A plant can be operated and monitored via PCS 7 Web clients in the same manner as via the OS clients. SFC Visualization is supported in addition to the standard OS functions.

The process pictures are displayed on the PCS 7 Web clients with Internet Explorer. The PCS 7 Web clients access the project data provided by the PCS 7 Web server via an intranet or the Internet.

All web publishing contents of a SIMATIC PCS 7 project can be defined and managed in a central configuration dialog. This provides customized, project-specific setting options for each PCS 7 Web server. The configuration created with this dialog can be immediately published or stored for later use. Trend displays can also be configured online.

The operator must log onto the PCS 7 Web client in the same way as for an OS client. The rules for assignment of rights are also identical. Operator actions on the PCS 7 Web client are recorded in the OS operator activities report. If the operator does not have write access on the PCS 7 Web client, a special customizable mouse pointer that cannot trigger an operator input is available to the operator for the display. The settings for this mouse pointer are retained following an upgrade.