What's New In Simatic Pcs 7 V8.0 Compared To V7.1 - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 System Manual

What's new in SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.0 compared to
V7.1?
The following paragraphs provide an overview of the most important functional enhancements
and expansions in SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.0 compared to SIMATIC PCS 7 as of V7.1.
Overview of highlights
● Operating system
Engineering Station
● SIMATIC PCS 7 Maintenance Station
● Support of PROFINET as fieldbus
● Redundant, fault-tolerant terminal bus
● Cyclic archiving of projects and readback of block parameters
Process Historian/Information Server
The new Process Historian with Reporting System is introduced with SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.0.
SIMATIC PCS 7 Advanced Engineering (AdvES)
Advanced ES V8.0 is also available for SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.0 with the following highlights:
● Workflow Guide for a guided engineering process
● Definition of variants for the control modules to reduce the number of templates
● Bulk engineering for PCS 7 alarms
What's new in SIMATIC PCS 7 (V8.0)?
System Manual, 12/2011, A5E02779862-01
SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.0 runs on the following operating systems:
– For engineering station, single-station system and OS client:
- Windows 7 Ultimate/Enterprise SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
- Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit)
– For engineering station, single-station system and OS server:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit)
- Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit)
The Maintenance Station provides information on the status of all SIMATIC PCS 7
components in hierarchically structured diagnostics screens.
The maintenance station can be configured as a single-station or multiple-station system.
The PROFINET fieldbus system enables the connection of existing field devices from
PROFIBUS DP and PROFIBUS PA and distributed I/Os.
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