System Overview SCADA System SIMATIC WinCC The scalable and open SCADA system for maximum plant transparency and productivity siemens.com/wincc-v7 Overview A standard, that fits SIMATIC WinCC® is a scalable process visual- One of the special features of WinCC is ization system (SCADA) that is graduated by its total openness. It can be readily used price and performance, with efficient func- in combination with standard and user tions for controlling automated processes. programs, creating HMI solutions which precisely meet practical requirements. With SIMATIC WinCC, “perfect process visualization“ stands for complete WinCC is a modern system with an attrac- operating and monitoring functionality tive user interface for use in the world of under Windows for all industry segments – the office and manufacture, offering mature ranging from simple single-user systems and reliable operation and efficient Video “WinCC“ through to distributed multi-user systems configuration. with redundant servers and the structure of It is scalable for simple and complex tasks. a cross-site solution including Web clients. Together with the integrated process data- base, WinCC represents the information exchange for cross-company, vertical integration and thanks to Plant Intelligence provides much more transparency in production. Content > Added Value > Packages > WinCC Options > Operating > Contact > Efficiency in > WinCC Audit systems and Engineering > WinCC/Calendar hardware > Efficiency in Runtime Scheduler and requirements > Scalability Event Notifier > Innovation > WinCC/ChangeControl > Openness > WinCC/Connectivity Pack and Connectivity Station > WinCC/DataMonitor > WinCC/ IndustrialDataBridge > SIMATIC Information Server > WinCC/ODK (Open Development Kit) > WinCC/ Performance Monitor > WinCC/ProAgent > SIMATIC Process Historian > WinCC/Redundancy > WinCC/Server > WinCC/SES > WinCC/TeleControl > WinCC/User Archives > WinCC/Web Navigator > WinCC/WebUX Operating systems and Added Value Packages WinCC Options hardware requirements Added Value The added value of SIMATIC SCADA systems Efficiency Scalabilitiy Innovation Openness As the key to greater productivity, We offer stationary or mobile solutions to With mobile SCADA solutions, you can Special requests can be easily implemented SIMATIC SCADA systems combine efficient meet growing demands – with guaranteed learn more anywhere and at any time – thanks to the support of international stan- engineering with powerful archiving and security. To accomplish this, we draw upon even with existing tablet or smartphone dards as well as system-specific script and maximum data security. They form a solid more than 15 years of SCADA expertise in hardware. programming interfaces. foundation for efficient operational man- all industries. Whatever your requirements The use of multi-touch gestures in an agement and intelligent production are, no matter how large or small – we industrial environment opens. analyses. have the right answer. > More about Efficiency in Engineering > More information > More information > More information > More about Efficiency in Runtime WinCC Specialists are at your service as qualified ? WinCC solution providers worldwide. These certified and centrally audited partners realize your individual SCADA project, also with distributed client-server architectures involving redundancy or with applications involving energy data management systems. Video “SIMATIC Partner & Support SCADA systems“ Added Value Efficiency in Engineering Intelligent tools for efficient Efficient processing of mass data Tags and the optimized engineering communication to the S7 PLCs Due to the permanently increasing level of automation and the related complexity of the plants the cost – and time – pressure is increasing because of the international competition. One response to this pressure has to be effi- cient engineering on the SCADA layer. SIMATIC WinCC supports short Time-to-Market when building new plants and achieves a minimum of down- time when doing plant modifications because of its effi- cient engineering tools. By the integration of stand-alone editors for alarm log- Resulting from the integration into the SIMATIC Manager ging, tag logging, text library, user administrator, user of the S7-300/400 PLCs it is possible to take and align archive and the acoustic alarm into the Configuration all variable connections as symbols and all AS messages Studio the mass data engineering got again much more automatically. In combination with the actual S7-1200 efficient. and S7-1500 PLCs the transfer of the AS Symbols out of a connected PLC into the WinCC project is much faster. It is possible to open each single editor separately which This reduces the time for the parameterizing of the com- makes it very easy to exchange data between these edi- munication dramatically and that’s why the risk of poten- tors. Of course the usual operating functionality of Excel tial faults decreases. It is also possible to automatically is still valid. When doing project work in a team it is of take over the AS messages of a S7-1500 into WinCC. course possible for multiple project engineers to open the single editors in parallel. Support of native drivers for PROFIBUS FMS and PROFIBUS DP, Allen Bradley, Modicon and Mitsubishi. With the help of the integrated OPC-client it is also possible to connect to any 3rd-party system. Added Value Ready for worldwide Efficient diagnosis in the engineering applications using the cross-reference list Fig.: Messages in different languages The administration and implementation of the messages Resulting from the integration of the cross-reference for the destination countries is clearly arranged and there- editor it is on one hand possible to locate very fast the fore efficient to manage. The use of UNICODE makes the places where a special variable is used for example in implementation of global applications very easy. By the case of troubleshooting. On the other hand it is possi- utilization of the TextLibrary it is possible to export all (or ble to release non used variables to align the license subsets of the) texts used in WinCC. Vice versa it is of costs optimal to the actual project. course possible to import all these texts after they are translated to any language. The appropriate operator language is independent regard- less of the language of the installed operating system. Every operator can individually choose the language of the displayed texts. For example it is possible to display messages simultaneously using different languages when working in international teams. Added Value Integrated user administration including SIMATIC Logon Fig.: WinCC user administrator Using the WinCC User Administration you consistently can Using a configuration tool there are several setting assign and check the access rights of the users regardless options possible: if it is a local access or if the access is web based. For up • Language- and environment settings to 128 user groups with up to 128 single users each the (Domain / Workgroup) access rights for WinCC functions can be administered. In total it is possible to assign 999 different permissions. • Login device: Keyboard/ Chip card Reader / other devices The user management with SIMATIC Logon which is a part That’s why it is possible for users to login and to logout of the basic system is integrated into the security system using their native language via keyboard. But it is also as well as into the user administration of Windows. There- possible to login using a chip card where name, domain fore it also covers the extended FDA safety requirements. and password is saved in encrypted form. SIMATIC Logon supports a plant wide user management and protects against unauthorized data manipulations. Added Value Efficient graphics system The modern graphics system of WinCC supports the work On one hand this possibility supports the in-house stan- Applying modular design makes it simple to create and of a project engineer as well by the use of standardized dardizing in an efficient way and on the other hand it pro- to centrally manage custom specific faceplates. Changes preconfigured picture components as when creating user vides the opportunity that several project engineers can are automatically applied to all points where the faceplate definable picture components and faceplates. The use of work on huge applications simultaneously in accordance is utilized. For example efficient operation is possible by these components enables the project developer to create with the company standards. When creating images it is the use of application specific menus and toolbars. It is his own at any time reusable company specific project of course possible to do Direct2D (soft shadows) and to possible as usual in Windows to either fix them or to leave standards which results in a much shorter Time-to- Market integrate SVG – files. them movable. for the project. The project engineers are able to adapt the Menus and Instead of using discrete colors the color palette is work- Toolbars to their individual needs by using the integrated Global settings which can be done in the graphics system ing with color indexes. This enables the user to realize ‘Menus and Toolbars Editor‘. This makes configuring even enable the project engineers to implement once defined customer-specific designs in a very simple way. If for more efficient. company standards in a WinCC project and to apply these example a customer wants to change the color from red timesaving to all picture objects