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SIMATIC WinCC exible 

Flexibility in every HMI Application – 

from Micro Panels to PCs 

WinCC exible zeichnet sich durch 

folgende Highlights aus: 

• Flexibel einsetzbar 

Maschinen- und prozessnah 

Auf Panels und PCs 

Weltweit (mehrsprachig) 

• Innovative HMI-Konzepte 

Verteilte Bedienstationen 

Lokale Stationen mit zentralem 

Zugriff 

Kleine Wartenlösungen 

Anlagenweiter Informations- 

uss 

• Service & Diagnose über das 

Web 

Remote-Diagnose und -Download 

Automatischer E-Mail- 

Versand 

• Offen und einfach erweiterbar 

VBScript an Bord 

Einbindung von 

ActiveX-Controls 

Datenaustausch über OPC DA 

Integrierbar in TCP-/IP-Netzwerke 

Optionspakete 

• Höchste Projektierungsefzienz 

Intelligente Werkzeuge 

Wieder verwendbare Bildbausteine 

Mehrsprachige Projektierungen 

• Durchgängig projektierbar 

Mit einer Engineeringsoftware 

Skalierbar für unterschiedliche 

HMI-Plattformen 

• Part of TIA 

simatic hmi 

Integrierbar in SIMATIC STEP 7, 

SIMATIC iMap und SIMOTION 

• Investitions- und 

zukunftssicher 

WinCC exible 

Overview


Highlights 

SIMATIC® WinCC® exible represents innovative HMI® software 

under Windows for all machine-level applications. 

WinCC exible allows you to carry out consistent conguration 

of all Windows-based SIMATIC HMI operator control 

and monitoring devices ranging from the smallest Micro 

Panel up to PC based solutions. 

WinCC exible Runtime offers a cost-effective solution for 

basic operating & monitoring functions, including an alarm 

and logging system and expansion via options on an asrequired 

basis. The runtime functions that are available 

on SIMATIC HMI operator control and monitoring devices 

depend on the device class. 

HIGHLIGHTS 

• Implement on a exible basis 

Provide operator access close to the process and/or 

machine level 

For applications on panels and PCs 

(using a single software solution) 

Connectivity to a wide variety of automation solutions 

Worldwide deployment (multiple languages available) 

• Highest conguration efciency 

Convenient user interface 

Libraries, reusable faceplates 

Intelligent tools 

Multilingual congurations 

Importing tag lists in Excel format 

Text import/export in Excel format (Unicode) 

• Innovative HMI concepts 

Plant-wide access to tags and screens 

Distributed HMI stations 

Local control room solutions 

Link to the Ofce world 

• Web enabled Service and Diagnostics 

Automatic e-mail dispatch 

Remote control of HMI stations 

Remote diagnostics and download 

• Ready for Validation 

Validation support in engineering and at runtime 

Tracking of manufacturer processes by means of 

Audit Trails 

• Part of Totally Integrated Automation 

Can be integrated within SIMATIC STEP 7, 

SIMATIC iMap and SIMOTION 

• Leverage prior Siemens investment 

while implementing new technologies 

Use existing ProTool conguration data 

Implement on a exible basis 

WinCC exible is ideal for use as the HMI software in all 

applications in which operator control and monitoring 

is required on site – whether in production and process 

automation. WinCC exible is designed for use in all industries, 

and offers a single software solution for SIMATIC HMI 

operator control and monitoring devices from the smallest 

Micro Panel up to PCs under Windows 2000 / XP (engineering 

software and PC runtime software). You can transfer 

projects to different HMI platforms without needing to convert 

the projects. 

Connectivity to SIMATIC S7 via PPI, MPI, PROFIBUS-DP and 

Industrial Ethernet, link to SINUMERIK 810D / 840D / 840Di, 

drivers for controllers made by leading manufacturers and 

via OPC, ensure that you always have the right connection 

for a wide variety of automation solutions. 

Multilingual engineering software that can be switched 

at the push of a button; the option of creating projects 

with up to 32 languages at the same time - up to 16 

of which (device-depending) you can switch online at the 

same time are excellent reasons for using WinCC exible 

on a worldwide basis. Coupled with web-based service 

concepts, OEMs and large multinational companies can 

promote their business globally. 

Highest conguration efciency 

The WinCC exible engineering software is based on the 

latest software technologies; it is available in ve languages 

(plus four Asian ones included in the ASIA version) and has 

a simple user interface that offers conguring engineers: 

• Libraries with ready-made objects and reusable faceplates 

• Intelligent tools to easily create projects, for graphic con- 

guring of a screen hierarchy and of motion paths, as well 

as for conguring bulk data 

• Support for multilingual engineering with automated 

text translation and text export and import function 

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Highlights 

Innovative HMI and automation concepts 

Using the WinCC exible/Sm@rtAccess option, operator 

stations have access to each others‘ tags and screens. 

This yields innovative TCP/IP communication-based 

concepts for the HMI and automation tasks that you have 

to solve: 

• Operator stations with plant-wide access to current 

process values and screens 

• Distributed operator stations for operating large, 

physically distributed machines 

• Local control room solutions with options for central 

archiving, analysis and further-processing of process data 

• Link to Ofce applications 

Web enabled Service and Diagnostics 

The WinCC exible/Sm@rtService option gives you new 

service concepts: 

• Event-driven sending of e-mail and text messages to 

the service staff 

• Remote control of on-site stations across the Web 

• Diagnosing operator stations using ready-made 

diagnostic functions and screens 

• Service and maintenance functions (downloading 

projects, downloading/uploading recipes) 

Ready for Validation 

WinCC exible‘s Audit und ChangeControl options offer 

high levels of support to mechanical and plant engineers 

that must meet strict quality requirements with regard both 

to the products to be manufactured and to the manufacturing 

process 

• User-friendly conguration of GMP-relevant functions 

(Good Manufacturing Practice) 

• Recording of operator inputs in Audit Trails with an electronic 

signature and comment for PCs and 270 Series 

Panels and above 

• Versioning and change tracking of projects 

• Easy fulllment of the legal requirements for traceability 

according to EU 178/2002 and 21 CFR Part 11 

Part of Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) 

TIA, with its triple consistency in conguration/ 

programming, data storage and communication, makes it 

possible to use WinCC exible to reduce engineering and 

lifecycle costs. TIA is also the basis of integrated system 

and process diagnostics. 

