SIMATIC WinCC exibleFlexibility in every HMI Application – from Panels to PCs

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The following major highlights characterize WinCC exible:• Can be used on a exible basis Close to the process and to

machines On panels and PCs Worldwide (multilanguage)• Innovative HMI concepts Distributed operator stations Local stations with central

access Small control room solutions Cross-plant ow of information • Web enabled Service and

Diagnostics Remote diagnostics and down-

load Automatic e-mail dispatch• Open – with an eye to the

future VBScript on-board Integration of ActiveX controls Data exchange via OPC DA Can be integrated in TCP/IP

networks Option packages • Highest conguration

efciency Intelligent tools Reusable screen blocks Multilingual congurations• Consistent conguration Using one piece of engineering

software Scaleable for different HMI

platforms • Part of TIA Can be integrated in

SIMATIC STEP 7, SIMATIC iMap and SIMOTION

• Security of investment and designed for future needs

SIMATIC® WinCC® exible is the innovative HMI® software under Windows 2000 / XP for all applica-tions in areas close to machines and the process of mechanical and plant engineering and series mechanical engineering. WinCC exible allows you to carry out consistent con-guration of all Windows CE-based SIMATIC HMI operator control and monitoring devices ranging from the

smallest Micro Panel up to PC based solutions. You can use your existing ProTool projects on a compatible basis, which guarantees security of invest-ment. WinCC exible Runtime offers attractively priced operating & moni-toring basic functions, which include an alarm and logging system and that you can selectively extend using options on an as-required basis.

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Can be used on a exible basis

WinCC exible is ideal for use as the HMI software in all applications in which operator control and moni-toring is required on site – whether in production or in process auto-mation. In this connection, WinCC exible is designed on a non-industry specic basis and it offers engineering software for SIMATIC HMI operator control and monitoring devices from the smallest Micro Panel up to PCs as well as runtime visualization soft-ware for single-user solutions under Windows 2000 / XP.

Connectivity to SIMATIC S7 via PPI, MPI, PROFIBUS-DP and Industrial Ethernet, plus drivers for controllers made by leading manufacturers and manufacturer-independent communi-cation via OPC ensure that you always have the right connection for a wide variety of automation solutions.

The multilingual engineering soft-ware that you can switch at the push of a button, the option of creating projects with up to 32 languages at the same time – ve of which you can switch online – are excellent reasons for using WinCC exible on a world-wide basis. Web-based service con-cepts that exporting OEMs and large multinational companies can utilize to promote their business globally.

Innovative HMI and automation concepts

Using the WinCC exible/Sm@rt-Access option, 270/370 Series Panels and Multi Panels and PCs with WinCC exible Runtime are able to read and write tags to and from one another. This yields innovative TCP/IP commu-nication-based concepts for the HMI and automation tasks that you have to solve:

• Distributed operator stations for operating large, physically distri-buted machines

• Local operator station with plant-wide access to current process data

• Structuring of small control room solutions with ability for central archiving, analysis and further-processing of process data across the Web too

• Access to current process data for higher level systems (SCADA, production management systems, Ofce applications)

Web enabled Service and Diagnostics

You can use the WinCC exible/Sm@rtService option for remote con-trol, diagnostics and maintenance of operator stations on-site via the Inter-net with 270/370 Series Panels and Multi Panels as well as PCs using WinCC exible Runtime:

• Remote control of on-site stations across the Intranet/Internet for ser-vice purposes

• Diagnosing operator stations using ready-made diagnostic functions

• Event-driven sending of e-mail and text messages to the service staff

• Service and maintenance functions (downloading projects, downloading/uploading recipes)

• Web server on the Operator Panel with option of managing your own HTML pages

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Open – with an eye to the future

WinCC exible is open and can be expanded at any time to provide even more exibility for vertical market and technology-specic extensions. The integrated VBScript scripting language helps you to do this by allowing you to integrate ActiveX controls and to use the WinCC exible /OPC-Server option for standardized data exchange via OPC DA (for Multi Panels too). The integration capability in TCP/IP networks gives you unlimited options for processing information and option packages for engineering and runtime (for Panels too) allow you to extend your system on an as-required basis.

and English. From Version 1.0 + SP1 it is also available in French, Spanish and Italian. In addition to a simple user interface it offers conguring engi-neers

• Ready-made objects and reusable screen blocks

• Intelligent tools for graphic congu-ration and conguring bulk data

• Support for multilingual congura-tions

Part of Totally Integrated Automation (TIA)

TIA, with its triple benet of congu-ration/programming, data storage, and communication, makes it possible to use WinCC exible to reduce life-cycle costs. Because TIA is also the basis of integrated system and process diagnostics.

