Siemens SCADA software

Siemens has expanded the functionality of its SCADA system SIMATIC WinCC with version 7.0. The scalable SCADA system now offers compatibility with Windows Vista, easy language switching, high-performance analysis functions and an integrated MS SQL Server archive historian database as standard. In the core packages, the power tags have been doubled from 256 to 512 and from 1024 to 2048 from the previous version.

New WinCC objects for operable elements, which have been adapted to the Windows Vista design, provide the plant personnel with optical responses about possible or required inputs. Such elements are, for example, animated GIFs or displays highlighted by hover and glass effects. With the hover effect, operable fields change colour when they are touched by the cursor. With the glass effect, the fields can be displayed semi-transparently.

In the alarm and trend display, the controls were completely revised and functionally adapted. They are available in the previous classic version and now also in the new display, which is based on Windows Vista. A new feature allows the user to create individual buttons and to run the export function from every control. The user now configures the selections for display of alarms and trends online according to variably specifiable criteria. The calculation of an integral under a trend is a further example of a newly integrated function.