Example of a SIMATIC PCS 7 plant with a stand-alone SIMATIC PCS 7 Management Console

The SIMATIC PCS 7 Management Console enables you to manage either individual SIMATIC PCS 7 plants or multiple plants of a SIMATIC PCS 7 plant network.

For small and medium-sized SIMATIC PCS 7 plants, the SIMATIC PCS 7 Management Console can be installed and operated on a PCS 7 engineering station.

However, a stand-alone SIMATIC PCS 7 Management Console is typically used for medium-sized and large SIMATIC PCS 7 plant networks. For the single station or server versions of SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstation that are a suitable as the basic hardware for such a dedicated SIMATIC PCS 7 Management Console, see "SIMATIC Rack PC" in the section "Industrial Workstation/IPC".

A License Management Console agent is required for each SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstation managed by the Management Console. The Management Console agents are available in cumulative sets with 10, 50 and 100 licenses.

The secure authentication of communication between the SIMATIC PCS 7 Management Console and the Management Console agents is ensured by the Kerberos protocol.