- Detecting gasoline interfaces
- Identifying multi-product interfaces
- Determining product types
- Managing automatic batching control
- Detecting entrained water and gas presence in all products
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Interface Detection in Differentiated Liquid Pipe Flow with Clamp-on Ultrasonic Meter
Siemens Process Instrumentation
Siemens Process Instrumentation can help you improve plant efficiency and product quality by providing innovative, single-source measurement solutions. Siemens intelligent instruments work in harmony with the larger world of industrial automation and control systems, allowing for more process transparency and better business decisions. Profit from Siemens' expertise: a global full-service automation provider with service available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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Don't let remote work leave you feeling left out! There's a new way to stay up on the latest process industry offerings and more recent technologies. Siemens Virtual Process Automation Solutions Center keeps you up to date in a completely virtual environment.
VISIT THE SIEMENS VIRTUAL PROCESS AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS CENTER
Siemens's vast experience in web-based process control, digitalization, integration of intelligent instrumentation, remote monitoring, and support is available right in your browser. Virtually walk through the Siemens product showcase of process measurement and control solutions. Use the pop-up boxes to understand the available choices better and to dig deeper in detail. Let your mouse and or finger guide you through the latest technology. Whether your role is engineering, operations, plant maintenance, or even plant management, Siemens Virtual Process Automation Solutions Center offers tailored information to fit your needs.
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Valve Positioners for Every Process Control Application
The Role of Valve Positioners
As a control valve accessory and the interface between the control system and valves, the valve positioner plays a vital role in ensuring reliability and optimal performance in your process control loops. Using a valve positioning device, you can adjust the valves' opening to allow for varying flow rates, from entirely on or off to anywhere in between.
Valve positioners move a valve in the right direction by increasing or reducing the actuator's air load pressure. The position of the valve stem or shaft corresponds to the setpoint from the control system.
On linear control valves, positioners mount to the pneumatic actuator's yolk or top framework. Rotary control valves mount to the end of the shaft. For either set-up, the positioner is attached mechanically to the valve stem or valve shaft, allowing the valve position to respond to the controller's demands.
Valve Positioners from Siemens
SIEMENS offers you a broad choice of positioners to ensure an ideal fit for every application. Visit this link to view a summary of their positioner offerings.
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Whatever You Need Weighed and Measured - Crushed Stone, Ore, Cement, Coal, Food, Chemicals - We Can Help.
What do you need weighed and measured? Crushed stone? We can do that. Ore? That too. Cement? Coal? Food? Chemicals? No problem.
With SIEMENS field-proven SIWAREX weighing electronics, SIWAREX load cells, conveyor belt scales, solids flow meters and weighfeeders, SIEMENS weighs your world - with first-class solutions that help you accomplish almost any weighing task.
SIEMENS delivers over 50 years of experience in the weighing technology for continuous or static weighing and batching applications to optimize your process costs and quality.
- Process weighing and gravimetric level measurement
- Dosing/Filling/Bagging scale
- Continuous Weighing
- Force/Torque measurement
SIWAREX weighing electronics for SIMATIC
- Seamless integrated weighing electronics for SIMATIC automation systems.
Stand-alone Weighing Electronics
- SIWAREX weighing terminals and Siemens Milltronics integrators for stand-alone applications.
SIWAREX Load Cells
- A wide selection of different designs, rounded off by mounting units to protect the against overloads or transverse loads.
Belt Scales
- Systems for belt weighing featuring simple mounting and low maintenance, complemented by our high-resolution speed sensors.
Weighfeeders
- Intelligent systems that continuously measure the load on the belt and the belt's velocity, from which they calculate the current delivery rate.
Solids flow Meters
- Low-maintenance solids flow meters for every application requiring continuous measurement of free-flowing bulk materials, powders, or granulates.
