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13.6 Drive ES
SIMATIC WinCC flexible
SIMATIC WinCC flexible is the innovative HMI software under Windows 7 for all applications
in the machine-related area. The engineering software enables the uniform configuration of
all Windows-based SIMATIC HMI operator panels.
WinCC flexible Runtime provides basic HMI functionality on PCs, including messaging and
logging systems and can be expanded when required via options. The runtime functions
available on SIMATIC HMI operator panels depend on the device class.
The WinCC flexible engineering software can be integrated in the central programming
software of the SIMATIC world, SIMATIC STEP 7, and used for the configuration of all operator
panels. The engineering software of SIMATIC HMI also accesses variable lists and message
lists of the controller and uses their communication parameters.
OPC / OPC XML-DA / OPC UA
Open communications standard for automation components. The goal of the standard is to
ensure a problem-free and standardized data exchange between controllers, operator control
and monitoring systems, field devices and office applications from different manufacturers.
The abbreviation OPC previously meant "OLE for Process Control", because the
implementation was based on Microsoft's COM/DCOM technology.
Nowadays, one uses the term "Openness, Productivity and Collaboration". Today, a number
of standards defined by the OPC Foundation have evolved. The OPC Foundation is a grouping
of many manufacturers from the automation technology area.
SIMOTION supports the OPC DA (Data Access) and OPC AE (Alarm & Event) standards with
the SIMATIC NET Softnet package. This is based on the Windows COM technology.
SIMOTION also supports OPC XML-DA (Data Access based on XML). The OPC server is
located in the SIMOTION device and is accessed from a partner station no longer using COM
mechanisms but with Web services and their XML-coded function calls. This makes the partner
stations independent of hardware and operating systems.
The client application on the partner station works with the symbolic SIMOTION variable
names. There is no dependency on the SIMOTION SCOUT database, which means that no
consistency problems arise, even when there is a switch in versions.
OPC UA (Unified Architecture) is a standardized, industrial communication protocol for access
to control data, e.g. by control systems. OPC UA Data Access permits the reading and writing
of SIMOTION variables.
13.6
Drive ES
Drive ES engineering system
Drive ES is the engineering system used to integrate Siemens drive technology into the
SIMATIC automation world easily, efficiently and cost-effectively in terms of communication,
configuration and data management. The STEP 7 Manager user interface provides the basis.
Drive ES Basic is the basic software for the parameterization of all drives, online and offline.
With the Drive ES Basic software, the automation and the drives are edited on the user interface
of the SIMATIC Manager. Drive ES Basic is the starting point for common data archiving from
complete projects and for extending the use of the routing and SIMATIC teleservice to drives.
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