devices is read out cyclically. Their integration is based on DD (Device Description)/EDD (Electronic Device Description) technology. With its Simatic PDM Maintenance Station v2.0, Siemens intends to provide solution for monitoring of intelligent field device statuses independently of the automation and control system used.
