Tips On Configuration - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Configuration Manual

Integrated asset management
12.1 Configurations with Maintenance Station
Decision support
1. MS server on an existing OS server:
– Plants with 1-2 OS servers
– The OS server must be sufficiently scaled for licenses and performance. Buffers for later
– The benefit with this option: There is no additional computer required.
– Furthermore only maintenance licenses are required and no additional OS server
2. MS server as separate computer:
– Plant with three or more servers
– The benefit with this option: Clear assignment for the MS servers to the "diagnostics
– More transparent handling: When the MS server is loaded, for example, this has no
– High flexibility due to separation, such as for upgrading the plant
12.1.4

Tips on configuration

General settings in the multiproject
The following chart shows the settings which must be checked and adapted where necessary
for monitoring the components with the maintenance station:
Setting
Regional language and
Language for display devices
AS station name (1)
Designation of components (1)
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expansions must also be figured in.
licenses.
area" and not to plant areas
effect on the plant areas, which always have to be available to the operator.
Location
SIMATIC Manager
SIMATIC Manager
HW Config
Compendium Part A - Configuration Guidelines (V8.2)
Configuration Manual, 08/2016, A5E38166869-AA
Comment
● Set a language in which the
OS project is to be operated
in process control.
● <=14 characters
● No spaces