Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Service Manual page 12

Preface
Documentation
Manual
OpenPCS 7
Function manual
tem PCS 7; Fault-tolerant Process Con‐
trol Systems
SIMATIC manual
Systems
SIMATIC S7 F Systems
Required basic knowledge
General knowledge in the area of automation engineering and basic knowledge of PCS 7 is
required to understand this documentation. You also need to know how to use PCs with
Windows operating systems.
The following documentation provides basic information on working with PCS 7:
● Configuration manual
● Configuration manual
● Getting Started
Software update up to PCS 7 V7.1 SP4
All projects up to PCS 7 V7.1 SP4 are updated in several steps. You will receive the necessary
instructions with the associated software packages.
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 with previous versions
Below, you will find an overview of the most important changes compared with previous
versions:
As of PCS 7 V8.2
● Updating block icons containing user customizations.
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Process Control System PCS 7;
Process Control Sys‐
S7 F/FH Automation
Process Control System PCS 7; Engineering System
Process Control System PCS 7; Operator Station
Process Control System PCS 7; Part 1
Contents
Describes how an OPC A&E server with hierarchical access
is used in PCS 7 systems
Describes the principles of use of fault-tolerant (redundant)
components in SIMATIC PCS 7.
Describes the configuration and programming of S7 F/FH
failsafe systems using S7 F systems.
Contains important information which must be taken into ac‐
count when installing and using the S7 F system optional
package in PCS 7.
Software update without utilization of new functions
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