Apart from this, you can integrate WinCC exible within the scope of TIA in different engineering worlds (SIMATIC Step 7, SIMATIC iMap and SIMOTION Scout); this means that it supports integrated, low-effort con-guration.

Security of investment and designed for future needs

With support for existing ProTool pro-jects, prior investment is protected and can be expanded upon. In a later release of WinCC exible you will be able to incorporate existing SIMATIC WinCC projects, thus using existing engineering expertise. With planned capabilities, you will have the option of using WinCC exible to implement projects in the SCADA eld that can be integrated in an optimum way within MES and ERP applications.

Highest conguration efciency

The WinCC exible engineering soft-ware is based on the latest software technologies (Microsoft.NET). WinCC exible version 1.0 supports German

Consistent conguration

Within the SIMATIC HMI product range, WinCC exible allows consis-tent conguration from the smallest Micro Panel up to PCs using one engineering software tool, modular in scope, that is perfectly matched to dif-ferent classes of operator control and monitoring devices. Once you have carried out a conguration, you can simply reuse it on any device from the SIMATIC HMI product family. You can transfer projects on a scaleable basis to different HMI platforms with-out converting them.

SIMATIC WinCC exibleOverview of the product range

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SIMATIC WinCC exible engineering software

The WinCC exible product range includes innovative engineering tools for consistent conguration of the new SIMATIC OP 77B/TP 170micro, of all Windows CE-based SIMATIC HMI oper-ator control and monitoring devices as well as PC-based systems using WinCC exible Runtime. SIMATIC WinCC ex-ible is available on a graduated price and performance basis, that can be tailored to your specic operator con-trol and monitoring devices in an opti-mum way. Upward compatibility is always ensured within the WinCC ex-ible offering.

• SIMATIC WinCC exible Micro Micro Panels: TP 170micro

• SIMATIC WinCC exible CompactSame as WinCC exible Micro plus70 Series Panels: OP 77B170 Series Panels: TP/OP 170 Mobile Panel 170

• SIMATIC WinCC exible Standard Same as WinCC exible Compact plus270 Series Panels: TP/OP 270270/370 Series Multi Panels: MP 270B, MP 370

• SIMATIC WinCC exible AdvancedSame as WinCC exible Standard plus Panel PCs and standard PCs

SIMATIC HMI

With SIMATIC HMI, Siemens Automa-tion and Drives offers you a complete range for many different tasks in the eld of operation and monitoring - from a single source. From operator control and monitoring devices and visualization software for local Operat-ing & Monitoring through to scaleable SCADA systems for a wide variety of different requirements in process visu-alization: We offer you a nely gradu-ated range of innovative and economic products and systems.

All Windows-based operator control and monitoring devices from the SIMATIC HMI product range and local PC single-user solutions are already congurable using WinCC exible V1.0.

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WinCC exible – runtime and engineering options for Panels, Multi Panels and PCs

SIMATIC WinCC exible runtime software

With SIMATIC HMI operator control and monitoring devices, the runtime software is on-board and, depending on the equipment‘s hardware, this gives you different HMI func-tionality and performance proles. For PC platforms, WinCC exible Runtime can be used on a graduated basis through the use of PowerTags:

• 128, 512 or 2048 PowerTags

Only variables count as PowerTags that have a process connection to the controller. Apart from this, variables without a process link, constant limit values of variables as well as (up to 4000) messages are available as additional performance.

Powerpacks

Powerpacks allow you to increase the number of useable PowerTags. As your application grows, so does WinCC ex-ible. Start off with the smallest tag count and then add tags via Powerpacks as your requirements increase. Powerpacks also allow you to upgrade your engineering software to grow from an initial use of Panels and Multi Panels (in WinCC exible Standard) to full deployment of PC solutions (WinCC exible Advanced).

Options

You can obtain individual functional or vertical market extensions to the engineering and runtime software in the form of WinCC exible options.

New operator control and monitoring devices – Exclusively congurable using WinCC exible

SIMATIC OP 77B: A new graphics dimension – small and smart

Based on the success of the OP7, we integrated in the new OP 77B a full-graphics 4.5“ display as well as innova-tive functions and interfaces (e.g. USB, MMC Card Slot, PROFIBUS-DP and MPI).

