SICAM PAS

Automation for energy systems

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Simple. Fast. Stable.

Automate your substations with a future-oriented concept. Ultimately, your goal is

to protect your investment as much as possible.
SICAM PAS meets all the requirements for a decentrally controlled substation auto-
mation system. You’ll rely on simple, fast configuration and commissioning. Your
substations are more reliable and available, resulting in a stable power supply and
increased economic efficiency, both today and into the future.
SICAM PAS provides a consistent system solution for the digital automation of
substations.

Main functions Your benefits

• Automation: Store switching sequences – for • Manufacturer-independent hardware: You’ll use
example, busbar changes – in SICAM PAS, make existing hardware components and established
functional sequences more flexible, while at the communication standards, which lets you install
same time improving the economic efficiency of SICAM PAS as a simple software product on any
your power plants commercial industrial PC
• Remote and on-site operation: You can choose • Scalable and individually configurable systems:
to manually perform operating steps at any time You benefit from a modular, open system with a
– via your control room or directly on-site variety of applications, thanks to flexible, cus-
tomized solutions
• Records and processes
- Messages • Secure and reliable operation: You’ll use effi-
- Measured and metered values cient operating concepts, automation functions
- Fault records and on-board tools
- Data relating to grid quality
• Proven system architecture: You’ll enjoy the
• Compression and selective distribution: Not benefits of standardized interfaces (for example,
only does SICAM PAS continuously collect all DNV GL* IEC 61850 Edition 2 certification).
plant data, it also assigns and distributes data Thanks to the distributed architecture, you can
points to, for example, control centers, HMIs operate a substation from a single station com-
and archives puter in conjunction with additional substation
controllers
• Logging and archiving: With SICAM PAS, you’ll
support the archiving of fault records and • Comprehensive overall solution: With SICAM
events, and the archive is analyzed and visual- and SIPROTEC, you have access to a complete
ized by the SICAM PQ Analyzer product portfolio for energy automation
• Cost savings in engineering: You’ll simplify your
expenditures by allowing Siemens to configure
your plant and thereby save yourself the trouble
of obtaining a configuration license. Neverthe-
less, you still have full access to your configura-
tion database for adapting parameters and

*A testing laboratory accredited by the UCA international users group

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Comprehensive. Complete.
Universal.

In practice

Control Center

Human
Station SICAM Substation
Power
Firewall Machine Quality
Level PAS Automation
Interface Analysis

Station Bus

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Intelligent
Field Protection Fault
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Electronic Quality
Level Relay
Device
Recorder
Recorder

Communication Process Bus

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Process Merging Merging

Level Unit Unit

Features Basic station control functions of SICAM PAS

SICAM PAS is universally usable, both in new plants and • Switching authority
as a retrofit solution in existing plants. It meets all the
• Bay blocking
requirements of IEC 61850. Three factors make SICAM PAS
the perfect automation concept for your substation: It • Telecontrol blocking
features network and IT capability, secure communication,
• Manual updating function
and comprehensive redundancy concepts. And yet another
advantage: The SICAM PQS power quality system can be • SNTP / NTP time synchronization
fully integrated.

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Reliable. Versatile.
Licensed.

Sample system architecture

Control Center HMI Power quality

3 4 5

Licenses
SICAM PAS
SICAM PAS: Configuration SICAM PAS
1 Full Server 1
SICAM PAS: Automation (Soft PLC) Full Server
redundant
SICAM PAS: Full Server Runtime
2 SICAM PAS: IEC 61850 client 2

3 SICAM PAS: IEC 60870-5-104 slave

SIEMENS

up to 180 field devices

4 SICAM SCC including SIMATIC WinCC
SICAM PQS
5
SICAM PQ Analyzer

Licenses for the sample system architecture

Description Version Order No. (MLFB)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Runtime Full server (up to 180 devices) 6 M D 9 0 0 0 A A 1 0 8 A A 0

Configuration (more than

Configuration 15 devices / more than 2,000 6 M D 9 0 0 0 A A 2 0 8 A A 0
master information objects)

Automation Soft PLC 6 M D 9 0 0 0 0 B A 5 0 8 A A 0

Master protocols
IEC 61850 client 6 M D 9 0 0 0 0 C E 0 0 8 A A 0
(field devices, RTUs)

Slave protocols for

IEC 60870-5-104 slave 6 M D 9 0 0 0 0 C C 0 4 8 A A 0
connection to control centers

1) MLFB position 8: 1 = dongle / 2 = soft license

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Modular. Combinable.
Flexible. SICAM PAS UI –
Configuration

Configuration and parameter-

ization of SICAM PAS

SICAM PAS components

It’s important that a substation control system in the energy SICAM PAS UI – SICAM PAS UI –
sector meets the requirements of power generation compa- Operation Operation Client
nies and industry. SICAM PAS is able to do this because it Operation of SICAM PAS Operation of SICAM PAS via a
provides you with a modular system that works with open web-based browser
communication interfaces. You can freely combine the indi-
vidual components and then adapt them to your plant con-
figurations and tasks.