Apart from this, you can integrate WinCC exible within 

the scope of TIA in different engineering worlds (SIMATIC 

Step 7, SIMATIC iMap and SIMOTION Scout); this means that 

it supports integrated, reduced engineering congurations. 

Leverage prior Siemens investment 

while implementing new technologies 

Compatible application of complete ProTool projects 

for Windows-based devices means that you can use all 

your previous engineering effort with WinCC exible, 

protecting prior investments. In a later expansion stage, 

this is also planned for projects of the SIMATIC WinCC 

process visualization system V6. 

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Overview of the Product Range 

SIMATIC HMI 

With SIMATIC HMI, Siemens Automation 

and Drives offers you a complete 

range for many different tasks in the 

eld of operation and monitoring – 

from a single source. From operator 

control and monitoring devices and 

visualization software for machinelevel 

HMI through scalable SCADA 

systems for a wide variety of different 

requirements in process visualization: 

We offer you a nely graduated range 

of innovative and economic products 

and systems. 


Engineering Software 

The WinCC exible product range 

includes innovative engineering tools 

for consistent conguration of all 

SIMATIC HMI operator control and 

monitoring devices as well as PC-based 

systems using WinCC exible Runtime. 

Apart from Text Panels, you can con- 

gure all the current HMI devices in 

the SIMATIC HMI product range as 

well as local PC single-user solutions 

using WinCC exible 2005. WinCC 

exible is available as several variants 

that are graduated on a price and 

performance basis that can extend 

one another and are tailor-made for 

individual classes of operator control 

and monitoring devices in an optimum 

way. In this context, the larger software 

package always includes the con- 

guration options of the smaller packages. 

• SIMATIC WinCC exible Micro 

Micro Panels: 

OP 73micro, TP 170/177micro 

• SIMATIC WinCC exible Compact 

Same as WinCC exible Micro plus 

70 Series Panels: 

OP 73, OP 77A, OP 77B 

 

 

170 Series Panels: 

TP/OP 170, Mobile Panel 170 

NEW: TP 177A, OP/TP 177B, Mobile 

Panel 177 

• SIMATIC WinCC exible Standard 

Same as WinCC exible Compact 

plus 

270 Series Panels: TP/OP 270 

270/370 Series Multi Panels: 

MP 270B, MP 370 

• SIMATIC WinCC exible Advanced 

Same as WinCC exible Standard 

plus Panel PCs and standard PCs 

SIMATIC WinCC exible Runtime 

Software 

With SIMATIC HMI operator control 

and monitoring devices, the runtime 

software is on-board and, depending 

on the equipment‘s hardware, this 

gives you different HMI functionality 

and performance proles. For PC plat- 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WinCC exible – Engineering software and target systems 

 

 

forms, WinCC exible Runtime can be used on a graduated 

basis through the use of PowerTags: 

• 128, 512 or 2048 PowerTags 

Only those variables with process connection to the controller 

count as PowerTags. Variables without a process link, 

constant limit values of variables as well as (up to 4000) 

messages are available with the core product. 

Powerpacks 

Powerpacks allow you to increase the number of useable 

PowerTags. As your application grows, so does WinCC 

exible. Start off with the smallest tag count and then add 

tags via Powerpacks as your requirements increase. Powerpacks 

also allow you to upgrade your engineering software 

to grow from an initial use of Panels and Multi Panels (in 

WinCC exible Standard) to full deployment of PC solutions 

(WinCC exible Advanced). 

Options 

You can obtain individual functional or vertical market 

extensions to the engineering and runtime software in 

the form of WinCC exible options. Some options are 

already integrated as standard functions in some operator 

panels; others are only available from specic device classes 

onwards. 

Software Updates 

You can download free of charge on the Internet Hardware 

Support Packages, which allow you to congure SIMATIC 

HMI devices that are new on the market, as well as 

Service Packs to remove bugs and faults in software. 

WinCC exible – Runtime options for Panels, Multi Panels 

and PCs 

If desired, you can use our Software Update Service, which 

automatically provides you with all the Upgrades and Service 

Packs that are released over a period of twelve months 

at a xed price per installed WinCC exible Engineering 

System or option. 

SIMATIC WinCC exible or SIMATIC WinCC? 

WinCC exible can be ideally deployed as HMI software 

in all applications close to machines and the process in 

plant, mechanical and serial mechanical engineering situations. 

The HMI devices that you can congure using WinCC 

exible range from Micro Panels, which are designed for 

applications with SIMATIC S7-200 controllers, up to local 

solutions with SIMATIC Panels, PCs and local control rooms 

with standard PCs. Even if concepts using Sm@rtClients 

and servers make possible plant-wide access to tags and 

pictures, distributed operator stations, local control rooms 

and remote control, they are, in principle, single-user solutions. 

The scalable SIMATIC WinCC process visualization 

system is available for more complex PC-based applications 

in the elds of plant and mechanical engineering. Version 

6 of WinCC offers complete SCADA functionality under 

Windows for all branches of industry ranging from single-user 

systems through to distributed multi-user systems 

with redundant servers and cross-site solutions using Web 

clients. With its integrated process database (Historian), 

WinCC is the information exchange for cross-company, vertical 

integration, and offers options for optimizing processes 

by means of Plant Intelligence. 

