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Siemens ST PCS 7 · 2017 (Preliminary edition)
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Operator System
OS Software
OS Standard Software for Single Station/Server/Client
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Overview
The OS standard software is adapted to the SIMATIC PCS 7
Industrial Workstations offered (OS
single station, OS
server and
OS client).
It can be adapted to plants of various sizes by adding cumula-
tive SIMATIC PCS 7 OS Runtime licenses for sets of 100, 1 000
and 5 000 process objects (PO). The expansion limits are
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8 500 POs per OS Single Station
•
12 000 POs per OS Server
The high-performance circular buffer archiving system inte-
grated in the OS standard software for OS single station and
OS server for temporary archiving can be expanded up to the
maximum limit of 10 000 tags with cumulative SIMATIC PCS 7
OS volume licenses.
The OS standard software for a redundant pair of OS servers
or two redundant OS single stations is combined in a package
(SIMATIC PCS 7 OS Software Server Redundancy or SIMATIC
PCS 7 OS Software Single Station Redundancy). See "OS redun-
dancy" for details.
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Subsequent conversion of the software license from
OS Single Station to OS Server
It frequently happens in practice that systems based on
OS single stations are later expanded to client-server configura-
tions. The SIMATIC PCS 7 OS Software ConversionPack Single
Station to Server allows you to subsequently convert the soft-
ware license of your existing OS single station to an OS server
license.
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Function
OS process control with freely-positionable windows
Graphical user interface (GUI)
The predefined user interface of the operator system has all the
features typical of a control system. It is multilingual, clearly
structured, ergonomic and easy to understand. Operators can
survey the process extremely easily, and rapidly navigate be-
tween different views of the plant. The system supports them in
this process with hierarchical display structures that can be con-
figured as required. These facilitate the direct selection of lower-
level areas during process control. The current position within
the hierarchy can always be recognized in a window of the Pic-
ture Tree Manager.
Process displays and process tags can also be called directly
by their name, or by a "Loop-in-alarm" starting from a selected
message An online language selector permits the user to
change the display language during runtime.
The project editor in the operator system offers a wide range of
different image formats and resolutions for displaying process
graphics:
Their use depends on how the graphics controller of the opera-
tor station and the process monitors controlled by it are de-
signed.
The representative functional display of the plant is supported
by a high-quality, modern design. The global appearance can
be set using predefined or user-specific designs: color palette,
colors, styles (fill patterns), optical effects (2D/3D, shading,
transparency, colored identification of an image object when se-
lected, etc.). These can be changed locally for each image ob-
ject.
The design is also defined using a wide range of attractive ele-
ments provided by the Graphics Designer during configuration
in the engineering system.
Process tag browser
The SIMATIC PCS 7 process tag browser enables status infor-
mation from APL-based process tags to be displayed, filtered
and sorted. Process tags that have a certain status can then be
quickly identified and selected. The faceplate of a process tag
can be selected directly in the process image via the Loop In
function. The query results of the process tag browser can be
saved and printed out.
Graphic standard
Format
Resolution
Support of
multi-monitor
mode
XGA
4:3
1024 × 768
Yes
XGA+
4:3
1152 × 864
Yes
SXGA
5:4
1280 × 1024
Yes
UXGA
4:3
1600 × 1200
Yes
WSXGA+
16:10
1680 × 1050
Yes
HD 1080 (Full HD)
16:9
1920 × 1080
Yes
WUXGA
16:10
1920 × 1200
Yes
WQXGA
16:10
2560 × 1600
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