Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Function Manual page 12

Preface
Guide
This manual is organized into the following topics:
● Basics of fault-tolerance in PCS 7
● Description of fault-tolerant solutions in PCS 7
● Description of configurations for various redundant components in PCS 7
● Failure scenarios and diagnostic options
● Options for quantitative analysis of fault-tolerant process control systems
● Glossary with important terms for understanding this documentation
● Index of important keywords
Conventions
In this documentation, the names of elements in the software interface are specified in the
language of this documentation. If you have installed a multi-language package for the
operating system, some of the designations will be displayed in the base language of the
operating system after a language switch and will, therefore, differ from the designations used
in the documentation.
Changes compared to the previous version
Below you will find an overview of the most important changes in the documentation compared
to the previous version:
● Using the redundant, fault-tolerant terminal bus
You can find information on this in the section "Solutions for the terminal bus (Page 51)"
● Using the Process Historian and Information Server for central archiving
– For additional information on this topic, refer to the
– Migration of the central archive server (CAS) to Process Historian
● Using a fault-tolerant fieldbus based on PROFINET
You can find information on this in the section "Fault-tolerant fieldbus based on
PROFINET (Page 70)"
● Using the redundant FOUNDATION Fieldbus
You can find information about this in the "Fault-tolerant FOUNDATION Fieldbus
(Page 80)" section
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Historian documentation.
You can find additional information on this in the "WinCC Classic Information System".
SIMATIC HMI; SIMATIC Process
Fault-tolerant Process Control Systems (V8.1)
Function Manual, 11/2014, A5E34878832-AA