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Engineering – Convenient, Efcient and Flexible 

A simple and convenient 

user interface 

The engineering software is based 

on the latest software technology 

(e.g. Microsoft .NET); it is currently 

available in the European languages 

German, English, French, Spanish 

and Italian (plus in conjunction with 

the ASIA variant) in the Asian 

languages Chinese (Chinese simpli- 

ed); Taiwanese (Chinese traditional), 

Korean and Japanese and it contains 

a range of editors and tools for different 

conguration tasks. You carry out 

conguration using up to 32 screen 

layers. For conguring the screens, 

you have available convenient functions 

for zooming in and out, for rotating 

and aligning objects. 

In WinCC exible, you can set up 

a working environment that exactly 

matches your needs. The conguration 

of WinCC exible‘s working environment 

is user-linked to the user who 

is logged on to Microsoft Windows. 

This means that you can start your 

conguration task in a familiar environment 

immediately. 

During engineering, the system displays 

on the conguration computer‘s 

monitor a working environment that is 

oriented toward the task you are carrying 

out at any one time. Here, you will 

nd everything you need to do your 

work on a user-friendly basis: 

• the project window for representing 

the project structure (project tree) 

and for managing the project, 

• the tool box containing different 

object and access to the object 

library, 

• the object window for choosing 

objects that you have already created 

(including copying into the 

screen using Drag & Drop), 

• the workspace in which you can 

create screens (layout and animation), 

• the property window to parameterize 

objects in the workspace. 

Intelligent tools for efcient 

conguration 

WinCC exible provides you with a 

range of intelligent tools for efcient 

conguration. 

WinCC exible Advanced – Clear due to task-oriented windows 

Project window 

Object window 

Workspace 

Property 

window 

Tool box 

Using the Project Wizard, for example, 

you can create a basic project, 

including navigation and system 

screens, using just a few user default 

settings. The system uses dialogs to 

navigate and enable you to choose 

the desired objects, and to create the 

project at the push of a button. 

The basic structure of a project 

includes the controllers and operator 

panels that are used, including the 

plant conguration, the start screen 

and screen navigation, the system and 

diagnostics screens, and the libraries. 

You can of course manually change 

the settings that you made using the 

Project Wizard if required. 

Graphic conguration makes it easier 

to carry out complex conguration 

tasks like dening motion paths or 

creating screen navigation. 

The motion path of a screen object is 

composed of the start point and the 

end point, which you can easily determine 

using the mouse. You assign a 

variable to this motion path. At runtime, 

the variable value then determines 

the relative position of the 

object on the motion path. 

Table-based editors make it easier 

to create and edit objects of the same 

type, e.g. for variables, texts or messages. 

You can use the advantages 

at conguration of a large number of 

objects, e.g. when creating and editing 

variables. If you create several 

variables with a process connection 

that are created one after the other 

in the controller‘s memory, you can 

have the system automatically increment 

the address range for each variable. 

You can, however, also change 

identical settings for several variables 

at one time, e.g. the variable type or 

the connection. 

Convenient nd and replace functions 

allow you to carry out a project-wide 

search for objects, to carry 

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Engineering – Convenient, Efcient and Flexible 

Conguring a motion path 

Conguring (faceplates) 

out central rewiring of variables and to 

nd and replace texts. Apart from this, 

the cross reference list gives you direct 

access to all the objects in the project. 

Handling graphics in different formats 

is much easier. Using a graphics 

browser, you can display supplied 

graphics and your own pictures, process 

them and integrate them in a 

project screen using Drag & Drop. If 

you want to process the image, the 

system automatically starts the associated 

external editor. When placing 

graphics using Drag & Drop in the 

workspace in the open picture, the 

system opens a graphic display or 

makes possible labelling of a pushbutton 

or softkey. 

Get there quicker with reusable 

screen modules 

You can save reusable objects on a 

structured basis in libraries. In this 

context, WinCC exible provides a 

large number of scalable and dynamic 

objects. You can construct screen 

modules (faceplates) from simple 

objects on project-specic basis. By 

referencing one of the objects or 

modu-les in the library, you can carry 

out modications in the entire project 

from one central location and the 

system then changes the module at 

the same time in all the screens of the 

project where it is used. Referencing 

does this using a type/instance concept. 

Individual extensions using 

VBScript 

As standard, WinCC exible offers a 

large number of dynamic options for 

objects. However, if you want to be 

even more exible, in projects with 

270 Series Panels and above you 

have available VBScript, which is a 

powerful and easy to learn script language 

based on Visual Basic. You 

can immediately leverage your Visual 

Basic knowledge. The IntelliSense 

function allows you to quickly program 

accesses to runtime objects and 

to simply establish control sequences 

within the script. Script debugging is 

possible during engineering using the 

Simulator and, if required, at runtime. 

Displaying pictures in the graphics 

browser 

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Engineering – Multilingual, Integrated and Future-Enabled 

Multilingual – with automatic translation 

WinCC exible also supports you in an optimum way when 

creating multilingual congurations in up to 32 languages 

(16 of which can be switched online, depending on the 

target device) for worldwide deployment. Switchable views 

allow operators to enter conguration data on a multilingual 

basis. You can manage language-dependent texts and 

graphics in a central text library that carries out automatic 

translation on the basis of the system- and user-specic 

dictionaries. 

Using an import and export interface in Excel format, 

you can now further-process any texts from the project you 

like in Unicode format using external tools, e.g. for service 

providers to translate the texts into another language. This 

is particularly interesting if you are a machine tool builder 

with worldwide operations and you want to translate your 

WinCC exible project to Asian pictogram languages (Chinese, 

Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese). 

Integration in automation systems 

Integration in SIMATIC STEP 7 

Due to integration in the conguration interface of 

SIMATIC STEP 7 (V5.3 and above), it is possible to 

manage WinCC exible projects within STEP 7 and to 

share the use of communications settings, tags and 

messages. This results in considerably fewer errors and 

in the nal analysis much less time and effort for 

conguration. In this context, the SIMATIC Manager 

gives you access to all the objects of WinCC exible. 

