Data management of a SIMATIC PCS 7 plant with versiondog

Siemens Solution Partner AUVESY GmbH & Co. KG (AUtomated VErsioning SYstems) offers "versiondog", a high-performance software and data management system, which can be seamlessly integrated in to any SIMATIC PCS 7 architecture as a SIMATIC PCS 7 add-on product.

versiondog ensures data transparency and project security, helps to avoid risks and reduce overhead. It meets the requirements for information security of aspects such as data confidentiality, data integrity, data availability and data authenticity.

The operator of a SIMATIC PCS 7 plant can versiondog to develop strategy for data management and thus operate more efficiently and far-sighted. With a cyclic backup, there is a check to determine whether the SIMATIC PCS 7 project currently being used corresponds to the validated software version. Cyber attacks can also be identified by comparing online and offline data.

Since failures of a plant usually cannot be predicted, versiondog keeps a fresh backup of SIMATIC PCS 7 project as a backup strategy in case of trouble (Disaster Recovery). This data backup is continually updated and versioned, i.e. the previous version is replaced by a new version after changes (adaptations or improvements) are made.

Audits of SIMATIC PCS 7 systems and associated automation components are optimally supported by the version control and change documentation from versiondog (reports and automatic audit trail included). SFC and CFC standard library management provides a reference for SFCs/CFCs and blocks originating from libraries.

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The software and data management system, versiondog, can be used together with SIMATIC PCS 7 V7.1, V8.0, V8.1 and V8.2.