Hello, I'm Luis Narvaez from Siemens Digital Industries and we're here at the PAC Expo. And one of the things we're highlighting here is our newest generation of our S7 1200 PLC, the SIMATIC S7 1200 G2. G2 standing for Generation 2, our second generation. Our S7 1200, let's say Gen 1, has been on the market for quite some time and, you know, it's a very reliable product, very trusted in a lot of applications.
But let's face it. A lot of the requirements from machines are changing. Customers want more flexibility, higher performance, smaller form factor and lower costs. And one of the ways we're addressing these challenges is with the S7 1200 G two. Not only does it bring better performance to a lot of industrial applications.
When we talk about flexibility, it's space savings. It's a little bit more compact. than the predecessor versions. And then when we talk about flexibility for machine safety, that's a big concern for a lot of customers these days. When I talk about flexibility for machine safety, one of the common questions I ask machine builders today is how do you address machine safety and a lot of the applications that you're supplying to your customers?
And a lot of times they'll say, well, we'll put a safety relay because the safety is not very complex. We'll usually have one or two. safety signals, one east stop or, or maybe one safety gate or something and a safety contact or the shut off power to any motion devices or whatever. And so from a cost perspective and simplicity, it makes sense.
And a safety PLC, while we do have some cost effective solutions sometimes is seen as over complicated, but there are a lot of benefits to putting safety in a PLC. For example increased system diagnostics. You can localize the fault and be able to troubleshoot errors from a single point. Being able to single source the engineering, all the engineering being on a single device. On a single software and not having all these different tools for engineering. Minimize wiring.
So wiring is a lot simpler to a safety, a failsafe I. O. card than typically like a safety relay or something and as well as troubleshooting. So I mentioned the diagnostics, the fault localization piece.Well, with the 1200 G2, we addressed some of those challenges. One of the things we're doing on top of offering a fail safe controller just like the predecessor, we also offer this fail safe signal board. So in the cases where customers have really not a lot of complexity in their industrial automation applications when it comes to machine safety, again, where maybe you've got like one fail safe signal, coming in, one or two, and one safety output, this really solves those challenges from a cost perspective.
I can get the benefits of a safety relay and I can get the benefits of a safety PLC, meaning the diagnostics, localization, and all those things I mentioned. And the best bonus of all, I don't have to add anything to my DIN rail. So I saved the space, have full safety up to sill three performance level E, get all the benefits of a safety PLC and save on costs.
So we're really excited about the 1200 Gen what it can offer for machine builders. Not just in the safety piece, the motion, the flexibility, the handling and design.
If you want to learn more, come check us out at the PAC Expo or go visit siemens.com.
