Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Service Manual page 91

We particularly recommend the use of a Maintenance Station in medium and large PCS 7
systems.
Maintenance Station
With the Maintenance Station, PCS 7 enables you to call up information on the states of all
PCS 7 components on diagnostics screens which are hierarchically structured. As part of this
process, the data of a component are analyzed using the available online functions of the
associated tools. You can access ES data from the diagnostics screens (can be controlled via
access protection mechanisms).
Screens for process-control diagnostics can be generated automatically for the entire PCS 7
system and made available on the Maintenance Station. The top level forms an overview
screen for the entire system.
Note
Disabling lifebeat monitoring
If you are running a Maintenance Station in the plant, the sign-of-life with "Lifebeat Monitoring"
must be disabled.
Service Support and Diagnostics (V8.2)
Service Manual, 03/2016, A5E36200111-AA
8.2 Diagnostics with the maintenance station (asset management)
Diagnostics in PCS 7
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