SIMATIC TP 170 micro: Tailor-made for applications with the SIMATIC S7-200

The successor to the TP 070 Touch Panel offers a number of innovations: including PPI-multi-master-communication for network capability, an alarm and password system and ve online languages.

SIMATIC MP 270B 6“ Touch: The smallest multifunctional platform

With its 5.7“ TFT touchscreen (256 colors) the Multi Panel offers a wide range of interfaces in a small footprint; these include Ethernet, PC/CF Card Slot, MPI, PROFIBUS-DP or USB and you can extend them on a modular basis by means of options.

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WinCC exible – Project window

Reduced engineering effort due to consistency and TIA

The consistency of the engineering software reduces the time, cost and effort needed for training, mainte-nance and documentation. Automa-tion engineers and service staff can use the same tool even if they have to congure or maintain different target systems. Once you have carried out a conguration, you can simply reuse it on any device from the SIMATIC HMI product family. You can transfer pro-jects to different HMI platforms with-out converting them. As a result, the user interface adapts to the options of the currently congured device. This means that you can transfer engineer-ing expertise to different HMI plat-forms on a scaleable basis.

The expertise that you gain here is a protected knowledge investment that can be used later when using WinCC exible for creating larger pro-jects, e.g. for multiuser projects with distributed or redundant servers on which several conguring engineers can work at the same time and on a distributed basis.

In the same way as with the other SIMATIC HMI products, you directly benet from Totally Integrated Auto-mation (TIA) which minimizes your engineering effort, and in the nal analysis, also reduces the lifecycle costs of the automation solution.

A simple and convenient user interface

The engineering software is based on the latest software technology (Microsoft.NET); it is currently avail-able in German and English and from version 1.0 + SP1 also in French, Spanish and Italian. It contains a range of editors and tools for different conguration tasks. You carry out conguration using up to 32 screen layers. For conguring the screens,

you have available convenient func-tions for zooming in and out, for rotat-ing and aligning objects.

In WinCC exible, you can congure the positions and behaviors of win-dows and toolbars on an individual basis. This allows you to set up a working environment that exactly matches your needs. The congura-tion of WinCC exible‘s working envi-ronment is user-linked to the user who is logged on to Microsoft Win-dows and maintained when the pro-ject is saved. The next time you open the project, the system restores the positions and the behaviors of win-dows and toolbars from the time that you last saved them. This means that you nd your working environment just the way you left it – customized for you. This is also the case if you open a project that another cong-uring engineer had previously edited. This means that you can start your conguration task in a familiar envi-ronment.

The system displays the WinCC exible Work-bench on the congu-ration computer‘s screen when you create a new project in WinCC exible, by using the Project Start Wizard to create a navi-gation and system screens or if you open an existing project. In Project View, the system displays the project structure and man-ages the project.

There is a special editor for each conguration task. You congure the graphic user interface of an operator panel in the “Screens“ editor, for exam-ple. For conguring mes-sages, you use “Messag-ing“, for example. All the

conguration data that belongs to the project is saved in the project data-base.

Intelligent tools for efcient conguration

Using a Wizard, you can specify the basic structure of a WinCC exible project right from the start using only a few mouse clicks. Here, you specify the type of project, the PLC and the Operator Panel, the number of screens including navigation, the tem-plate, service screens and libraries.

Graphic conguration makes it easier to carry out complex conguration tasks like dening motion paths or cre-ating screen navigation.

The motion path of a screen object is composed of the start point and the end point, which you can easily determine using the mouse. You assign a variable to this motion path. At runtime, the variable value then determines the relative position of

the object on the motion path.

Table-based editors make it easier to create and edit objects of the same type, e.g. for vari-ables, texts or messages. You can use the advan-tages at conguration of a large number of objects, e.g. when creating and editing variables. If you create several variables with a process connection that are created one after the other in the control-ler‘s memory, you can have the system auto-matically increment the address range for each variable. You can, how-ever, also change iden-tical settings for several variables at one time, e.g.

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WinCC exible – Project Wizard

WinCC exible Standard – Project documentation

WinCC exible Standard – Conguring a Mobile Panel

the variable type or the controller.

Convenient nd and replace func-tions allow you to carry out a cross-project search for objects, to carry out central rewiring of variables and to nd and replace texts. Apart from this, the cross-reference list gives you direct access to all the objects in the project.

