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● Section "Icons and buttons (Page 146)"
7.10 Asset management
7.10.1 Asset management
Asset management covers all activities and measures which help to preserve or increase the
value of a plant. As well as production management, process control, and process optimization,
above all this includes maintenance work designed to preserve and increase a system's value,
known as "plant-level asset management".
Asset management with SIMATIC PDM
SIMATIC PDM supports you in performing plant-level asset management with functions for
configuring, assigning parameters for, commissioning, diagnosing, and maintaining intelligent
field devices and components.
Asset management functions of SIMATIC PDM
SIMATIC PDM can supply extended information for the Asset Management for devices that
are described by a device description (EDD/DD), for example:
● Detailed diagnostic information (manufacturer information, information on fault diagnostics
and troubleshooting, further documentation)
● Change information (audit trail log)
● Parameter information
● Diagnostic and status information for all devices is labeled and displayed with with
standardized icons
You can find information on this in the section "Overview of Device Icons (Page 124)".
● Data is sent to an asset management system (e.g. PCS 7 maintenance station) upon
request from the system.
● Export interface
You can find information on this in the section "Exporting (Page 155)".
● Device-specific information and profile information is displayed in multiple languages,
provided that such information can be extracted from the device description files.
Functions
7.10 Asset management
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