Siemens SIMATIC OpenPCS 7 User Manual

Table of contents
1 Preface.........................................................................................................................................................7
2 Basics...........................................................................................................................................................9
2.1 General..........................................................................................................................................9
2.2 Microsoft basics...........................................................................................................................10
2.3 OPC Foundation..........................................................................................................................11
2.4 Components of OpenPCS 7........................................................................................................12
2.5 OLE DB interface.........................................................................................................................14
2.6 COM / DCOM components of OpenPCS 7.................................................................................14
3 Installation and licensing.............................................................................................................................17
3.1 Hardware requirements...............................................................................................................17
3.2 Installing the OpenPCS 7 station.................................................................................................17
3.3 Licensing of the OpenPCS 7 station............................................................................................19
3.4 Licensing the OS-internal OPC server........................................................................................20
4 PCS 7 Engineering.....................................................................................................................................23
4.1 Configuring an OpenPCS 7 station.............................................................................................23
4.2 OpenPCS 7 and OS application on a shared PC station............................................................24
4.3 Configuring an OPC client...........................................................................................................25
4.4 Loading the OpenPCS 7 station..................................................................................................26
4.5 Configuration support with the PCS 7 project wizard..................................................................27
5 System configurations................................................................................................................................31
5.1 General configuration..................................................................................................................31
5.2 OpenPCS 7 without OS...............................................................................................................33
5.3 OpenPCS 7 combined with an OS..............................................................................................34
5.3.1 OpenPCS 7 combined with an OS client.....................................................................................34
5.3.2 OpenPCS 7 combined with an OS server or CAS.......................................................................35
5.3.3 OpenPCS 7 combined with an OS single station........................................................................36
5.4 OpenPCS 7 station for multiple PCS 7 projects..........................................................................38
5.5 DA linking of two PCS 7 projects using OpenPCS 7...................................................................39
5.6 Access to a CAS via OpenPCS 7................................................................................................40
5.7 OpenPCS 7 security concept......................................................................................................41
5.8 Settings in the Windows Firewall for Open PCS 7......................................................................42
5.9 Users and passwords in a workgroup.........................................................................................43
OpenPCS 7
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Siemens SIMATIC OpenPCS 7 Specifications

General

Brand	Siemens
Model	SIMATIC OpenPCS 7
Category	Control Systems
Language	English