During conguration, you directly access the STEP 7 

symbols and data blocks, that you specied when you 

created your controller program. 

Integration in SIMATIC iMap 

Component based Automation 

(CbA) is the response to the increasing inuence of mechatronics 

in mechanical and plant engineering. As a new concept 

of Totally Integrated Automation (TIA), CbA supports 

consistent modularization due to component technology 

Extract from the system dictionary 

WinCC exible integrated in the SIMATIC Manager 

in mechanical and plant engineering. 

Completed and tested modules for mechanical components, 

electronics and software for individual machine 

Convert to Excel format – Import into WinCC exible 2005 

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Engineering – Multilingual, Integrated and Future-Enabled 

functions speed up the creation of 

complex machines. This reduces the 

number of faults and errors and 

reduces total costs. Using WinCC exible, 

you create the HMI view of 

a module that you group into a 

total module together with the control 

section. In the SIMATIC iMap interconnection 

editor (V2.0 and above), 

you connect together the interfaces of 

the modules on a graphical basis. You 

do not need to program the communications 

relationships. The system then 

uses this interconnection information 

and the HMI sections in the modules 

to automatically create the basis of 

visualization using WinCC exible. In 

this context, you use a PC as the visualization 

platform. 

In this way, the system supports 

modular machine concept based on 

PROFINET CbA. 

Integration in SIMOTION SCOUT 

Integrating WinCC exible in SIMO- 

TION SCOUT V3.2 SP1 provides the 

same advantages as integration in 

SIMATIC STEP 7; apart from this, it 

offers complete integration in the 

SIMOTION SCOUT user interface as 

well as automatic generation of process 

screens in dependence on congured 

technological objects. These can 

be axis screens for manual operation 

for a machine‘s congured axes, for 

example. 

Security of investment by taking 

over conguration data 

WinCC exible is enabled for the 

future and offers security of investment 

because WinCC exible is a 

consistent further-development of the 

ProTool family. You can apply existing 

projects on an „as is“ basis and use 

them for a project with WinCC exible. 

In the case of Windows CE-based 

devices (170/270/370 Series Panels 

and Multi Panels) and PCs, this works 

without you needing to make any 

 

 

 

 

Taking over conguration data – Compatible or by conversion 

changes at all. With other target systems 

(OP7, OP27/37, TP27/37 RMOS 

Panels), you can convert the conguration 

data for an appropriate device 

that WinCC exible supports (e.g. OP 7 

to OP 77B); after this you can carry out 

customizing and add additional functions 

if required. 

Applying and reusing entire projects 

from SIMATIC WinCC V6 is planned for 

a later WinCC exible expansion stage. 

 

 

Integrating WinCC exible in SIMOTION Scout 

 

 

 

WinCC exible can now import tags 

from other systems as Excel les. This 

is possible for general tag lists. Apart 

from this, there are converters for 

leading manufacturers‘ programming 

software (e.g. Rockwell RS Logix 500, 

Modicon Telemecanique PL7, GE Fanuc 

VersaPro) that convert the manufacturer-specic 

formats in the Excel xls 

format. 

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Runtime – The Basic Functions 

SIMATIC WinCC exible Runtime offers 

you all the options you need for PC 

based HMI: 

• Operator functions, 

• Graphics and trend representations, 

• Alarm system, 

• Report and logging system, 

• Archiving (option), 

• Recipe management (option), 

• OPC communication (option), 

• Service & Diagnostics across the 

Web (option), 

• Sm@rtClient/server concepts 

(option), 

• Logging and tracking of operator 

actions (option), 

• Process diagnostics (option). 

Due to its individually scalable 

system functionality, with WinCC 

exible you only pay for the functionality 

that you need to solve 

your current HMI task. Coupled with 

Powerpacks to increase the number 

of PowerTags (cf. page 5), this provides 

low initial costs. You can also 

exibly extend the runtime functionality 

at any time using Visual Basic 

scripts. VBScript is a component of the 

WinCC exible engineering software. 

The runtime functionality depends 

on the target system and you can 

expand it using options. Some of the 

options are only available for panels 

of a specic class and above, others 

are integrated to a certain extent 

(c.f. Page 5). 

Operator functions 

and representations 

In WinCC exible, the system carries 

out visualization by means of a 

Windows-conformant user interface 

that is composed of parameterizable 

screen objects and screens that you 

create on a project-specic basis: 

• Static text and graphics display as 

well as vector graphics 

• Graphics displays for different standard 

graphics formats, e.g. bmp, 

.jpg, .wmf 

• Pushbuttons and switches for 

process operation 

• Date/time elds 

• Numeric and alphanumeric input/ 

output elds 

• Symbolic and graphic input/output 

elds 

• Dynamizable graphics from the 

SIMATIC HMI symbol library 

• Bar charts, analog display, sliders 

• Trend graphics with paging and 

zoom functions and cursor line 

• Alarm displays with operator controls 

• Technological screen modules 

created from basic system objects 

Alarms and messages 

The system generates messages in 

WinCC exible in three ways: 

• Bit messages, 

• Analog messages, 

• Messages via message frame alarm 

procedure Alarm_S with SIMATIC S7 

Using freely denable message 

classes, you can determine the 

acknowledgement 

response and the 

representation of 

the alarm events. 

Logs/reports 

In WinCC exible, 

you can output 

logs or reports on 

a time- or eventdriven 

basis. In this 

context, you can 

design the layout 

in any way you 

like. 

Access protection 

by user names and passwords 

If necessary, you can activate access 

protection. In this context, it is possible 

to create user groups that have 

specic privileges. To be able to carry 

out particular operator inputs, users 

must log on to the HMI system 

with their user names and passwords. 

Other user management functions 

include time for automatic logout and 

password aging (see also Page 18 ff). 

Language support for 

multilingual projects 

You can congure texts and graphics 

on a language-dependent basis. In this 

connection, the project can include 

up to 16 online languages (including 

Asian and Cyrillic texts). You can then 

switch between these languages at 

runtime. This means that different 

operators can choose the optimum 

language setting for their own needs. 