In addition, it is possible to print hard copies of project documenta-tion selectively or completely or to save the documentation to a le (in .pdf, .xls, .rtf, .txt or .html format). This means that you can completely document your projects.

Simple extensions using VBScript (270 Series Panels and above)

As standard, WinCC exible offers a large number of dynamizing options for objects. However, if you want to be even more exible, you have available VBScript, which is a powerful and easy to learn script language based on Visual Basic. You can immediately leverage your Visual Basic knowledge.

The IntelliSense function allows you to quickly program accesses to objects of the runtime object model. In this connection, you can access both WinCC exible objects and the object models of other applications. Script debugging

Reusable objects and building block technology

You can save reusable objects on a structured basis in libraries. In this connection, WinCC exible provides a large number of scaleable and dynamizable objects. You can con-struct screen blocks from simple screen objects on a cus-tomer- or project-specic basis. By referencing one of the objects or blocks in the library, you can carry out modica-tions in the entire project from one central location and the system then changes the block at the same time in all the screens of the project where it is used.

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is possible at the engineering stage in the Simulator and, if required, at run-time.

Multilingual projects for international deployment

WinCC exible also supports you in an optimum way when creating multilingual congurations in up to 32 languages (ve of which can be switched online) for worldwide deployment. Switchable views allow conguring engineers to enter con-guration data on a multilingual basis. You can manage language-dependent texts and graphics in a cen-tral text library that carries out auto-matic translation on the basis of the system- and user-specic dictionaries. If required, you can also export and import texts to have them translated by an external service provider using standard tools.

Integration in automation systems

Integration in SIMATIC STEP 7

Due to integration in the conguration interface of SIMATIC STEP 7 (V5.2 and above), it is possible to manage WinCC exible projects within STEP 7 and to share the use of communications settings, variables and messages. This results in considerably fewer errors and in the nal analysis much less time and effort for conguration. In this connection, the SIMATIC Manager gives you access to all the objects of WinCC exible.

During conguration, you directly access the STEP 7 symbol table. The symbol table contains communica-tions settings (e.g. bus addresses) and protocols of controllers as well as data point denitions (e.g. addresses or data types) that you specied when you created your controller program.

Integration in SIMATIC iMap

Component Based Automation (CBA) is the response to the increasing inu-ence of mechatronics in mechanical

and plant engineering. As a new con-cept of Totally Integrated Automation (TIA), CBA supports consistent modu-larization due to component techno-logy in mechanical and plant engi-neering.

Completed and tested modules for mechanical components, electronics and software for individual machine functions speed up the creation of

complex machines. This reduces the number of faults and errors and reduces total costs. Using WinCC ex-ible, you create the HMI view of a module that you group into a total module together with the control sec-tion. In the SIMATIC iMap intercon-nection editor (V2.0 and above), you connect together the interfaces of the modules on a graphical basis. You do

WinCC exible integrated in the SIMATIC Manager

Intelligent eld devices

Engineering station

Ethernet PROFIBUS-Link

Technological module:Mechanical components +

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Compatible application of conguration data

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not need to program the communica-tions relationships. The system then uses this interconnection information and the HMI sections in the modules to automatically create the basis of visualization using WinCC exible.

In this way, the system supports modular machine concepts based on PROFInet.

Integration in SIMOTION SCOUT

Integrating WinCC exible in SIMO-TION SCOUT (V3.1 and above) pro-vides the same advantages as integra-tion in SIMATIC STEP 7; apart from this, it offers complete integration in the SIMOTION SCOUT user interface as well as automatic generation of pro-cess screens in dependence on con-gured objects. These can be axis pictures for manual operation for a machine‘s congured axes, for exam-ple.

Change Control – Versioning and tracking changes

Assuming that you are using WinCC exible Advanced, you can use the WinCC exible/ChangeControl option to version-manage congura-tion data and to track changes in congurations.

OEMs and custom machinery builders can benet from this capability that enables you to manage your projects with a clear overview, record delivered customer versions and later modica-tions, for example. In general, you can use ChangeControl to secure interim status conditions in the case of com-plex innovations or extensions and if push comes to shove to carry out a rollback. In the case of jobbing work, WinCC exible provides the basis for calculating the time and effort needed for modications; in regulated indus-tries it can provide verication of the status of plant or machines or of modi-cations that may have been carried out. In this way, you can provide complete verication of a product‘s

entire life cycle and if required you can verify the change history.

