Data exchange between SIMATIC PCS 7 Plant Automation Accelerator and SIMATIC PCS 7

Performance in engineering

With regard to planning and engineering, performance can be equated with minimizing time and costs. "Integrated Engineering" offers an unique approach here: an integrated planning workflow from the description of the process to the automation program.

Using the SIMATIC PCS 7 Plant Automation Accelerator (PAA), both engineers and planning offices and end customers can significantly reduce their configuration and commissioning costs while simultaneously improving the quality of engineering.

PAA expands the functionality for plant configuration and documentation. To improve efficiency in plant engineering, the PAA provides support generating offesr with a plant topology plan and the bills of materials to the automatic generation of SIMATIC PCS 7 data from electrical and function plans.

Plant topology plan

Bills of materials

Electrical planning

If electrical planning has been carried out with planning tools from other providers, this data can be imported in Microsoft Excel format using signal or process tag lists – as in the previous product, Advanced Engineering System (AdvES).

The PAA is thus the new extended product to replace the PCS 7 Advanced Engineering System. It provides the same functions but can also operate as a project processing and documentation tool.