And if the supplier of a machine or 

plant is responsible for servicing and 

maintenance abroad, the service personnel 

can if necessary switch on-site 

from an Asian language to English, for 

example, if you have congured this 

feature. 

WinCC exible Runtime – Furnace representation 

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Archives & Recipes – 

Expanding HMI Functionality 

Archives – Archiving process 

values and messages 

Process value and message archiving 

using WinCC exible/Archives is for 

acquiring and processing process data 

from an industrial plant/machine. Evaluating 

archived process data then 

gives you information about the operating 

status of the plant/machine in 

the course of the industrial process 

(production, machining, processing, 

etc.). In this context, you can document 

the course of the process; check 

the rate of utilization or quality of production; 

or verify repeated error status 

conditions. 

Trend and alarm displays 

To represent and evaluate archived 

process values, you can use a congurable 

trend display in your screens. 

A cursor line helps you to read off 

the values. There is also a congurable 

Benets 

• Early detection of danger and disturbances 

• Avoidance of down times due to 

predictive diagnostics 

• Increased product quality and 

productivity due to regular 

evaluation of archives 

alarm display for chronologically displaying 

the acquired messages on the 

screen. 

Archiving and evaluation 

You can export acquired process 

values and messages for long-term 

archiving either manually or on a process-controlled 

basis. Depending on 

the length of the archiving period, you 

can save the process data in sequence 

or cyclic archives either as CSV les 

or in ODBC databases (e.g. Microsoft 

Access). In this context, the system 

uses all the archiving media that 

Windows supports. 

Trend representation using a congurable 

trend display 

Recipes – Managing data records 

in recipes 

The WinCC exible/Recipes option is 

for managing data records that contain 

connected machine or production 

data. You can, for example, transfer 

the contents of a data record from 

the operator panel to the controller 

to switch production to another product 

variant. Recipes are often used 

for parameterizing plants/machines in 

manufacturing industry but especially 

in the context of batch-oriented production 

in the food or plastics industries. 

Pre-assignment and management 

of recipes 

With WinCC exible, you can use 

a separate editor to conveniently 

create recipes and the associated data 

records and to pre-assign them with 

data. A congurable table object is 

for displaying and managing data at 

runtime. If necessary, you can also 

represent the individual data record 

elements directly as standard input/ 

output elds across several process 

screens. This means that the system 

can present the data to operators in 

clear technological views. 

Benets 

• Simple transfer of recipes to the 

controller 

• Clear representation in table form 

of the data elements 

• Representation in a technological 

context across several process 

screens 

• Import/export functions of data 

records for further-processing 

using other tools (e.g. Microsoft 

Excel) 

Data exchange with the controller, 

storage and logging 

Data record elements are linked to the 

process via a direct tag link with the 

tags in the controller. It is possible 

to transfer the data records in both 

directions, i.e. specications from the 

operator stations result in production 

data from the controller. In this context, 

powerful interfaces make possible 

synchronized data exchange 

with the controller. You can store the 

data records on local data carriers or 

on a network drive; if desired, you can 

also import and export them in CSV 

format. To record individual production 

and process sequences, it is possible 

to document the data records in 

the form of a batch or shift log. 

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Sm@rtAccess – Innovative HMI Concepts 

Innovative concepts 

• Distributed operator stations 

for operating large, physically 

distributed machines 

• Local operator stations with 

plant-wide access to variables, 

e.g. networking standalone 

production cells 

• Local control room solutions 

with options for central archiving, 

analysis and further-processing of 

process data 

• Link to the Ofce world 

Simple client/server mechanisms 

The WinCC exible/Sm@rtAccess 

option makes available simple client/ 

server mechanisms for Panels and 

Multi Panels from OP/TP 177B and 

above and for PCs with WinCC exible 

Runtime: 

• Display and enable operator input 

to screens using the Sm@rtClient 

concept 

• Communication between HMI stations 

using the SIMATIC HMI HTTP 

protocol 

• Web service (SOAP) for accessing 

tags from external applications via 

VBA macros 

Within the scope of the Sm@rtClient 

concept, a station can make its 

screens available to another station. In 

Benets 

• Flexible solution for locationindependent 

access to HMI systems 

and process data 

• Simple, fast conguration of 

communications relationships 

between the operator panels 

• Reduction in load on eld buses 

using TCP/IP communication 

between the operator panels 

this context, the rst station functions 

as a Sm@rtServer and the second 

one functions as a Sm@rtClient. The 

server function can easily be activated 

in the device settings by a mouse 

click. The system can represent the 

screen on the Sm@rtClient using a 

Sm@rtClient display in View only 

mode; in the same way, you can 

also set up a fully-edged, coordinated 

operator station. 

In this context, coordinated operation 

implies that at any one time 

only one station has operator input 

status, i.e. either the Sm@rtServer 

station or the Sm@rtClient station. 

Depending on the basic hardware, a 

Sm@rtServer can supply up to ve 

clients at the same time with updated 

process screens (in the case of PCs; 

with Panels, a maximum of three clients 

are possible) with one channel 

always being reserved for service purposes 

(see the Sm@rtService option). 

In the case of communication using 

the SIMATIC HMI-HTTP protocol 

(Hypertext Transfer Protocol), HMI 

stations have read and write access to 

each others‘ tags. The station that 

makes its tags accessible to another 

station functions as an HTTP server, 

with the other one functioning as an 

HTTP client. The server function can 

also be activated at conguration at 

a click of the mouse button. You con- 

gure the connection on the client 

in the same way as the connection 

to a controller. At runtime, Panels or 

Multi Panels can manage up to eight 

HTTP connections; PC systems can 

even manage up to 16. 

In both cases, operator stations can be 

servers and clients at the same time, 

with both stations needing a separate 

license in this case. Communication is 

carried out using the TCP/IP protocol, 

i.e. via Ethernet or Intranet/Internet. 

