Batch Control Software adds electronic signature function.
Press Release Summary:
SIMATIC BATCH for SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system, automatically records operator actions, electronic signatures, and events associated with batch. Electronic signature capability allows user to define multiple signatures to each operator action or batch event, as well as specific signing order. Software leverages security features, including password aging and user ID uniqueness, and helps users comply with FDA requirements of 21 CFR Part 11.
Original Press Release:
Siemens Announces Electronic Signatures for PCS 7 System
Automate Batch Processes to Satisfy FDA Regulations
SPRING HOUSE, Pa., Oct. 21, 2003- Siemens Energy & Automation announces the new electronic signature capabilities of SIMATIC BATCH that help users comply with the FDA requirements of 21 CFR Part 11, Electronic Records: Electronic Signatures.
SIMATIC BATCH is the standard batch management software package used with the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system. It automatically records all operator actions, electronic signatures and events associated with a batch. The new electronic signature capability allows users the flexibility to define multiple signatures to each operator action or batch event, as well as the specific signing order. SIMATIC BATCH electronic signatures leverage security features, including password aging and user ID uniqueness.
SIMATIC BATCH provides easy-to-use tools for creating master recipes, planning batches, and monitoring, controlling and documenting the execution of batches. It is applicable to batch process in all industries and for all complexities, and it easily links to the supervisory IT levels by a standard interface to SIMATIC IT framework.
Siemens' Totally Integrated Automation provides uniform automation technology on a single platform for all industries over the entire manufacturing facility - from inbound logistics, through primary and secondary processes, to outbound logistics. Leveraging the Totally Integrated Automation platform, SIMATIC IT enables optimal plant utilization through manufacturing execution systems and business applications.
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Siemens AG (NYSE: SI), headquartered in Munich, is a leading global electronics and engineering company. It employs 426,000 people in 192 countries and reported worldwide sales of more than $84 billion in fiscal 2002 (10/1/01 - 9/30/02). The United States is Siemens' largest market in the world, with sales of more than $21 billion in fiscal 2002 and more than 70,000 employees in all 50 states. Corporate headquarters for Siemens' U.S. businesses are located in New York City. For more information: www.usa.siemens.com
Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., is one of Siemens' operating companies in the United States. Headquartered in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Ga., Siemens Energy & Automation manufactures and markets the world's broadest range of electrical and electronic products, systems and services to industrial and construction market customers. Its technologies range from circuit protection and energy management systems to process control, industrial software and totally integrated automation solutions. The company also has expertise in systems integration, technical services and turnkey industrial systems.
