Solutions For Engineering Stations; Pcs 7 Project Engineering With Multiple Engineering Stations - Siemens PCS 7 Installation Manual

PC components of a PCS 7 system

3.5 Solutions for engineering stations

3.5 Solutions for engineering stations
3.5.1

PCS 7 project engineering with multiple engineering stations

Distributed engineering
You can distribute the engineering tasks for a PCS 7 plant over multiple engineering stations
(Distributed Engineering). PCS 7 provides the following options for this:
Option
Configuring in a multi‐
project
Branching and merg‐
ing charts from a
project
Configuring over a net‐
work
Example configuration for multiproject engineering
Additional information
The engineering procedure is described in detail in the configuration manual
System PCS 7; Engineering System.
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Application
You can use multiproject engineering to allow several project teams to work
on complex projects at the same time.
The engineering stations can be connected over a network or they can be
located in separate areas.
You can branch and merge the projects at the chart level (S7 program) to
allow several engineers to work at the same time.
Several engineers can work on specific parts of a project (for example, AS,
OS) stored on a central engineering server at the same time, working from
their networked engineering stations.
Process Control
PCS 7 - PC Configuration (V8.2)
Installation Manual, 03/2016, A5E36200050-AB