External standard applications like 

Microsoft Excel can also have read and 

write access to tags. This is carried out 

by means of the higher level Simple 

Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and a 

VBA script that is embedded in the 

application. 

Exchanging data between operator 

stations and between operator stations 

and higher level systems based 

on Ethernet Networks reduces the 

load on the eld bus, since process 

variable values that are needed on 

a multiple basis only need to be 

requested once by the controller from 

an HMI station across the eld bus and 

can then passed on to several „interested 

clients“ across the Ethernet or 

the Intranet/Internet. 

On the whole, this yields innovative 

concepts for HMI and automation 

tasks. 

Networking 

standalone production cells 

Plant-wide read and write access to 

tags makes it possible, for example, 

to easily exchange data between what 

were originally standalone sections of 

a production system (i.e. automation 

units, c.f. the example application): 

• Automatic activation of the lling 

process as soon as the cleaning 

process is nished 

• Warning message to the cleaning, 

lling and labelling station if the 

packing station cannot accept any 

more bottles due to a disturbance 

Distributed operator stations 

Operating large, physically distributed 

plant and machinery is made much 

easier, since you can use WinCC 

exible to congure distributed operator 

stations such that operators 

can carry out exclusive operating and 

monitoring from different locations – 

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Sm@rtAccess – Innovative HMI Concepts 

and all this with just one conguration. This means that 

it is only necessary to make changes to the conguration 

once. The operator sees the same screen at every operator 

station, with only one station being operator-accessible at 

any one time (coordinated operation). 

Local control room solutions 

Plant-wide access to tags and screens even allows you to 

set up favorably priced, local control room solutions. In 

this context, you can display at a higher level head station 

Sm@rtAccess – Control room solution with switchable view 

to local stations (Sm@rtClient display) 

(client) important process values from the local operator stations 

(servers) and if required, make operator inputs to them 

on a central basis. If you use a PC for the head station, this 

yields additional options for archiving, analyzing and furtherprocessing 

the acquired process data. 

Sm@rtAccess – Control room solution with central access 

to tags and screens 

Link to the Ofce world 

It is also possible to exchange data using tags between 

WinCC exible and Ofce applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel) 

using an appropriate (Excel) script. In this way, you can use 

a standard tool to carry out analysis and statistical calculations 

and, if necessary, to derive specications for optimizing 

production. 

Using WinCC exible/OPC-Server (c.f. Page 16) offers further 

options for linking to higher level systems (SCADA systems, 

production management systems, ERP applications) for 

further-processing. 

Sm@rtAccess – Large machine with distributed operator 

stations 

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Sm@rtService – Service and Diagnostics via Web 

Sm@rtService – Service and 

diagnostics via the Internet 

You can use the WinCC exible/ 

Sm@rtService option for remote control, 

diagnostics and maintenance of 

operator stations on-site via the Internet 

with Panels and Multi Panels from 

OP/TP 177B and above as well as PCs 

using WinCC exible Runtime: 

• Selective, event-driven reporting of 

errors via e-mail and text messages 

• Diagnosing operator stations using 

ready-made diagnostic functions 

• Service and maintenance functions 

(downloading projects, 

downloading/uploading recipes) 

• Remote control of an on-site station 

across the Internet with the help of 

Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer 

A typical service situation could look 

like this: the local station informs 

the service staff by e-mail or a text 

message and the engineer then contacts 

the station across the Internet 

and diagnoses the situation. There 

are a number of standard diagnostic 

functions available for this including 

remote control. After this, engineers 

can make the necessary modications 

including even downloading a complete 

project. Apart from this, they 

have the option of downloading recipes 

or parameter sets. 

Automatic e-mail dispatch 

WinCC exible can automatically send 

e-mails to the maintenance personnel 

via an SMTP server (Simple Mail Transfer 

Protocol). Dispatching e-mails of 

this type can be triggered by the following 

events: 

• The system reporting a specic 

message class 

• Actions for a parameterizable 

standard function (e.g. change in 

the value of a tag, a script, etc.) 

or user action 

Benets 

• Global access of the service 

and maintenance personnel to 

machines/plants 

• Increasing productivity by quickly 

eliminating disturbances or down 

times 

• Avoiding expensive on-site 

service callouts 

The potential contents of this type of 

e-mail are: 

• Reference 

• A message text containing process 

values (maximum of 256 characters) 

• Date/clock time 

• E-mail address for responses 

If you use e-mail/SMS gateways, you 

have access to standard networks (an 

external service provider is necessary 

for this) and, in critical situations, the 

system can even send a text message 

to your cell phone from the local station. 

For this, you need an external 

service provider. 

Sequence in a “typical“ service case 

Diagnostics and maintenance 

An integrated Web server in the local 

station makes available standard HTML 

pages for diagnostics and maintenance, 

which you can supplement on 

an as-required basis. The standard 

functions below can be activated from 

the home page: 

• Remote controlling the station 

• Starting and stopping runtime for 

maintenance purposes 

• Remote access to recipe data 

records, passwords and systemspecic 

information (e.g. system 

messages) 

• Accessing the station‘s les using a 

le browser 

• Downloading conguration data 

To exclude unauthorized access, it is 

possible to activate password protection; 

depending on the functions to be 

triggered (e.g. system diagnostics, le 

browser etc.), you can congure different 

passwords. 

For access to critical tags in the target 

system, you can congure additional 

password protection. 

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Sm@rtService – Service and Diagnostics via Web 

Within the scope of the maintenance 

functions, you can transfer the latest 

conguration data, recipe data records 

or passwords to the operator panel 

without a service engineer needing to 

be present on-site. 

