Siemens PG: CES
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The Power Generation Group (PG) of Siemens AG is one of the premier companies in the international power generation sector. In fiscal 2004 (which ended September 30), Siemens PG posted sales amounting to approximately 7.5 billion Euro and received new orders totaling 9.2 billion Euro. Group profit amounted to 961 million Euro. On September 30, 2004, PG had a work force of approximately 30,900 worldwide.
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- Customer: Siemens AG, Power Generation Group (PG).
- Project: Compressor Engineering System (CES)
- Location: Germany
- Territory: Europe
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Power Generation Group (PG) of Siemens AG is using the Objectivity/DB platform for their Compressor Engineering System (CES) application. Objectivity/DB is serving as the storage and management knowledge-base repository for this application.
Siemens PG compressors combine major advantages such as high-efficiency, reliability and compact designs with shorter delivery periods and lower investment costs. Multiple different frame sizes coupled with a wide range of options form the basis for a custom made and a very cost-effective compressor product. As the underlying database used in the Siemens PG compressor design system, Objectivity/DB is providing the robust database functionality and performance that allows Siemens PG to design and deliver these industrial compressors. This highly complex application automates the predictable and repetitive tasks associated with compressor design enabling the company to focus on other business challenges.
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CES is the result of a comprehensive in-house R&D program that allows compressor performance and rotor dynamics to be matched for customer-specified applications. This information is housed in multiple disparate databases.
The CES design application ensures Siemens PG delivers a well-proven, fully parametric, aerodynamic design that meets their clients' demanding compressor requirements. CES is used by Siemens PG engineers to build a proposal based on the customer's inquiry. This process includes the complete technical selection as well as the design calculation for each customer's highly complex industrial compressor. Siemens PG offers multiple compressor options because of the vast knowledge base of proven standard components utilized in their designs. The Siemens PG CES designed compressors are used in multiple fields including: onshore/offshore oil and gas, natural gas distribution and storage, petrochemicals, refineries, methanol, fertilizers, olefins, and general chemicals operations.
The portfolio of compressors contains axial-flow compressors, single shaft compressors as well as gear type compressors that are chosen in dependence on the customer's requirements and layout of the plant components.
Objectivity/DB provides the CES application with virtually unlimited scalability, reliability, availability and flexibility with the highest performance and support for complex data types. The Objectivity C++ interface is heavily utilized for the Siemens PG CES compressor design system and in the interface that defines their manufacturing methods. This Objectivity-based design environment helps compressor engineers explore vast repositories of data to discover meaningful relationships within the design parameters. The Siemens PG system environment contains Java, C++, as well as C and Fortran applications.
The CES system is divided into three main parts: 1. the Windows user interface CES design tool, this is the main tool that the compressor engineering sales people use to input the design specifications for a compressor project form the customer. The windows application is run in Duisburg and is access from the field via a Citrix server on the Siemens Network. This is done because of the low performance of Objectivity/DB over a WAN.
2. the numerical processing applications, these are based in Duisburg, running on Linux machines and do all the thermal and fluid dynamic calculations for the compressor projects, then result is a set of specifications to go to the factory to build the compressor.
3. the lightweight CES interface for the customers and the sales guys to use. This also runs in Duisburg and is accessed via a web interface on the siemens network.
The main people are: Geller, Axel - axel.geller@siemens.com Salden, Dieter - dieter.salden@siemens.com Spies, Wolfgang - wolfgang_spies@siemens.com Cannon, Donald-Ricardo - Donald.Cannon@siemens.com Intress, Christine - christine.intress@siemens.com
Axel Geller is leaving the project to go back to the compressor engineering and design side of the business, so Christine Intress is taking over and the CES project lead.
Wolfgang Spies and Ricky Cannon are in the operational system support and they look after the running of the database and report any main technical problems to Objy.
Dieter Salden is in overall charge of the CES project.
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- Flexibility and Dynamic parallel access to different data models is necessary. Changes to the data model are often and have to be implemented easily
- Extensibility - Large amount of data in a complex structure with a lot of variations has to be handled
- Independence of an operating system - Programs and masks have to be independent of an operating system
- Parallel data access - Access to projects has to be supported in parallel operating mode
- Opportunity to extend the system quickly and easily - Extensions of the system and adoption to the needs of Siemens PGI can be carried out without external support
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