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- High-performance operator stations based on versatile, rugged SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstations, optimized for use in industrial environments
- Flexible, modular architecture with scalable hardware and software components for
- Single-user system (OS single station) with up to 8 500 process objects
- Flat system configurations based on a redundant OS Single Station pair, expandable with reference stations to up to 8 OS Single Stations.
- Client/server multi-user systems with up to 18 OS servers/pairs of servers for every 12 000 process objects (PO) and up to 40 OS clients
- High-performance archiving system based on Microsoft SQL Server with short-term archives and integrated archive backup, can be optionally expanded for long-term archiving with the Process Historian
- Self-diagnostics of important OS server applications
- Integration of modifications without interrupting runtime operations, and online testing through selective loading of redundant servers
- Optimized AS/OS communication:
data transmission only following change in data, independent of AS reply cycle; suppression of nuisance alarms - User-friendly process control and high operational reliability with support of multi-screen technology
- Extended status displays through combination of status/analog values with alarm information
- Highly effective alarm management provides support for operating personnel
- Assignment of priorities with up to 16 message priorities as additional attribute to the message classes
- Visual and audible suppression of messages which are irrelevant to a specific operating state (dynamic or manual)
- Suppression of sensor/actuator alarms during startup or in event of malfunction
- Centralized user administration with access control and electronic signature
- Sign-of-life monitoring for subordinate systems connected to the plant bus
- System-wide time synchronization based on UTC (Universal Time Coordinated)
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