Remote control via 

Internet Explorer 

For remote operating and monitoring 

stations using WinCC exible, you 

only need a standard browser (Microsoft 

Internet Explorer V6.0 SP1 and 

above). On the standard remote control 

HTML page, you can download the 

executable Sm@rtClient Viewer that 

Sm@rtService – Remote control of a 

panel via Sm@rtClient 

allows you to view (without any additional 

installation effort) not just the 

selected screen but also the layout 

of the device on-site, including, for 

example the membrane panel of a 

keyboard unit. Using this tool, you 

can then make inputs to the operator 

panel in the same way as if you were 

on-site, with the only difference being 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sm@rtService – Remote control of an 

on-site station across the Internet 

 

that you don‘t actually press the keys, 

rather you click on them with your 

mouse. 

 

Sm@rtService – Automatic dispatch of e-mails / text messages 

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OPC-Server – Open Communication 

OPC (OLE for Process Control) designates 

a standardized, open and 

non-proprietary software interface. 

OPC is based on COM (Component 

Object Model), DCOM (Distributed 

COM) Windows technologies or on 

XML (Extended Markup Language). 

Using the SIMATIC WinCC exible/ 

OPC-Server option, you can use Windows-based 

systems like the SIMATIC 

Panel PC with WinCC exible or 

SIMATIC Multi Panels, for example, for 

tasks that are close to machines and 

the process. At the same time, they 

can communicate with any OPC-capable 

application across an Ethernet. In 

this connection, WinCC exible Runtime 

or the SIMATIC Multi Panel as 

an OPC server makes available current 

process data for one or more OPC clients. 

From PC platforms, you can make 

available current process data in this 

Benets 

• Incorporation of automation 

components from different vendors 

into an automation concept 

• Saving of development costs 

through communication 

• Reduction in load on eldbuses 

way via OPC DA (Data Access) or, in 

the case of multifunctional platforms 

via OPC XML, to several OPC clients. 

This means that locally acquired data 

is available on a plant-wide basis to 

provide important information at a 

central location or to make possible 

(central) archiving of process data. 

Among other things, linking to SCADA 

(e.g. SIMATIC WinCC), MES, ERP or 

Ofce applications is possible. You can 

choose the relevant tags on the OPC 

client across the entire network using 

the OPC Browser from the OPC server‘s 

Tag Management. 

PCs with WinCC exible Runtime can 

also be OPC DA clients and acquire 

data from other OPC servers, e.g. process 

values of any controllers that are 

connected via OPC to WinCC exible 

or process specications from higher 

level applications for controlling production. 

The OPC client is delivered as 

standard with WinCC exible Runtime. 

OPC communication with higher level systems 

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ProAgent – Higher Availability 

due to Process Diagnostics 

Benets 

• Integral component of Totally 

Integrated Automation (TIA): 

increases productivity, minimizes 

the engineering outlay, reduces 

lifecycle costs 

• Reduced downtimes, increased 

machine and plant availability 

• A universal and standardized 

diagnostics concept for different 

SIMATIC components with diagnostics 

by means of standard 

screens 

• No additional conguration effort 

for the diagnostics functionality 

due to automatic generation of 

diagnostics-relevant parts for the 

controller and HMI 

• No special user know-how 

required due to comprehensible 

display of the error cause 

• Unloading the controller with 

regard to memory required and 

program execution times 

for machines and plants. Thanks to 

complete integration in the world 

of SIMATIC process diagnostics, Pro- 

Agent offers a consistent solution on 

the basis of STEP 7®, S7-PDIAG and 

S7-GRAPH Engineering Tools as well 

as the SIMATIC S7-300/-400® and 

WinAC® control systems. The system 

supports all the link types of the 

SIMATIC S7 Protocol Suite. ProAgent 

is available as different variants for 

Panels (270 Series and above), Multi 

Panels and PC platforms. 

Process diagnostics using 

WinCC exible/ProAgent 

If a process disturbance occurs, ProAgent 

determines in conjunction with the 

S7-PDIAG/S7-GRAPH Engineering Tools 

information about the location of the 

fault and its cause and supports elimination 

of the fault. This means that 

WinCC/ProAgent is an integral component 

of Totally Integrated Automation 

(TIA) for increasing productivity 

and reducing the lifecycle costs 

with a minimum engineering effort. 

Process diagnostics using standard 

screens and entering STEP7 

The following standard screens are 

available for process diagnostics: 

• Message view 

• Unit overview diagram 

• Diagnostics detail view 

• Motion view 

• Sequencer operating view 

The displayed diagram contents refer 

to the previously selected units or 

messages. This enables the calling up 

of a context-sensitive diagnostics diagram, 

depending on the message or 

selected technological unit. 

In addition, the system supports unitor 

message-specic entering STEP 7 

with a switchable representation (LAD/ 

STL/FUP editor, S7-GRAPH, HW-CON- 

FIG). 

Saving costs frequently yields signicant 

increases in productivity. 

In this context, the focus is more 

and more on preventive maintenance. 

The most important factor is to eliminate 

disturbances as quickly as possible 

while deploying as few personnel 

as possible. 

Ideally, the operating staff should deal 

with some of the preventive maintenance 

work. 

The operating staff is on-site, is familiar 

with working processes and can 

intervene quickly. This saves time and 

costs. This is exactly the situation 

in which ProAgent supports you in 

quickly identifying disturbances. 

Process diagnostics with WinCC exible/ProAgent 

Integral component of 

Totally Integrated Automation 

SIMATIC WinCC exible/ProAgent® 

enables precise process diagnostics 

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Audit and ChangeControl – Ready for Validation 

WinCC exible 2005 means that 

“Ready for Validation“ also applies 

to machine-level applications. The 

WinCC exible/Audit option covers 

the main requirements of GMP (Good 

Manufacturing Practice) and of the US 

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 

for compulsory validation of applications 

according to CFR 21 Part 11 

in the pharmaceutical industry, to 

active ingredient manufacture in the 

pharmaceutical industry and to some 

extent in the cosmetics industry. Apart 

from this, WinCC exible/Audit is also 

interesting for manufacturers active 

in the food, beverages and tobacco 

industry who want to set up their 

Benets 

• Conforms to the requirements of 

the Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA) for the pharmaceutical 

industry 

• Reduced time and effort for engineering 

and validation 

• Available for Panels and 

Multi Panels of the 270 Series 

and above as well as for PCbased 

solutions 

• Matched in an optimum way 

for mechanical and plant engineers 

who must meet strict quality 

requirements with regard to 

the products to be manufactured 

as well as to the manufacturing 

process (e.g. when supplying 

machines and plant subsystems 

in applications that are subject to 

compulsory validation) 

Audit Trail – Displayed using a viewer 

plants on a subject to compulsory validation 

basis in good time to be able 

to comply with future legal requirements. 

