Minimize energy costs while still

achieving overall production objectives

The new generation of

process automation system

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 Are you facing any
of these challenges?
• Improve plant performance
and your bottom line
• Optimize energy use and improve
sustainability
• Reduce downtime
• Increase operator efficiency
• Increase engineering and
maintenance efficiency

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We have the solution:

PlantStruxure™ PES (Process Expert System) is the new, innovative process automation
system from Schneider Electric. By bringing together the best of the PLC/SCADA and
DCS worlds, it meets the demands of today’s production facilities and delivers on growing
energy management requirements.

• PlantStruxure PES offers integrated energy management features

to deliver superior value throughout the lifecycle of your plant.
• Tight integration of the system ensures efficiency from design
Enabling intelligent Energy Management
engineering through operation – your engineers can develop the through seamless integration into

configuration faster and more accurately; your operators have all your EcoStruxure
data at their fingertips for better insight and process optimization; Process Expert System

and your maintenance teams can diagnose and solve problems faster Integrated Software environment
engineering - operations - maintenance
to reduce the downtime of your facility.
Architecture
• PlantStruxure PES helps you make the right decisions at the right time, Tested, Validated & Documented
leading to increased uptime for your whole plant, and more productivity
Libraries
for your enterprise. & Application Templates

Suported by specialized
Lifecycle Services

PlantStruxure™ is based on Tested, A worldwide network of engineering

Validated and Documented excellence to support you
Architectures To set up your projects, you can rely on our 40
automation solution centres in 25 countries around
Tested: You benefit from a tested system.
the world. These engineering centres are staffed
A system conforming with the PlantStruxure
by more than 1,400 application experts who work
architecture is physically wired. All components are
with you to build your system and develop your
operational and work together.
application. Our tools, methodology, and proven
Validated: The system performance and system processes allow us to apply best practices to your
functions are validated against requirements. projects with the confidence, safety, and quality you
Documented: Rules are given about how to design demand. They are also there to provide adjustments
a system architecture so that it conforms with a that may be required throughout the life of your plant.
reference architecture. All measured information and
limitations are documented.
Architecture: A reference architecture is selected
from typical customer cases or from specific
segment requirements.

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 collaborative
and integrated architecture
PlantStruxure architecture is Schneider Electric’s collaborative and integrated architecture, built
on best-in-class products and lifecycle services, from initial design to modernization. It allows you
to optimize your operations by transparently connecting field, process and enterprise levels within
your business. PlantStruxure architecture combines process and power information, helping you
to produce efficiently and safely while contributing to a greener world. It is the key building block of
Schneider Electric’s comprehensive energy management portfolio, EcoStruxure™.
PlantStruxure PES is part of the PlantStruxure architecture and leverages the key values
that PlantStruxure delivers.

ERP
System

Batch Manufacturing
System Execution
Unified operator interface Openness to the IT level System

Asset
Engineering Management
System
Station Station
Servers

Operator Stations Historian

Ethernet
Safety
Hot-Standby Controller
Controller

Control room

Plant Floor HMI

Remote I/O
Transparency of information

High availability

Power Monitoring Powerful, scalable controller

Distributed I/O platform

Smart devices

Smart Instrumentation Electrical Devices

> At the heart of PlantStruxure architecture, PlantStruxure PES provides the strong integration of functionalities in a single software environment.

True flexible client server architecture allowing to size the supervision with the right number of work stations
Control room
depending on the topology and number of users working simultaneously on the control system.

Powerful, scalable At the core of the control process, there is a powerful and scalable control platform which enables you
controller platform to adapt the architecture to your needs.

Smart devices and instrumentation connected on standard fieldbuses are based on the FDT/DTM
Smart devices
technology to provide intelligent and transparent information from plant floor to top floor, including control,
supervision, asset management and MES.

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is based on three pillars
A single
environment
that integrates
all the key
engineering
and operation
functionalities

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A system-wide, Ethernet-based,
energy-aware architecture
PlantStruxure PES is built on Tested, Validated and
Documented Architectures (TVDA). The transparent
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Integrated functionalities in
a single environment
PlantStruxure PES integrates the functionalities
you need to efficiently manage your process and
and standardized Ethernet technology ensures energy use in a single environment for engineering,
connectivity, flexibility, scalability and performance. operation, and maintenance:
Connect your devices and instrumentation, • A single, object-oriented database to engineer and
and get the process and energy information you maintain your system more quickly and easily,
need to make timely decisions and improve
• A powerful operations and navigation environment
total process performance.