The SIEMENS SIPART PS100 Electropneumatic Positioner
The SIEMENS SIPART PS100 electropneumatic positioners are used to control the valve or damper position of pneumatic linear or part-turn actuators. The SIPART PS100 electropneumatic positioners control the valve according to the setpoint value. A hallmark of the SIPART PS100 is its own extremely low consumption of air. Thanks to the piezoelectric technology, compressed air is only required to move the valve. In the controlled state, consumption of air is negligible.
SIPART PS100 FEATURES:
- Fast commissioning at the push of a button
- Simple operation via the display and four buttons
- Display symbols according to NAMUR NE 107
- Negligible air consumption in stationary operation
- Setting the application profile based on predefined selection options, e.g. tight-closing valve, open/close valve, small valve
- Fast response in end positions ensures short positioning times and tight valves
- Insensitive to vibrations and steam hammer
- Leakage compensation ensures a constant actual value and protects the actuator
- Only one device version for linear and part-turn actuators
SIPART PS100 INDUSTRIES:
- Power stations
- Paper and glass
- Water and wastewater
- Food and pharmaceuticals
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Hydrostatic Level Measurement Settings for SITRANS P320/420
SIEMENS SITRANS P320/P420 pressure transmitters are digital pressure transmitters featuring extensive user-friendliness and high accuracy. SITRANS P hydrostatic level technology can handle extreme conditions and is widely used in the environmental, chemical and petrochemical industries. SITRANS P pressure/differential pressure transmitters are extremely resistant to chemical and mechanical loads as well as commonly occurring electromagnetic interference.
SITRANS P320/420 is the first pressure transmitter on the market to feature remote safety handling. The instruments’ remote safety handling via SIMATIC PDM saves time during SIL commissioning: rather than manually programming each individual device across a facility, operators can access transmitters from the control room. This reduces the commissioning time in applications requiring functional safety. Both pressure transmitters have an increased proof test interval over other devices on the market with testing periods of up to fifteen years rather than every two. This lowers maintenance costs significantly.
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Monitor and Control Your Energy Efficiency in More Ways with the Siemens SITRANS FEC920 Energy Meter
Let's face it - monitoring and controlling your building’s energy efficiency is more important than ever. Siemen's diverse portfolio of flow and temperature meters combined with the versatile SITRANS FEC920 Thermal Energy Meter provides you the real-time data you need to verify your equipment’s operational efficiency and more effectively manage your energy usage. The SITRANS FEC920 Thermal Energy Meter is the perfect solution for taking back control of your energy costs.
The FEC920 Thermal Energy Meter can be incorporated into nearly any flow system at use in your building. For new applications, Siemens can design a reliable and cost-effective energy monitoring solution with our extensive line of flow and temperature sensors.
For more information, download the SITRANS FEC920 Thermal Energy Meter brochure from this Ives Equipment web page.
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Complete Level Control Solutions from Siemens

Siemens provides a handy brochure that describes the various level sensing technologies and offers a technology selector. The brochure discusses these types of level controls:
- Radar for solids
- Radar for liquids and slurries
- Continuous contact level
- Ultrasonic controllers and transmitters
- Ultrasonic Echomax transducers
- Hydrostatic
- Level by weight
- Load cells for level weighing
- Vibratory and paddle switches
- RF Capacitance and ultrasonic switches
- Remote monitoring and displays
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A One-Stop-Shop for All Your Process Control Requirements
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The Siemens Milltronics MSI Belt Scale
The Siemens Milltronics MSI is a high accuracy, full frame, heavy-duty single idler belt scale used for process and load-out control suitable for monitoring products as diverse as sand, flour, coal, or even sugar. The Siemens Milltronics MSI belt scale provides continuous in-line weighing on a variety of products in primary and secondary industries and is proven in a wide range of extremely tough applications in mines, quarries, pits, power generating stations, iron and steel foundries, food processing plants, and chemical production facilities.
The Siemens Milltronics MSI patented use of parallelogram-style load cells results in fast reaction to vertical forces, ensuring instant response to product loading. This enables it to provide outstanding accuracy and repeatability even with uneven loading and fast belt speeds.
