Data flow when using the Advanced Engineering System

Using the Advanced Engineering System (AdvES), consulting engineers and planning offices as well as end customers can significantly reduce their configuration and commissioning costs while simultaneously improving the engineering quality.

The SIMATIC PCS 7 Advanced Engineering System (AdvES) expands the functionality for plant configuration and can be started from a SIMATIC PCS 7 project in SIMATIC Manager. It acts as a link between

• Tools for basic and detailed planning, e.g. EPlan, ELCAD or SmartPlant, and
• Standard engineering tools from the SIMATIC PCS 7 engineering toolset, e.g. CFC, HW Config, plant hierarchy.

AdvES uses various data import options in order to collect existing engineering data from the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system and from process tag and signal lists in Microsoft Excel format and to prepare these for utilization in the SIMATIC PCS 7 engineering system.