Scalable SCADA system

Siemens has expanded the functionality of its SCADA system Simatic WinCC in version 7.0.

The universal scalable SCADA system now offers operation in accordance with Windows Vista, easy language switching, high-performance analysis functions and an integrated MS SQL server archive historian database as standard.

In the core packages, the power tags have been doubled from 256 to 512 and from 1024 to 2048 from the previous version.

WinCC objects for operable elements, which have been adapted to the Vista design, provide plant personnel with optical responses about possible or required inputs.

In the alarm and trend display, the controls are revised and functionally adapted. They are available in the previous classic version and now also in the new display, based on Vista.

A new feature allows the user to create individual buttons and to run the export function from every control. The user now configures the selections for display of alarms and trends online according to variably specifiable criteria.