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Plant Device Management
SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station
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Design
Architecture
The SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station uses hardware
and software components of the engineering system (ES) and
operator system (OS) for asset management. Depending on
the project-specific SIMATIC PCS 7 architecture, it can be imple-
mented on the basis of a SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX (PCS 7 BOX RTX
ES/OS system or PCS 7 BOX ES/OS system), a SIMATIC PCS 7
ES single station, or a client/server combination.
As a result of the close interlacing, ES, OS, and asset manage-
ment functions run on common hardware. Such a multi-func-
tional station cannot only be used for asset management, but
also for system engineering or HMI.
The following table shows possible hardware/software configu-
rations of the SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station (MS).
1)
Only when you use intelligent field devices or the AssetMon functionality
2)
Allows SIMATIC PDM to be started on every MS client
3)
SIMATIC PDM-FF required for plants with FOUNDATION Fieldbus H1
The MS Server can even be operated as a redundant pair of
servers. The redundant MS servers must be configured like re-
dundant OS servers and expanded by the SIMATIC PCS 7 Main-
tenance Station Runtime functionality.
The SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station Runtime basic pack-
age already contains 100 asset TAGs. These can be expanded
by cumulative SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station Runtime li-
censes for 100 or 1 000 asset TAGs (Count Relevant Licenses).
SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station as
Single-user
system
Single-user
system
Multi-user system (client-server combination)
Required SIMATIC PCS 7 hardware/software
PCS 7 BOX
PCS 7 ES
Single Station
PCS 7
MS/ES Client
PCS 7
MS Server
PCS 7 ES Server or
Single Station
Basic hardware
SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX RTX ES/OS system or
SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX ES/OS system
n
–
–
–
–
SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstation for ES/OS single
system
–
n
n
–
n
(Single Station)
SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstation for OS server
–
–
–
n
n
(Server)
Required SIMATIC PCS 7 software corresponding to operating system of basic hardware
(without taking into account the quantity frameworks)
SIMATIC PCS 7 Engineering Software AS/OS
–
n
n
–
n
Optional
1)
: SIMATIC PDM PCS 7 server
2)
; optionally also
SIMATIC PDM-FF
3)
n
n
–
–
n
SIMATIC PCS 7 OS Software Server
–
–
–
n
–
SIMATIC PCS 7 OS Software Client
–
–
n
–
–
SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station Engineering
n
n
n
–
n
SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station Runtime
(basic package and additional asset TAGs)
n
n
–
n
–
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