The engineering system of the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system is based on the high-performance SIMATIC PCS7 Industrial Workstation, which can be used either in office applications or in industrial environments.

The engineering software run on this hardware can be optimally matched to different customer requirements and tasks. The basic functionality defined by the standard engineering software can be optionally expanded depending on the project-specific task and its implementation.

The software licenses provided for the engineering system can be used to configure two system variants for different applications areas:

• Classic, dedicated engineering station
  allows in addition to engineering a 2-hour OS test mode, but no productive operation as an operator station
• Combined engineering/operator station for small applications
  allows in addition to engineering also process control for small plants in productive operation