The SCADA System inside TIA Portal
Increase your productivity with SIMATIC Basic/Professional
The Basic/Professional system is designed to be technology and sector-neutral, modular and flexibly expandable. It allows both single-user applications in mechanical engineering and complex multi-user solutions or even distributed systems with redundant servers and clients in plant engineering.
Efficient operations management
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 Basic/Professional 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
- Integrated Monitoring Client
- Efficient Web-based reporting
- High-performance data archiving
- Ready for worldwide use
- Efficient analysis of process values (Trends)
- Efficient analysis of messages
- Ready-to-use diagnostics
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 Professional 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
- Web-based Reporting
- Process Historian
Using standards for easy integration
SIMATIC Professional 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 it relies on the market leader in the operating system area, which offers additionally investment security. Using RT Professional (in TIA Portal), you benefit from the powerful SQL Server, integrated within the basis system. Moreover, it supports open interfaces to automatize the engineering as well as to merge automation and IT-World during runtime.
- Extensions of the runtime system
- Vertical integration
- Cross vendor communication
- Automatic creation of visualizations
System requirements
The hardware system requirements differ depending on the type of the WinCC installation and the used operating system.
Supported operating systems and hardware requirements
See delivery release of SIMATIC (TIA Portal) V16/17
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 Information Server differs.
For more information see the system manual for the administration of SIMATIC Process Historian.
Virtualization
The following virtualization systems have been tested
- VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5
- Microsoft HyperV Server 2016
Compatibility Tool
The Compatibility Tool is a function provided by the Industry Online Support with which you can select compatible software products or check the compatibility of existing configurations.
Scalability for every quantity structure
SIMATIC Runtime Professional is available as a basic software package with a maximum of PowerTags.
PowerTags are data points that are connected to controllers or other data sources via a Runtime Professional channel.
There are basic packages with the following maximum of Power Tags:
128 Power Tags | 512 Power Tags | 2048 Power Tags | 4096 Power Tags | 8192 Power Tags | 65536 Power Tags | 102400 Power Tags | 153600 Power Tags | 262144 Power Tags |
Up to 32 alarms can be obtained from one data point. Moreover, internal tags without coupling are available for additional system performance.
Powerpacks to increase the number of tags are available to provide scalability of the basic package.
Each basic package offers a free WebUX Monitor Client and 500 archive tags regardless of the number of power tags.
Software packages with SIMATIC IPCs
Ordering the automation software together with an industrial PC results in significant price savings.
A software package can only be supplied if the same number of SIMATIC industrial PCs is ordered together with the software.
Archive licenses
Runtime Professional also contains 500 archive tags. Additional archive licenses can be obtained for greater quantity structures.
Web Monitoring and Operate licenses
A free WebUX Monitoring client is part of the RT Professional basic package. Further Monitoring Clients as well as licenses for Operate clients can be obtained separately.
Licenses for a multi-user configuration
The system software with the required number of PowerTags and additionally a “WinCC Server for Runtime Professional” license must be installed on the server. Each client needs a “WinCC Client for Runtime Professional” license.
Part of SIMATIC SCADA systems
The systems functionality can be further expanded by employing options for RT Professional, SCADA options and WinCC Add-ons.. The SIMATIC SCADA systems and SIMATIC Industrial PCs together form a high-performance and reliable platform for the acquisition, evaluation, and visualization of data. The harmonized and certified total package of hardware and software offers the highest quality in all industries. A network of certified solution partners supports you in all questions of engineering and system integration.
SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal) Engineering SW
WinCC (TIA Portal) is the software for all HMI applications ranging from the simplest operation solutions with Basic Panels to SCADA applications on PC-based multi-user systems. SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal) comprises Engineering Software in the variants WinCC Basic, WinCC Comfort, WinCC Advanced and WinCC Professional
SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal) Engineering SW
Options for SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal)
Get SIMATIC WinCC tailored to your requirements. WinCC options are evidence of the modular expandability and the universal application of WinCC.
Options for SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal)
SIMATIC SCADA options
Options that work together with more than one SCADA system are just a logical consequence of growing plants and heterogenous systems. SIMATIC SCADA options are seamlessly integrated in SIMATIC SCADA systems.
SIMATIC SCADA options
Premium Add-ons for SIMATIC WinCC
WinCC Premium Add-ons are developed by the respective providers on their own initiative and have to pass compatibility tests with the WinCC basic system at the Siemens Test-Center.
Premium Add-ons for SIMATIC WinCC
SCADA IPC Packages
The SIMATIC SCADA systems and SIMATIC Industrial PCs together form a high-performance and reliable platform for the acquisition, evaluation, and visualization of data. The harmonized and certified total package of hardware and software offers the highest quality in all industries.