The creation of a plant, unit or machine consists of a number of different processes and phases. Here we use the term Life Cycle Phases. For a number of years now Siemens Industry Software GmbH has made a full commitment to a holistic and uniform view of data and documentation. Here we are looking at the Life Cycle Asset Information Management Strategy, which has made a decisive contribution to the fact that today Siemens Industry Software GmbH by and large determines the market today in its capacity as a technology leader and continuously develops new and innovative trends.

The various points of view are taken into consideration in the sense of the strategy across all the technical areas throughout the entire life cycle of a plant, unit or machine. The solution concept Comos thus illustrates and monitors the entire workflow. This covers both the engineering and the technical side of support for operations.

The market today is currently affected to an increasing extent by the following factors:

• Reduced times to carry out projects
• Cost pressures
• Rising quality requirements as a result of standards (such as those of the FDA)
• A shrinking number of providers of know-how
• Tougher documentation requirements
• A holistic and uniform view of the operational phase (asset management)

Monitoring of the data transfer points (handover) between technical fields, departments, partners and contractors is continuously gaining in importance a.

The Life Cycle Asset Information Management System thus makes it possible to have available

the right information | at the right time | to the right person for processing.