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for real-time monitoring and control of the plant,
including alarms, events and trend data,
• Standard interfaces with Historian, MES and
A powerful and scalable other business systems for fast and easy
information exchange,
controller platform • Dedicated object libraries to support
PlantStruxure PES supports a range of controllers standardization, engineering, and maintenance.
to meet your process needs. The controller platforms
are modular, scalable and redundant, with the
ability to add or remove hardware online. The
controllers support a full range of input and output
modules, along with dedicated communication and
fieldbus modules, regulatory control, sequencing,
motor control, and connection to rotating
machines, electrical, power, or smart devices and
instrumentation.

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Make your energy productive
PlantStruxure PES gives you the power to embed Active Energy ManagementTM into your
process. It delivers an integrated architecture for both process management and energy
management. By combining energy and process data in one system, this state-of-the-art
architecture helps you to reduce energy consumption and waste for a positive real-time
impact on your process efficiency.

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Audit
& measure
Measure your electrical
energy flows
2Optimize
• Power metering and monitoring is a simple
solution that provides field operators with
an initial understanding of energy flow
• It gives information on electrical consumption
in subsystems, and on electrical flows and
advanced functions to log and sort events on
the electrical network
• It facilitates detailed measurement and
understanding of energy use in the plant to
improve efficiency through coordinated actions
Measure your process
variables
• Our connectivity solutions are based on Ethernet,
an open standard which allows the integration
of measurements from field instruments or other
field devices (e.g. valves)
• Connectivity across the entire process provides
effective measurements that enable more
accurate assessments
Optimize the usage of energy
in your process
• Intelligent Power Motor Control Centre (iPMCC)
fill a strategic gap between energy and control.
Motor information provides real-time insight and
improved motor protection. As a tested and validated
component, it enables lower process downtime and
optimized energy consumption
• Use integrated intelligent software solutions to quantify
energy waste in the process and identify continuous
improvement projects
Automate your process to
optimize results
• Our state-of-the-art PlantStruxure PES integrates
controllers, operating and monitoring systems and
networks into a seamless architecture that makes it
easy to get a complete view of your energy use.
• We use technology based on open standards so
your processes remain sustainable over the long term
and scalable to fit your productivity needs
Further optimize your process
performance
• Use Advanced Process Control to optimize and
sustain yield variability, productivity, raw material

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consumption reduction, and C02 emission reduction

Monitor, maintain, improve

Track your energy use
With our integrated energy management functionalities, you can now make single-seat
decisions about energy use and allocation in full alignment with your business KPIs.
• Enterprise-level, energy-focused business intelligence software solutions
• Load shedding for peak hours
• Energy supplier allocation

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PlantStruxure PES lets you visualize and optimize your production
and energy use in real time, connecting your plant’s field, process and
enterprise levels which allows for easy energy monitoring.
It also greatly reduces energy waste at the source of over consumption
by automating processes, and making energy more productive.
PlantStruxure PES turns intelligent energy into a key performance
indicator, making your hard decisions easier.

The PlantStruxure
PES Low Voltage
Power Control
(LVPC) Library can
be complemented
by dashboards
showing electrical
consumption,
production,
energy cost, water
consumption,
plant availability,
and much more.

The PlantStruxure PES Low Voltage Power Control Library provides you with a full set of objects (source
generators, bus bars, bus couplers, etc.) and their related control and associated faceplate. This library
provides monitoring capabilities with single line diagrams that represent the power network of the plant. It also
offers additional capabilities such as shutdown of less critical loads in case of emergency. This helps ensure
that a power plant system can withstand an emergency with minimal damage.

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Faster and easier
application engineering
PlantStruxure PES improves efficiency along the engineering phase,
accelerating your plant start-up and minimizing project risks.

Intuitive and modern user interface

PlantStruxure PES embeds all the software tools necessary to design
a process application.
• Application manager describes the equivalent plant hierarchy
• Topology manager describes the overall topology of the system
• Project manager defines the project that runs in the topology
In addition, the library manager contains extensive object templates
organized into libraries.

> Single, global, and innovative innovative environment

All-in-one configuration
PlantStruxure PES offers an all-in-one configuration functionality, allowing
faster system design from a single point of data entry. Via application manager,
you replicate the application as it is in real life, using your own model, the ISA88
or ISA95 standards, or any other model of choice. The design can be based
on a hierarchical organization according to the P&ID definition, allowing easier
evolution of the installation.