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Reducing Material Waste in Flexible Pet (Polyethylene Terephthalate) Production
Polyester is very popular because it is a light, soft, flexible, low-maintenance material that keeps you warm. Making it this way poses diverse challenges to PET producers.
A chemical plant specializing in producing PET was looking for a solution to reduce the waste resulting from product variance. The factory produces 25,000 tons of polyester annually, which is then provided to other manufacturers to produce a vast range of end products.
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The SITRANS FC430 monitors the glycol flow. |
These source materials are stored in stainless steel bins with a volume of 2649 ft3. Rotary feeders move the mate- rial from these bins to a batching vessel along with glycol to make the polyester paste. The batching vessel is agitated to ensure that the mixture is always consistent. Monitoring tank levels, precisely controlling the dosing, the efficient use of raw materials and ensuring a consistent mix are the key parameters
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SIWAREX WP251 |
Don’t get mixed up during mixing
Each raw material bin is mounted on Siwarex WL280 ring torsion load cells to achieve optimum weighing accuracy. These load cells are connected to two Siwarex WP251 weighing modules, which are specifically designed for batching applications. The advantages of this solution are that the WL280 load cells feature a C3 class rating for accuracy as well as an IP68 rating for protection against dust and direct high-pressure cleaning – ideal for handling powder materials such as PTA. In connection with the Siwarex WP251, a customer-specific application was engineered with a resolution of up to +/- 4 million parts.
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How powder and liquid become PET
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Less material waste and reduced downtimes
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Simplified diagram showing the customer’s process. |
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Calibration Services for Process Instrumentation
Measuring, positioning, recording, and controlling are important parameters in all industries processes. That’s why process instruments need to deliver the highest levels of precision and reliability.
Today calibration measuring devices is an important production and competitive activity due to steadily increasing demands on reliability, availability and performance.
Off-site Calibration Services
Siemens offers factory calibration services for Pressure, Temperature and Flowmeters from both our own and other manufacturers.On-site Calibration Services
Siemens offers on-site calibrations for Pressure, Temperature and Belt scale of our own products as well as those of other manufacturers.This video presents the viewer with explanations and concepts for the following:
- The Siemens Process Instrument Services overview.
- A description of field instrument technologies.
- What calibration means.
- Reasons for calibrating field devices.
- The importance of calibration and verification.
- What traceability means.
- Why accreditation is needed.
- The Siemens Factory Calibration process.
- The Siemens On-site Calibration process.
- What verification means.
- Reasons for verification.
- The Siemens On-site Verification process.
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Clamp-on Ultrasonic Flow Meters for HVAC and District Energy: How They Measure Up
Clamp-on ultrasonic meters are also very versatile: They can be installed on the full range of district energy line sizes (and more - from 0.5” up to 394”), employed anywhere in the
hot or chilled water distribution process and used to measure two applications simultaneously. They may be installed where an “intrusive” flow meter is not possible or appropriate – when only temporary measurements are needed, for example. All measurements can be logged and time-stamped for creating analyses and reports.
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The SIEMENS SIPART PS2: New Features
The SIEMENS SIPART® PS2 electro-pneumatic valve positioner is used to control the final control element of pneumatic linear or part-turn valve actuators. It is is currently the most widely used positioner for linear and part-turn actuators in a broad range of process industries. New features have been introduced, namely improved diagnostics, additional integrated pressure sensors, a fast open/fast close function, integrated booster, easy setup, a partial stroke test, fail in place function, and valve performance tests. Watch the video to understand more.
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Customized Magnetic Flow Meter Solutions Specifically for Your Application
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Have it your way. Siemens Engineering Instrument Solutions (EIS) |
Siemens Engineering Instrument Solutions (EIS) is proud to offer new customized features for Siemens magnetic flow meters. This enables SIEMENS to take their high performance magnetic flow meter products and customize them to meet a customer’s specific needs. By offering out of the box features that would normally be conducted in the field, customers experience reduced startup time and cost savings.