Security of investment by taking over conguration data

WinCC exible provides security of investment with an eye to the future because you can simply apply com-plete congurations using tools from the ProTool family (ProTool/Lite, Pro-Tool, ProTool/Pro) and use them for a project based on WinCC exible.

In the case of Windows CE-based oper-ator control and monitoring devices, this functions on a 1 to 1 basis. With other target systems (e.g. SIMATIC OP 7, OP27/37, TP27/37), you can con-vert the conguration data for an appropriate device that WinCC exible supports.

In the same way, you can use static screens and variables from SIMATIC WinCC V6.0 with WinCC exible V1.0. This means that applying entire pro-jects will be possible with a further stage of WinCC exible.

SIMATIC WinCC exibleRuntime – The basic functions

SIMATIC WinCC exible Runtime offers you all the options you need for oper-ating and monitoring:

• Operator functions

• Graphics and trend representations,

• Alarm system

• Logging system

• Archiving (option)

• Recipe management (option)

• Process diagnostics (option)

• OPC communication (option)

• Service & Diagnostics across the Web (option)

• Client/server concepts (option)

Due to its individually scaleable system functionality, with WinCC exible you only pay for the functionality that you need to solve your current HMI task. Coupled with Powerpacks to increase the number of PowerTags, this pro-vides low initial costs. You can also exibly expand the runtime function-ality at any time using Visual Basic scripts. VBScript is a component of the WinCC exible engineering software.

Access protection

If necessary, you can activate access protection. In this connection, it is pos-sible to create user groups that have specic privileges. To be able to carry out particular operator inputs, users must log on to the HMI system with their user names and passwords.

Operating and representation options

In WinCC exible, the system carries out visualization by means of a Win-dows-conformant user interface that is composed of parameterizable screen objects and pictures that you create on a project-specic basis:

• Numeric and alphanumeric input/output elds

• Static text and graphics display as well as vector graphics

• Dynamizable graphics from the HMI symbol library

• Bar charts

• Trend graphics with paging and zoom functions and cursor line

• Signal-dependent text and graphics lists

• Pushbuttons and switches for pro-cess operation

• Editing boxes for process values (signals)

• Analog display, sliders as an example of further screen objects

• Project-specic screen blocks cre-ated from basic system objects

• Graphics displays for different stan-dard graphics formats, e.g. bmp, .jpg, .wmf

Alarms and messages

The system generates messages in WinCC exible in three ways:

• Bit messages

• Analog messages

• Messages via message frame alarm procedure Alarm S with SIMATIC S7

Using freely denable message classes, you can determine the acknowledgement response and the representation of the alarm events.

Logs/reports

In WinCC exible, you can output logs or reports on a time- or event-driven basis. In this connection, you can design the layout in any way you like.

Output is either to the printer or to a le in .pdf, .xls, .rtf, .txt, or .html format.

Language support for multilingual projects

You can congure texts and graphics on a language-dependent basis. In this connection, the project can include up to ve online languages (including Asian and Cyrillic texts). You can then switch between these languages at runtime.

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SIMATIC WinCC exibleRuntime – Expandable using options

Benets

• Early detection of danger and dis-turbances

• Avoidance of down times due to predictive diagnostics based on archived data

• Increased product quality and productivity due to regular evalu-ation of process value and mes-sage archives

With the runtime options, you need a separate license for each operator sta-tion or server/client.

WinCC exible/Archives – Archiving process values and messages

Process value and message archiving is for acquiring and processing process data from an industrial plant/machine. Evaluating archived process data then gives you information about the oper-ating status of the plant/machine in the course of the industrial process (production, machining, processing, etc.).

In this connection, you can document the course of the process; check the rate of utilization or quality of produc-tion; or verify repeated error status conditions. The display is by means of trend displays. Storing the process

data in CSV les or, if desired, in an ODBC database makes possible long-term archiving as well as evaluation using external tools.

Trend and alarm displays

To represent and evaluate archived process values, you can use a con-gurable trend display in your screens. A cursor line helps you to read off the values. There is also a congurable alarm display for chronologically dis-playing the acquired messages on the screen.

Archiving and evaluation

You can export acquired process values and messages for long-term archiving either manually or on a pro-cess-controlled basis. If required, you can then import them selectively and analyze them using WinCC exible resources. Depending on the length of the archiving period, you can save the process data in sequence or cyclic archives either as CSV les or in ODBC databases (e.g. Microsoft Access). In this connection, the system uses all the archiving media that Windows supports.

