GSK pharmaceutical plant, Slovakia - Maintaining high availability with IADC solution
Industrial Automation DataCenter (IADC) with an upgrade of SIMATIC PCS 7 and SIMATIC IT
GSK pharmaceutical plant, Slovakia - Maintaining high availability with IADC solution
Pharmaceuticals
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Healthcare Levice
Levice Slovakia
GSK Consumer Healthcare 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: OS Client 1 – 10, OS Server 1,
Batch Server 1, SIMATIC IT VM1
Host2: OS Client 11– 20, OS Server 2,
Batch Server 2, SIMATIC IT VM2. OS Server1, Batch Server 1
Host3: OS Client 21 – 25, Engineering
Station, SIMATIC IT VM3, SIMATIC IT VM1
Host4: OS Client 26 – 30, SIMATIC IT
VM4, OS Client 1-5
Host5: OS Client 31 – 40, OS Client
6-10
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.