Siemens ST PCS 7 Route Control Hardware, Requirements for selection of the automation systems

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SIMATIC Route Control

Route Control Hardware

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SIMATIC Route Control clients and OS clients	Engineering
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OS-LAN

Route Control	OS server
server

Plant bus

Automation

systems

The modularity and flexibility of SIMATIC Route Control are opti- mally supported by the hardware available. The basic hardware from page 2/14 can be used for SIMATIC Route Control.

Hardware for small plants

For small plants, SIMATIC Route Control can be installed either alone or together with the OS software on a single station system or a SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX 416. You can select the hardware for the OS/RC single station at page 2/14, page 5/6, or further down in this section. You can find information and the ordering data for the SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX 416 at page 3/8.

The CP 1613 communication integrated in the IE version of the SIMATIC PCS 7 Workstation for single stations and servers is a combination of CP 1613 communications processor and

S7-1613 communications software. When using fault-tolerant automation systems, the SIMATIC PCS 7 Workstation requires the S7-REDCONNECT software instead of the S7-1613 commu- nications software. The S7-REDCONNECT Upgrade is suitable for upgrading the communications software (for ordering data, see page 9/28).

Redundancy

RC Server redundancy is supported by the SIMATIC Route Con- trol Server software. Further software components or a separate connection between the two servers as is the case with the OS server redundancy or batch server redundancy are not re- quired.

With the assistance of the SIMATIC Route Control Server soft- ware, the two redundant RC servers carry out mutual monitoring during operation. If the active RC server fails, the redundant partner immediately becomes the master and takes over opera- tion. The RC clients are automatically switched over to the new master in this case. Following return of the failed RC server, data matching is carried out with the active RC server, and the latter remains the master.

For information and components for the redundant bus connec- tion (plant bus and terminal bus), see page 9/28.

Expansion options

The basic hardware (PC basic unit) is expandable with the fol- lowing options according to the customer’s particular require- ments and whether the hardware is used as RC Single Station, RC Server or Batch Client:

• Multi-VGA graphics card for connection of up to 4 monitors

Client/server configuration

Distributed multi-user systems with client/server architecture, expandable with up to 32 clients per server, are typical for the automation of material transports with SIMATIC Route Control. Basically it is possible to operate an RC Server, Batch Server and OS Server on shared basic hardware. However, availability will be higher and performance better if each component has its own server hardware. The availability of the RC Server can be further increased through redundant configuration of the server hardware. SIMATIC PCS 7 supports multiple-station systems with up to 12 servers/server pairs.

The Route Control Client is represented by the Route Control Center (RCC). The RCC can be installed on an OS Client, a Batch Client or separate client hardware.

• Process monitors (see page 2/17)

The Multi-VGA graphics cards "2 Screens" and "4 Screens" are offered for multichannel operation of an OS/RC Single Station or a client with 2 up to 4 process monitors. Views distributed over 2 or as many as 4 process monitors by means of a graphics card can be controlled using one keyboard and one mouse. The Multi-VGA graphics cards are compliant with EN 55022 and EN 50082 standards. Each card occupies one PCI slot in the op- erator station.

Note:

Since all messages from SIMATIC Route Control are processed in the operator system’s message system, it is not necessary to use a signal module.

RC server and OS/RC single stations can be connected to the Industrial Ethernet plant bus via a CP 1613 A2 communications processor or via a simple FastEthernet network card with BCE (suitable for communication with up to 8 automation systems; not H systems).

Requirements for selection of the automation systems

SIMATIC Route Control can operate together with the WinAC Slot 416 controller of the SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX 416 (up to

30simultaneous material transports) and with the following auto- mation systems of the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system:

•AS 416-3 (up to 30 simultaneous material transports)

•AS 417-4

•AS 417H

Safety-related automation systems, e.g. AS 417F/FH, cannot be used to control material transport with SIMATIC Route Control.

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Siemens ST PCS 7 · November 2007