GSK Consumer Healthcare Levice needed to upgrade an old version of their existing SIMATIC PCS 7. Since GSK
had fixed Siemens as a standard supplier and they are already familiar with the SIMATIC Virtualization as a Service (SIVaaS) solution, they wanted to integrate SIMATIC IT into the solution.
Siemens Service experts provided the Industrial Automation DataCenter (IADC) based on SIVaaS, vCentre for PCS 7 and SIMATIC IT.
In cooperation with Zenith, Italy, Siemens implemented the solution within two steps:
Create all the virtual machine for SIMATIC PCS7 and
SIMATIC IT
Implement a high
availability infrastructure with VSAN
The architecture is designed as
below:
Host1: 4 OS Client; 1 OS Server; 1
Batch Server
Host2: 4 OS Client; 1 OEE Server
(Win 2016 client); 1 OS Server
Host3: 6 OS Client; 1 OS Server; 1
Batch Server; 1 ES
Host4: 6 OS Client; 1 OS Server; 1
Batch Server
Host5: 4 OS Client; 1 MES RDS
Server
Host6: 4 OS Client; 1 Simatic IT
App server; 1 Simatic IT DB Server
Single system to maintain high availability of SIMATIC PCS 7 and SIMATIC IT
Embedded cyber security rules implemented into the system
GSK
in Slovakia researches, develops and manufacture innovative pharmaceutical
medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products.
