The core component of a well-designed system architecture
Increase your productivity with SIMATIC WinCC V7
The suitable SCADA system for every application. Find out how SIMATIC WinCC V7 optimally prepares you for the requirements of tomorrow already today.
Efficiency in Engineering and Runtime
Intelligent tools for efficient engineering
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 efficient engineering on the SCADA layer.
SIMATIC WinCC supports short Time-to-Market when building new plants and achieves a minimum of downtime when doing plant modifications because of its efficient engineering tools.
Efficient operations management – the WinCC Runtime functionality
Manufacturing processes are becoming more and more complex against a background of ever increasing quality requirements coupled with fast product changes and frequent modifications. To ensure the highest possible productivity at the same time, it has to be possible to make prompt, target-oriented decisions regarding process optimization at all levels of a company. This requires an integrated flow of information across all operating levels and locations.
SIMATIC WinCC provides you with high transparency and the basis for process optimization. The intelligent use of information improves the processes in the company for a fast return on investment. This reduces costs, avoids waste, improves the utilization of production facilities and ultimately guarantees better efficiency and cost effectiveness for the company.
Benefits
- Efficient processing of mass data
- Tags and the optimized communication to the S7 PLCs
- Ready for worldwide applications
- Efficient diagnosis in the engineering using the cross-reference list
- Integrated user administration including SIMATIC Logon
- Efficient graphics system
- High-performance data archiving
- Efficient analysis of process values (Trends)
- Efficient analysis of messages
- Efficient process diagnostics
- Efficient Web-based reporting
- Efficient management of data records (recipes)
- Traceability in production processes
- Calendar- and event-based functionality
From single-user system to web-based solution for all technologies and industries
To be able to meet growing requirements, the visualization must be expandable at any time without causing technology incompatibilities or requiring completely new configurations.
Investment protection is a top priority.
SIMATIC WinCC provides the required integrated scalability, from the small single-user solution to the client/server solution and operator stations on the web. Redundancy solutions for highest availability and security can be built up as well.
In addition to scalable configurations, WinCC options and AddOns offer customer-fit extensions for technological and industry specific solutions.
- Client-Server solutions
- Redundant server solutions
- Web solutions
- Process Historian – Long term archiving
- Performance Analysis
Future proof due to innovative solutions
Thanks to innovative technology, all important information is consistently available – rapidly, flexibly and safely.
SIMATIC WinCC V7 thus eases your production’s intuitive operation and monitoring – also remotely.
Benefit from information provision anytime and anywhere with mobile SCADA solutions – also with available tablet or smartphone hardware.
The application of multitouch gestures in industrial environments opens the door to modern operating concepts.
- Mobile SCADA providing exactly the information the user needs
- Web-based reporting system for historical plant data
- Intuitive operation with 2-finger multi-touch gestures
Using standards for easy integration
SIMATIC WinCC all times stands for a high level of openness and integration capability because it is consequently based on standard technologies and software tools.
Starting with its first version SIMATIC WinCC relies on the market leader in the operating system area. It doesn’t matter if you use Microsoft Windows 2012/2016 Server, or Windows 10 you can track updates in the operating system. At last for you that offers additionally investment security.
The powerful MS SQL Server is integrated within the WinCC basis system. Using open interfaces helps you to automatize the engineering as well as the runtime and the access to archive data.
- Individual adjustments
- Open programming interfaces
- Cross vendor communication using OPC (OLE for Process Control)
- Vertical integration
- WinCC/Connectivity Pack and WinCC/Connectivity Station
System requirements
The hardware system requirements differ depending on the type of the WinCC installation and the used operating system.
Supported operating systems
see delivery release of SIMATIC WinCC V7.5 SP1 incl. options
Hardware requirements
- Recommended Hardware for Single User Systems / Clients
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3 3.5 GHz*
RAM: 8 GB - Recommended Hardware for Multi User Systems Server/Webserver **
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 2.4 GHz*
RAM: 8 GB - Recommended Hardware for Web Clients
Processor: Intel® DualCore™
RAM: 4 GB
* In combination with options, more powerful systems may be required
** When using a Workstation operating system a maximum of 3 clients can connect to the server
Central archive server based on SIMATIC Process Historian
Operating system:
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
Depending on the requirements concerning quantity frameworks the recommended hardware configuration for a central archive solution based on SIMATIC Process Historian differs.
Virtualisation
The following virtualization systems have been tested
- Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 /2016
- VM Ware ESXi 6.5 / 6.7
Information on packaging and licensing
The WinCC system software is available in different variants:
- WinCC Complete Package (RC) – software and license for runtime and configuring
- WinCC Runtime Package (RT) – runtime software and license
Complete and Runtime package are available with a defined maximum of PowerTags1). PowerPacks allow an increase in the number of usable Power-Tags1). Thus, WinCC also grows when your application grows
A client license is available for complete packages as well as Runtime Software.
The WinCC basic system already allows up to 512 archive tags to be configured, as WinCC includes a Microsoft SQL Server licenses. In the final capacity stage, Archive PowerPacks enable the expansion to up 80,000 tags each server. Archive licenses are countable licenses, that means that the number of tags is added.
The standard version of SIMATIC WinCC offers a configuration user interface in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian.
1)Only process tags that are connected to the controller or other data sources via a WinCC communication channel are designated as PowerTags
Industrial Security
Security information
In order to protect plants, systems, machines and networks against cyber threats, it is necessary to implement – and continuously maintain – a holistic, state-of-the-art industrial security concept. Siemens’ products and solutions only form one element of such a concept.