- Custom Cabling Options
- Custom Tagging Options
- Custom Meter ID Numbers
- Custom Programming Options
- Billing Digit Format
- Register Units
- Pulse Outputs Rates/Functionality
- Adding Spools and Strainers
Benefits of Siemens magnetic flow meters:
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Siemens Magnetic Flow Meter |
- Remote Transmitter option with factory-mounted cables and connectors
- No moving parts resulting in less wear and tear
- Bidirectional measurement with no reduction in accuracy
- Unrestricted flow tube for minimal pressure loss even at high flow rates
- IP68/ NEMA 6P enclosure and cable , allowing for sensor burial and/or operation in flooding conditions
- Durable enough to withstand extreme temperatures, high humidity and erosion.
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Improve Safety and Reduce Cost with Remote Tank Monitoring
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Siemens remote tank monitoring puts tank data at your fingertips with secure wire- less communications, an extensive instrumentation portfolio and MindSphere. |
Get more from tank data with MindSphere.
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SITRANS LR250 is a 2-wire, 25 GHz pulse radar level transmitter for continuous monitoring of liquids and slurries in storage and process vessels including high temperature and pressure, to a range of 20 m (66 ft). |
At the core of Siemens remote tank monitoring solution is MindSphere, which serves as a central data hub for all of the tanks net- worked to the cloud platform. Within MindSphere, tank data is aggregated to produce diagnostics and build a behavioral profile and enable predictive maintenance. The data can also be processed to calculate other key measures such as volume within the cloud to meet your tank monitoring needs. With their tank monitoring app, you’ll be able to view the status, measurements, diagnostics, alerts and historical trends data from tanks across the network via a web- based platform on handheld devices and desktop computers, providing access to the data whenever and wherever you need it.
Choose the communications infrastructure to best suit your needs.
Siemens industrial wireless communications equipment is the necessary link between field instrumentation data and MindSphere. Their mobile wireless routers enable data transfer to MindSphere in remote locations and come with options for multiple cellular communications standards including LTE, UMTS, and GSM. This extended offering ensures the best signal for data transfer and the most reliable network for installations. Siemens adheres to the highest security standards in network security, and all communications solutions are encrypted with firewall protection to defend against unauthorized access and cyber threats. No matter the size of the network, their scalable and secure industrial communications technology is capable of delivering the solid foundation required for safe and efficient tank monitoring.
Maximize efficiency and return on investment with Siemens instrumentation.
Siemens' comprehensive portfolio of field instrumentation can be fitted to tanks to serve a variety of applications. Depending on the measurement accuracy, environmental conditions, and performance needed, Siemens offers a variety of instrumentation for pressure, temperature, level, and flow measurement. SITRANS LR250 is the first choice level radar transmitter for liquids in storage and process vessels. This transmitter is able to provide measurements for corrosive and aggressive materials, making it an excellent choice for crude oil measurement. Siemens wide selection of instrumentation ensures the right products are installed for optimal efficiency and return on investment.
Manual tank monitoring can be costly, time consuming and unsafe. As digitalization expands within the upstream market the need for the efficient management of resources while leveraging existing oilfield technologies is required to maintain a competitive advantage. Remote tank monitoring is a solution that enables the effective management of tank battery resources in preparation for the efficient deployment of transport for collection and maintenance.
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How to Align SIEMENS Beltscale Idlers
Proper beltscale idler alignment is critical for your beltscale to run at its best. Precise idler alignment is very important if maximum accuracy of the weighing system is to be achieved. Misaligned idlers will result in unwanted forces being applied on each idler in the weighing area, causing calibration and measurement errors.
The idlers in the weighing area must be properly aligned and leveled by shimming. This video explains how to align SIEMENS beltscale idlers in order to get the most out of your beltscale system.
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