Bayer Bitterfeld, Germany - Lifecycle Service Contract for PCS 7 and SIMATIC IT eBR
Bayer Bitterfeld, Germany - Lifecycle Service Contract for PCS 7 and SIMATIC IT eBR
Pharmaceuticals
Bayer Bitterfeld GmbH
Bitterfeld-Wolfen Germany
Bayer Bitterfeld GmbH is one of three largest production sites with high production capacity of aspirin worlwide. They have asked Siemens to do migration, modernization and maintenance within a Lifecycle Service Contract.
The following technology is included:
SiVaaS
with 23 hosts, 120 VMs for PCs 7 and SIMATIC IT eBR
PCS 7 with 9x OS server, 9x BATCH
server, 76x OS / BATCH clients, 9x ES’n
SIMATIC IT eBR
as an MES system with coupling to SAP and Oracle
IT security with firewall Palo
Alto, system hardening, whitelisting, antivirus
Siemens service experts provided a Lifecycle Service Contract (LCS)
for PCS 7, SIMATIC IT eBR and IT security with the following specifications:
Lifecycle service contract started on
01.01.2021 with a term of 12 years and 2 migrations lifecycle, on-call service
with troubleshooting, inspection / maintenance, Lifecycle Information Services, Software Upgrade Service and contract management
Ensuring the compatibility of PCS 7 and
SIMATIC IT eBR
for the planned migrations and the entire LCS runtime
Service provided by Siemens Germany and
support from the Center of Competence Pharma in Marburg
It is the world first lifecycle service contract from Siemens with PCS 7, SIVaaS, SIMATIC IT eBR and IT security in the pharmaceutical industry.
Protection of the investment /
optimization of the system availability / ensuring service and upgradeability /
predictability and cost transparency:
The
ability to plan the modernization and service costs as well as ensuring the
compatibility of the products used at the time of the investment over the
entire contract period
Long-term
assurance of serviceability, including transparency of all costs incurred for
service, hardware and software
Professional
obsolescence management including ensuring the availability of spare parts
After the political change, the
Management board of Bayer AG decided to set up a location in the traditional
chemical region of Bitterfeld-Wolfen. Bayer Bitterfeld GmbH
was entered in the commercial register on October 25, 1991, and the decision
became a success story. Bayer Bitterfeld GmbH is one of three production sites
for aspirin worldwide with a production capacity of around 9 billion tablets/year.
