Integration into automation systems

Integration into the SIMATIC Totally Integrated Automation Portal (TIA Portal)

• Shared data management and uniform symbols via the controller and HMI
• Optimum interaction between the controller and HMI in a working environment
• System diagnostics as an integral component
• Shared use of communication settings and process point definitions
• Simple dragging and dropping of tags from STEP 7 to an HMI device, e.g. onto a screen
• Excellent support for the new SIMATIC S7-1500 controllers
  • With symbolic addressing
  • Access to the new memory-optimized data blocks
  • New alarm and diagnostics concept

Configuration interface

• Intuitive user interfaces with maximum degree of user friendliness
• Comprehensive and fast access to editors and project data
• Adaptive user interface of engineering tools depending on configured target system
• User-definable user interface settings, e.g. layout, toolbars
• Integrated mass data operations for efficient configuration

Project handling

• Device-independent configuration data can be used on a variety of target systems without the need for conversion. The interface adapts itself to the functional possibilities of the target device.
• Cross-device utilization of common configuration data (e.g. alarm classes, text library) in multi-device projects
• Wizard-assisted definition of basic structure of HMI projects (e.g. display layout, operator prompting)

Screen editor with comprehensive options for efficient and fast screen configuration

• Generation of interconnected screen objects via Drag&Drop, e.g. tags for the creation of input/output fields with process interfacing or buttons with screen selection function
• Definition of screen templates and functions (comparable with the Slide Master in MS PowerPoint)
• User-friendly editor for the creation of faceplates with defined external interface from screen objects
• Graphics-based configuration of motion paths
• Layer technology with up to 32 layers
• Tools for the Align, Rotate and Mirror functions

Import/export

• of tags, links, text lists, and alarms

Tabular editors

• Quick and easy generation and modification of configuration objects of the same type, e.g. tags, texts or messages, in tabular editors
• Intelligent default settings depending on previously configured data, e.g. automatic incrementing of addresses when generating consecutive tags
• Simple access to the properties of an object without superfluous user intervention
• Simultaneous modification of common object properties

Object-based data management with user-friendly search and edit options

• Configuration of alarms and logs directly on the HMI tag, no switching between different editors
• Cross-reference list with direct access to all objects, e.g. for editing or selection
• Search for objects in entire project
• Text search and replace functions

Project documentation

• Selective project documentation, the following contents can be printed:
  
  • An entire project
  • One or more project-associated devices
  • Contents of an editor
  • Libraries

Libraries for predefined/user-defined configuration objects

• Storage of all configuration objects in the library, e.g. blocks and even entire screens or tags
• Faceplates can be constructed from simple screen objects on a customer-specific or project-specific basis. Changes to these faceplates can be made centrally (block definition).
• A large number of scalable and dynamizable screen objects is included in the scope of delivery
• Size-scalable graphics for industrial applications are included in the scope of delivery
• Preview function for library objects

Language support

• Multilingual project creation (max. 32 languages) in editors thanks to selectable views
• Central management of language-specific texts and graphics in libraries
• Edit, export and import of texts for translation
• Language-specific graphics

Visual Basic and C-Script Support

• IntelliSense function for fast programming of access to runtime objects
• Simple creation of control sequences in script code
• Visual Basic Script debugging in simulator and WinCC Runtime Advanced and WinCC Runtime Professional

Test and commissioning support

• Simulation of HMI projects on engineering PC
• Marking of incomplete or incorrect configuration directly in the respective editor
• Jump to error cause based on alarm messages in the Compiler

Migration of existing HMI projects

• Data transfer in projects from WinCC flexible
• Data transfer in projects from WinCC

System prerequisites

Note:

Opening several instances of WinCC on your engineering PC at the same time may result in more demanding hardware requirements.

In addition to WinCC, Windows also requires space on the hard disk; e.g. free disk space should be available for the swap file. The following formula has proven itself in the past: Size of swap file = 3 x size of RAM. For further information, refer to your Windows documentation