Foreword
1.1 Overview
Position in the information landscape
The documentation for the Panel PC includes the following sections:
•SIMATIC Panel PC 877, Operating Instructions (compact) with the following information:
–Commissioning
–Legal information
•SIMATIC Panel PC 877, Operating Instructions
The documentation is supplied with the Panel PC in electronic form as a PDF file on the "Documentation and Drivers" CD. The documentation is available in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
Additional information about the Windows operating system is available on the Internet at the Microsoft homepage at http://www.Microsoft.com.
Conventions
The following text notation will facilitate reading this manual:
Representation | Validity |
"File" | • Terminology that occurs in the user interface, e.g., dialog |
| names, tabs, buttons, menu commands |
| • Required parameters such as limit values, tag values |
| • Path information |
"File > Edit" | Operational sequences, e.g., menu commands/shortcut menu |
| commands. |
<F1>, <Shift>+<F1> | Keys and key combinations |
The term "Panel PC 877", "control unit" and "computer unit" is uniformly referred to as the "device" in these operating instructions. The full term is only used when a concrete reference is necessary.
Note
A note is important information about the product, handling the product or a reference to specific sections of the documentation that require special consideration.
Trademarks
All names labeled with ® symbol are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. Other names used in this documentation may be trademarks, the use of which by third parties for their own purposes could violate the rights of the owner.
HMI®
SIMATIC®
SIMATIC HMI®
SIMATIC WinCC®
SIMATIC WinCC flexible®
Panel PC 877®
SIMATIC Panel PC 877 | |
Operating instructions, Release 07/2006, |
