Siemens ST PCS 7 manual Maintenance station, Simatic MS/ES, 547B BCE/IE SRV03

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Asset Management

Maintenance station

■Overview ■Design

The maintenance engineer can process the diagnostics mes- sages and maintenance requests of the assets on the mainte- nance station. Via the maintenance station the engineer can ac- cess:

•Components of the process control system, e.g. intelligent field devices and I/O modules, fieldbus, controller, network components and plant bus as well as servers and clients of the operator systems

•Assets that do not belong directly to the process control sys- tem, such as pumps, motors, centrifuges, heat exchangers or control loops (passive or indirect assets). These are repre- sented by proxy objects in which the diagnostics rules are stored.

The maintenance station for PCS 7 asset management uses hardware and software components of the engineering system and operator system. As a result of the close interlacing, ES, OS and asset management functions execute on common hard- ware. Such a multi-functional station cannot only be used for as- set management, but also for system engineering or HMI.

The message system, user desktop, display hierarchy and oper- ator prompting are oriented according to the HMI philosophy of the operator system. The diagnostics data of all assets are dis- played on uniform faceplates whose contents depend on the in- telligence of the respective component. This means that working with the maintenance station is simple and intuitive – complex fa- miliarization is not required.

The diagnostics displays structured according to the plant hier- archy with the operating states of all PCS 7 components can be displayed on the maintenance station and also on an OS client. However, enhanced online diagnostics functions in conjunction with HW-Config or SIMATIC PDM can only be called from the maintenance station.

The user management and access control for the maintenance station accept the SIMATIC Logon integrated in SIMATIC PCS 7.

Depending on the architecture of the SIMATIC PCS 7 plant, the maintenance station can be implemented based on a SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX RTX/416, PCS 7 single station or client/server com- bination.

The following table shows possible hardware/software configu- rations of the maintenance station (MS).

Required SIMATIC PCS 7	SIMATIC	SIMATIC	MS/ES	MS
hardware/software	PCS 7	PCS 7	client	server
	BOX	ES
	RTX/416	single
		station
Basic hardware
SIMATIC PCS 7	n
BOX RTX/416 all-in-one
system (Windows XP
operating system)
SIMATIC PCS 7 ES/OS 547B		n	n
BCE/IE WXP (Windows XP
operating system)
SIMATIC PCS 7 OS Server				n
547B BCE/IE SRV03

(Windows Server 2003 operating system)

Required SIMATIC PCS 7 software corresponding to operating

system or basic hardware8 (without taking into account the quantity frameworks)

SIMATIC PCS 7 Engineering		n	n
Software V7.0 AS/OS
SIMATIC PDM PCS 7 V6.0	n	n	n
SP2 HF1 or higher
SIMATIC PCS 7 OS Software				n
Server V7.0
SIMATIC PCS 7 OS Software			n
Client V7.0
SIMATIC PCS 7 Asset	n	n	n
Engineering V7.0
SIMATIC PCS 7 Asset	n	n		n
Runtime V7.0
(basic package and
additional asset TAGs)

Two MS servers can also be operated as a redundant pair of servers. The redundant MS servers must be configured like re- dundant OS servers and expanded by the SIMATIC PCS 7 Asset Runtime software.

The SIMATIC PCS 7 Asset Runtime basic package already con- tains 100 asset TAGs. These can be expanded by cumulative SIMATIC PCS 7 Asset Runtime licenses for 10, 100 or

1000 asset TAGs (Count Relevant Licenses).

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