SIMATIC WinCC exible/Recipes – Managing data records in recipes

The Recipes option is for managing data records that contain connected machine or production data. You can, for example, transfer the contents of a data record from the operator panel to the controller to switch production to another product variant. Recipes are often used for parameterizing plants/machines in manufacturing industry but especially in the context of batch-oriented production in the food or plastics industries.

Recipes from the operator‘s point of view

With WinCC exible, you can use a separate editor to conveniently create recipes and the associated data records and to pre-assign them with data. A congurable table object is for displaying and managing data at runtime. If necessary, you can also represent the individual data record elements directly as standard input/output elds across several process screens. This means that the system can present the data to operators in clear technological views.

Benets

• Pre-assignment and management of machine parameters and pro-duction data

• Simple transfer of recipes to the controller

• Clear representation in table form of the data elements

• Representation in a technological context across several process screens

• Simple user guidance due to stan-dard functions

• Import/export functions of data records for further-processing using other tools (e.g. Microsoft Excel)

Data exchange with the controller, storage and logging

Data record elements are linked to the process via a direct tag link with the tags in the controller. It is possible to transfer the data records in both direc-tions, i.e. specications from the oper-ator stations result in production data from the controller. In this connection, powerful interfaces make possible synchronized data exchange with the controller. You can store the data records on local data carriers or on a network drive; if desired, you can also import and export them in CSV format. To record individual produc-tion and process sequences, it is pos-sible to document the data records in the form of a batch or shift log.

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Benets

• Distributed operator stations for operating large, physically dis-tributed machines

• Local operator station with plant-wide access to current process data

• Structuring of relatively small control room solutions with options for central archiving, analysis and further-processing of process data across the Web too

• Access to current process data for higher level systems (SCADA, production management systems, Ofce applications)

SIMATIC WinCC exible/ Sm@rtAccess

Using the WinCC exible/Sm@rt-Access option, 270/370 Series Panels and Multi Panels and PCs with WinCC exible Runtime are able to read and write process variables to and from one another. This yields innova-tive concepts for HMI and automation tasks based on TCP/IP communication

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Sm@rtAccess – Physically distributed machine with several operator stations

for panels too: plant-wide operating & monitoring and data accesses as well as consistent ows of information through to the production manage-ment level.

If you use Sm@rtAccess, the station that makes available your Tag Man-agement to other stations automati-cally becomes a Sm@rt server; in the same way, the other station that uses

Local operator control and monitoring devices can also access the tags of other stations. This means that you can easily combine „isolated solutions“ such that distributed information is available centrally. For this, you do not need to intervene in the controller program and there is no additional overhead for process communication. If an HTTP channel is used, you can even exchange data across the Web.

these tags becomes a Sm@rt client. In this connection, individual operator stations can be both Sm@rt Servers and Sm@rt clients at the same time depending on the part they are play-ing at any given time.

Operating large, physically distributed plant and machinery is made much easier, since you can use WinCC ex-ible to congure distributed operator stations such that operators can carry out exclusive operating and monitor-ing from different locations – and all this with just one conguration. This means that it is only necessary to make changes to the conguration once.

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This concept even allows you to struc-ture favorably priced, small, central control room solutions. If you use a PC for this, it results in additional options for archiving, analyzing and further-processing the acquired pro-cess data.

The same data exchange option is available between WinCC exible and Ofce applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel) using an appropriate script. Using OPC, this read and write access to current process data is also possible for higher level systems (Production Management Systems, ERP applica-tions) so that they can further-process the data for calculating specied values.

Sm@rtService – Automatic generation of e-mails/text messages

SIMATIC WinCC exible/ Sm@rtService – Diagnostics and maintenance via the Internet

You can use the Sm@rtService option for remote control, diagnostics and maintenance of operator stations on-site via the Internet with 270 Series Panels and Multi Panels as well as PCs using WinCC exible Runtime:

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Benets

• Global access of the service and maintenance personnel to machines/plants

• Rapid elimination of disturbances or down times with subsequent increase in productivity

• Avoiding expensive on-site service callouts

Sm@rtService – Remote control of an on-site station across the Internet

• Remote control of an on-site station across the Internet with the help of Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer

