Are there any plans for incorporating hardware component data into Comos?
Siemens distinguishes between the Process Automation (PA) and Factory Automation (FA) segments. There is the Simatic Automation Designer product, for example, where Simatic stands for a whole product family. Simatic Automation Designer focuses on engineering support for mechatronics plants with full integration into the software and hardware universes. Even today, this product from the FA segment is based on Comos technologies. The challenge is to transfer our holistic concept of process automation, which we have been putting forward for many years, to discrete manufacturing. There, as we all know, the focus is not on 3D installation planning for pipes but on layout planning. Here I envisage exciting application scenarios for Comos. It seems the integration of Innotec is progressing at a faster pace than that of UGS… Brandtstetter: For one thing, there is a size difference UGS was a far bigger company and secondly company integration has of course not only technical but also organisa