Innovative platform
The PlantStruxure PES platform is the key environment that houses the system > System Explorer for user-friendly navigation
structure, database and single object model.The participants are the external
components that collaborate with the platform to offer a unified engineering lifecycle.

PlantStruxure
Control Supervision Network ... PES participants

PlantStruxure
PES Platform

> Several functionalities can be combined in the system to offer a unified engineering lifecycle for
all your participants

> Control and supervision with embedded editors

> Contextual menus and services

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An object model approach
Trend
An object is composed of different facets that contain
internal information about the participant.

These facets offer different points of view of Monitoring

the same object.

Interfaces allow connections between object

instances, enabling collaboration between
participants while still keeping them de-coupled. Faceplate
Manuals

A fully sustainable investment

PlantStruxure PES remains adaptable to your Command Alarms
needs at every stage of your application lifecycle.
The original design of the process application can be
adjusted at any time, and the system will execute the Asset
modifications by propagating the required changes Management
across the plant.

Modifications of an object facet can be applied to all

composite objects or to the selected instances only,
and they are propagated to all related participants
(control, monitoring, etc.). System libraries support
versioning, always verifying consistency and
informing you about any discrepancy between
the object model and its instances.

Standardize and reuse your Scnneider Electric Devices Drives, motor starters, power meters
application Signal conditioning, process loop, sequence
Process Equipment logic, motor control, pumps, valves
Approved control system standards reduce
development cost, time and risks. PlantStruxure
Mining
PES includes a set of object libraries and application Segment specific application expertise
templates that help kick-start the design process. embedded in dedicated libraries
Cement
The ready-to-use libraries can be modified to suit •Grinding circuit
•Bad filter management
your specific preferences. Liquid Food •Valve manifold

WWTP

Energy consumption, protection relays,

Energy Management
dashboards

PlantStruxure PES brings flexibility We offer dedicated libraries and application templates
focusing specifically on energy management in order
Our system simplifies the implementation of
to help you to reduce energy waste at the
changes in your applications and manages the
source of overconsumption.
adjustments required through the plant’s lifecycle.

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Improve process efficiency through
Get a complete picture of your production process
The ability to provide operators with clear process information is crucial to driving production efficiency.
PlantStruxure PES provides a consistent control and operational interface with a real-time view of your
process. The system delivers operators all the data they need to make timely and accurate decisions.

All the standard DCS functionalities are available in

the PlantStruxure PES operator interface, including:

Trending Advanced alarms and events

Trends are a seamless combination of real-time and
historical data. When users view a trend page, they can
monitor the current activity as it happens, and simply
scroll back through time to view the trend history.
The distributed trending system handles large numbers
of variables without compromising performance or
data integrity. Operators can choose from a selection
of pre-configured trend pages that provide clear data
representation with customizable views for quick and
simple trend analysis.
An efficient alarm tool allows users to quickly identify
and isolate faults within the system or process,
thereby reducing plant downtime. The PlantStruxure
PES alarm system is fast and reliable, providing you
with detailed information about the status of your
plant. Alarms are displayed on dedicated alarm
pages, with the most recent alarms visible at all
times in the alarm banner on every page. Working
in conjunction with the controller, alarms are time-
stamped with precision, and to one millisecond
where available. This accuracy can be essential
when differentiating between alarms that occur in
rapid succession, such as with iPMCC.

Historian
The PlantStruxure PES collects process, quality and
energy data from your plant and generates detailed
reports to help decision making. It seamlessly connects
to your production and business systems to ensure
that the right people have access to the information they
need. This is made possible by combining real-time
production data with the easy and secure accessibility
of the database.

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real-time information
From any PES operator station, you can
monitor your process and identify the root
cause of any disturbance
Click on any animated symbol on the display to directly access object faceplates.
Each faceplate gives you basic object information (also indicated by the status
icon on the object) along with a wealth of other data, such as monitoring
parameters, interlocks, alarms, and others.

Contextual
alarm help:
Each alarm can be linked
to contextual online
alarm help that gives the
operator all the relevant
information to help them
identify and remove the
cause of the disturbance.

Alarm analysis: Get more

Each alarm can be linked information
to an analysis window that about your
shows the operator all alarm:
relevant live and archived
Priority, category, time
information that can be
stamping, etc.
helpful in diagnosing its
cause, enabling them to
better understand the
process event.

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> To find out more about PlantStruxure PES, visit
www.schneider-electric.com/PlantStruxurePES

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