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saia-pcd.com Automation stations – the basics
Saia PCD®s combine PLC functionality with innovative web and IT technology in an industrial quality system. The base equation
Saia PCD® = PLC + (web + IT) means that the conventional automation pyramid is becoming an open, transparent structure.
Lifecycle of Saia PCD®®: Compatibility and portability guaranteed for all device types across generations.
The Saia PCD® system with its open technology stands for total transparency, combinability and openness. This applies not only be-
tween all levels in the automation pyramid, but also between the automation world and the real, operational user environment. In order
to achieve this, as a general rule all Saia PCD® control and regulation devices are provided with comprehensive web + IT functions.
These functions do not require any additional hardware but are an integral part of every device. This means that machines and systems
can be integrated into the existing IT infrastructure extremely easily.
We develop our products so that our customers in their use have a direct added value, namely to sustainably earn money.
This requires products with a long life cycle and a trouble-free and reliable operation. Previously installed products must always be
capable of being adapted to changed needs. Investments made should not be constantly wiped out by incompatibilities or forced in-
novations that no one requested.
This is why we attach such great importance to PLC-based technology, with its sustained customer benefit and ease of upgrade. For
more than 50 years, our company has remained true to these values. That is why we only use components that comply with industrial
standards and have a lifecycle of at least 20 years.
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Saia PCD®® system description
PLC + (web + IT ) = Saia PCD®®
Product care phase
>10 years
Service phase
>5 years
18 years < Saia PCD® control device lifecycle < 25 years
Changeover phase
Program-compatible subsequent generation
Introduction phase
3-5 years
Management
level
Field
level
Automation
level
Automation pyramid by definition: strictly separate levels;
iron-clad against the outside world.
Saia PCD® automation pyramid is opened up through
standard technologies
