Space-saving, high-performance heating solution

Siemens has equipped the mod­u­lar Siplus HCS heat­ing con­trol sys­tems for switch­ing and con­trol­ling heat­ing pan­els and ele­ments with a new pow­er out­put mod­ule (POM) and a cen­tral inter­face mod­ule (CIM). With more pow­er per out­put and a space-sav­ing solu­tion for mount­ing in flat con­trol cab­i­nets, the flex­i­ble heat­ing con­trol sys­tem is now even more ver­sa­tile, and can be used for exam­ple in appli­ca­tions with heat registers.

With the new POM4320 High­end pow­er out­put mod­ule for 230/277 and 400/480 V pow­er sup­ply net­works, the Siplus HCS4300 heat­ing con­trol sys­tem can now con­trol elec­tri­cal heat­ing ele­ments up to 60 A. Three out­puts can be used per mod­ule at 60 A, and six at 30 A. Inte­grat­ed cur­rent mea­sure­ment for each out­put enables heat­ing ele­ments con­nect­ed in par­al­lel to be mon­i­tored so that faults can be diag­nosed. Three-phase heat­ing ele­ments in a closed tri­an­gle, as are typ­i­cal­ly used in appli­ca­tions with high­er pow­er rat­ings such as heat reg­is­ters, can now also be controlled.

For small heat­ing appli­ca­tions with up to 32 heat­ing ele­ments, the HCS4200 heat­ing con­trol sys­tem offers a par­tic­u­lar­ly space-sav­ing solu­tion with the com­pact CIM4210C cen­tral inter­face mod­ule, which is just 104 mm wide. As a result, this HCS solu­tion is also par­tic­u­lar­ly well-suit­ed for use in flat con­trol cab­i­nets. All POMs of the HCS4200 can be used in the two slots of the com­pact CIM.

The Siplus heat­ing con­trol sys­tem can be inte­grat­ed par­tic­u­lar­ly eas­i­ly into the automa­tion envi­ron­ment via the engi­neer­ing frame­work Total­ly Inte­grat­ed Automa­tion Por­tal (TIA) – with min­i­mal cabling effort and fast com­mis­sion­ing. An HCS pro­gram library and user exam­ples sim­pli­fy engi­neer­ing even fur­ther. Smart con­trol rou­tines ensure that the load is dis­trib­uted even­ly across the net­work, while inte­grat­ed diag­nos­tic func­tions enable faults to be detect­ed and local­ized rapidly.

Heat­ing con­trol sys­tems from Siemens can be found in a range of sec­tors and appli­ca­tions all over the world: for exam­ple, in the dry­ing of paint and coat­ings, in the mold­ing of plas­tics and light­weight con­struc­tion mate­ri­als, in plas­tic weld­ing, and in infrared oven baking.