SICAM PAS Value Viewer Automation functions SICAM PAS SICAM PAS
User Management Feature Enabler
Testing and diagnostic func- Soft PLC for user-defined
tions automation with Assigning of user roles Activates components
requiring licenses
• CFC (continuous function
chart)

• SFC (sequential function

chart)

• ST (structured text)

As a supplement to SICAM PAS, you’ll receive software

products for control and monitoring as well as for archiving,
evaluating, and analyzing your plant’s fault records and
power quality data:

SICAM SCC SICAM PQS SICAM PQ Analyzer

Easily configurable HMI system for • Connects SICAM PQ devices for the • Incident Explorer: Visualizes and
energy automation transmission of power quality data evaluates fault and PDR (post-
from the field level disturbance review) records
• Based on SIMATIC WinCC
• Evaluation using standard and • Event Viewer: Display and automatic
• Consistent architecture, from on-site
user-defined grid codes, including updating of events
stand-alone controllers to the
reporting
redundant multi-server, multi-user • Additional views for PQ Data analysis
system • Notifications regarding fault records, as PQ Inspector, PQ Explorer and
single-point indications, voltage events, Report Browser
and PQ violations via text message / 
e-mail

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Standardized. Straightforward.
Variable.

System configuration

IED protocols
Control center(s)
P1 IEC 61850

P2 IEC 60870-5-103

P3 IEC 60870-5-104
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P... SICAM SCC
P4 DNP 3.0

P5 OPC DA Client COM

P6 Modbus
Automa- SICAM SICAM PQ
Archive
Control center protocols tion PAS Analyzer

P1 IEC 61850

P2 IEC 60870-5-101
COM

P3 IEC 60870-5-104 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P...

P4 DNP 3.0

P5 OPC DA Server

P6 Modbus SIPROTEC SICAM PQ Third-party devices

Basic functionality Field level Station level

Runtime SIPROTEC protection and bay controller Station automation and automatic retrieval
• Up to 4 devices of fault records with SICAM PAS
• Up to 15 devices / 2,000 data points SICAM PQ devices
• Up to 180 devices Control and visualization with SICAM SCC
• Up to 400 devices (or 800 with additional Fault recorders
computers (DIPs)) Fault analysis with SICAM PQ Analyzer
Third-party devices
Configuration Interface to higher-level control center
• Up to 15 devices / 2,000 data points
• More than 15 devices / 2,000 data points

Runtime and configuration

• Up to 15 devices / 2,000 data points
• Up to 180 devices
• Up to 400 devices (800 when using DIPs)

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Customized. Ready.
Secure.
SICAM PAS Compact SICAM PAS Cyber Security
• Predefined: Economical • Secure communication: Permits additional data
You’ll use a customized functional scope tailored to a encryption and protection
variety of applications.
• TLS encryption – Supplies the encryption protocol for
• Functionality: Like the SICAM PAS Runtime and data transmission
Configuration base package
• Password protection: Guarantees that only authorized
Function packages allow you to subsequently add all
persons have access to the plant
extension functions.
• User management: Restrictive regulation, with role-
• System architecture: The number of data points is
based access control according to IEC 62351-8, ensures
permanently defined as a maximum of 2,000 (for
that each user can only exercise rights which correspond
example, connection of field devices)
to their assigned role.
In conjunction with SICAM SCC Compact, you receive a
cost- and performance-optimized system for automating • Security Logbook: Saves all activities like user logon and
and visualizing small to medium-sized substations. logoff; security-related events are logged in a separate
Windows event log and can be transmitted to a Syslog
• License: Instantly ready
server
With SICAM PAS Compact, you have a choice of three
predefined versions with different functional scopes. • Firewall: Provides a guideline for the recommended
Thanks to the option to add function packages, SICAM network topology
PAS Compact is customizable for many applications.
• Conformity to BDEW white paper: Meets the recommen-
dations for secure control and communication systems
• Certificate management: SICAM GridPass supports the
automatic use of digital certificates that conform to
IEC 62351, the international standard for power supply
systems

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Published by
Siemens Industry, Inc.
Digital Grid Business Unit
PRO & SYS Group
7000 Siemens Drive
Wendell, NC 27591
For more information,
please contact our
Customer Support Center.
Phone: +1 877-217-4943
E-mail: support.siprotec.us@siemens.com
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Subject to changes and errors. The information given in this document
only contains general descriptions and / or performance features which
may not always specifically reflect those described, or which may undergo
modification in the course of further development of the products. The
requested performance features are binding only when they are
expressly agreed upon in the concluded contract.
For all products using security features of OpenSSL, the following shall
apply:
This product includes software developed by the
OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit
(www.openssl.org).
This product includes cryptographic software written
by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
This product includes software developed by Bodo Moeller.