• Diagnosing operator stations using ready-made diagnostic functions

• Selective, event-driven reporting of errors via e-mail and text messages

• Service and maintenance functions

• Downloading projects, downloading/uploading recipes

Remote operating and monitoring stations using WinCC exible with Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer is depen-dent on TCP/IP communication (LAN, Intranet/Internet). In this connection, an integrated Web server makes avail-able standard HTML pages. From a Homepage, it is possible to initiate the

following functions:

• Remote control of the station across the Intranet/Internet using Internet Explorer

• Starting and stopping runtime for maintenance purposes

• Remote access to recipe data records, passwords and system-spe-cic information

• Access to the station les via the File Explorer

• Downloading conguration data via the Intranet/Internet

In this connection, you can add your own HTML pages at any time you like.

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Sm@rtService – Diagnostics options

For efcient diagnostics, you can call standard HTML pages. In addition, WinCC exible can automatically send e-mails to the maintenance personnel via an SMTP server (Simple Mail Trans-fer Protocol). Dispatching e-mails of this type can be triggered by the fol-lowing events:

• The system reporting a specic mes-sage class

• Messages for a parameterizable standard function (e.g. change in the value of a tags, a script, etc.)

The potential contents of this type of e-mail are:

• A message text containing process variables (maximum of 256 charac-ters)

• Date/time

• E-mail address for responses

If you use e-mail/SMS gateways, you have access to standard networks (an external service provider is necessary for this) and, in critical situations, the system can even send a text message to your cellphone from the local sta-tion.

To exclude unauthorized access, it is possible to activate password protec-tion; depending on the functions to be triggered, you can congure different passwords.

SIMATIC WinCC exible/OPC-Server – Non-proprietary communication

OPC (OLE for Process Control) desig-nates a standardized, non-proprie-tary software interface. OPC is based on COM (Component Object Model), DCOM (Distributed COM) or XML Win-dows technology. In conjunction with OPC, you can use Windows-based sys-tems like the SIMATIC Panel PC or SIMATIC Multi Panels, for example, for tasks that are close to machines and the process. At the same time, they can communicate with any OPC-capable application across an Ethernet using TCP/IP and OPC DA (Data Access). In this connection, WinCC exible Runtime or the SIMATIC Multi Panel makes available as an OPC server current process data for one or more OPC clients.

This means that locally acquired data is available on a plant-wide basis to pro-

OPC communication with higher level systems using WinCC exible

vide important information at a central location or to make possible (central) archiving of process data. Amongst other things, linking to MES, ERP or Ofce applications is possible. You can choose the relevant tags on the OPC client across the entire network using the OPC Browser from the OPC server‘s Tag Management.

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Benets

• Selective and fast process diag-nostics in plants and machines that are controlled and monitored by SIMATIC S7 / WinAC and SIMATIC WinCC exible.

• Reduced downtimes, increased machine and plant availability

• A universal and standardized diagnostics concept for different SIMATIC components with diag-nostics by means of standard screens

• No additional conguration effort for the diagnostics functionality due to automatic generation of diagnostics-relevant parts for the controller and HMI

• Unloading the controller with regard to memory required and program execution times

SIMATIC WinCC exibleRuntime – Expandable using options

Process diagnostics using WinCC exible/ProAgent

SIMATIC WinCC exible/ProAgent – Reliable process diagnostics

Massive disturbances in the global pro-cess can be caused by a defective actu-ator or sensor, a disturbed movement, an interlock that is not fullled or an expired timeout.

WinCC exible/ProAgent makes possi-ble selective and rapid process diag-nostics with plant and machinery. Due to ProAgent‘s complete integration in the world of SIMATIC process diag-nostics, it offers a consistent solution based on STEP 7, the S7-PDIAG, S7-GRAPH and S7-HiGraph engineering tools and the SIMATIC S7-300/-400® and WinAC® control systems. In this connection, all the driver connections of the SIMATIC S7 Protocol Suite are supported. Different variants of ProAgent are offered for Panels (270 Series and above), Multi Panels and PC platforms.

If a process disturbance occurs, ProAgent determines in conjunction with the engineering tools information about the location of the fault and its cause and supports elimination of the fault. This means that ProAgent is an integral component of Totally Inte-grated Automation (TIA) for increas-ing productivity and reducing the lifecycle costs with a minimum engi-neering effort.

of the products. An obligation to provide the respective characteristics shall only exist if expressly agreed in the terms of contract. Availa-bility and technical specications are subject to change without notice.