Audit makes it easier to construct 

machines for these branches 

of industry, since the important functions 

to meet these requirements 

are already offered as-standard, which 

means that it is possible in this way to 

qualify individual machines or standalone 

plant sections at the suppliers‘. 

At the same time, Audit Trails are 

also suitable for tracking manufacturer 

processes in the sense of tracking 

& tracing as required by guideline 

EU 178/2002, for example. 

Secure access control including 

electronic signature 

Even the basic system guarantees 

access protection which means that 

only authorized personnel have access 

within the scope of their responsibility 

at the operator panel. In this context, 

each user is assigned to a user group 

with dened function privileges on 

the system. This prevents unauthorized 

users, from changing recipes or 

starting process steps without permission, 

for example. 

Since the FDA species that all activities 

in the plant must be uniquely 

assigned to specic individuals, the 

login and logout processes must be 

logged in the Audit Trail with a 

time stamp. Apart from this, you 

must meet other regulations, e.g. twocomponent 

authorization comprising 

a user ID and password, password 

aging (to ensure that passwords are 

renewed on a regular basis), blocking 

users by the administrator and automatic 

Logout if users are inactive for a 

relatively long period of time. SIMATIC 

WinCC exible 2005 in conjunction 

with SIMATIC Panels supports you in 

meeting the requirements for access 

control. 

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Audit and ChangeControl – Ready for Validation 

You can provide additional prompts for 

an electronic signature and a commentary 

in the case of operator actions 

like entering specied values or saving 

and loading recipes. This is of course 

automatically logged in the Audit Trail. 

Recording operator actions in 

Audit Trails 

In operation, the system records all 

relevant changes to tags and any 

operator actions in accordance with 

Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) as 

Audit Trails and saves them to a CSV 

le. Operator actions of this type can 

include, for example, entering process 

values, starting recipes or acknowledging 

messages, as well as messages 

from user management like logging a 

user on and off. 

It is possible to visualize in a userfriendly 

way the Audit Trails that 

are registered in the project using 

a viewer. Then you can see exactly 

who operated what and when – all 

this with a minimum of conguration 

effort! Apart from this, a checksum 

is used to ensure that the data in 

the Audit Trail has not been tampered 

with. 

Tracking changes in manufacturing 

processes by means of Audit Trails 

is possible from 270 Series Panels 

onwards. Two variants of the option 

package are offered: 

• WinCC exible/Audit for Panels 

• WinCC exible/Audit for PCs 

Archiving and logging 

WinCC exible 2005 makes it possible 

to carry out archiving and logging in 

dependence on the requirements, i.e. 

on a local basis, or, in distributed systems 

on a central basis too. For this, 

there is support for solutions for longterm 

archiving and data recovery. 

ChangeControl – Versioning and 

tracking changes 

Once a plant has been commissioned 

and validated, it may be necessary 

to make changes to the conguration 

due to the plant being adapted or 

extended. In this connection, you 

must record all the changes to a plant 

from the start of production for the 

entire service life and, with software in 

particular, you must document reproducible 

versions. This means that you 

must log the conguration, in a similar 

way to runtime operation, in the audit 

trail of the conguration: what is 

known as the “Change Log“. Using 

the WinCC exible/ChangeControl 

option, it is also possible to carry 

out versioning and change tracking of 

WinCC exible projects. You can log 

changes in the project and if necessary 

verify them should the need arise. 

In general, you can use ChangeControl 

to secure interim status conditions in 

the case of complex innovations or 

extensions and to carry out a rollback. 

OEMs and custom machinery builders 

can benet from this capability that 

enables you to manage your projects 

with a clear overview, record delivered 

customer versions and later modications, 

for example. In the case of sub 

contracting work, tracking changes via 

ChangeControl may provide the basis 

for calculating the time and effort 

needed for modications. 

Parameterizing GMP-relevant tags 

Benets 

• Consistent saving of conguration 

data 

– Management in a database 

– Version management for 

– changes to the project data 

– (with a rollback function) 

– Comparison of conguration 

– data 

• Tracking of changes to congurations 

• Contiguous verication of the 

change history for the entire life 

cycle 

• Validation support 

– Makes validation easier 

– Support in retaining the 

– validated status of the plant 

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SIMATIC WinCC exible 2005 

Other New Features 

New in WinCC exible 2005 

• Faster and more efcient at the 

engineering stage 

Optimized system response 

Saving in WinCC exible 2004 

format 

Importing tag lists in xls format 

Text import/export in xls format 

(Unicode) 

Simple handling of graphics in 

different formats 

Transferring conguration data 

on a PROFIBUS using routing 

Integration in SIMOTION Scout 

V3.2 SP1 

• Ready for Validation 

Validation support at the engineering 

and runtime stages 

Tracking manufacturing 

processes using Audit Trails 

Available for 270 series Panels 

and above 

• Other New Features 

New operating devices with an 

expanded range of functions 

OP 73micro, TP 177micro 

OP 177B, TP 177B 

Mobile Panel 177 

Retentive message buffer and 

Sm@rt options with 177B Operator, 

Touch and Mobile Panels and 

above 

Support for SIMATIC 677, 877 and 

IL 77 Panel PCs 

Floating Licenses for engineering 

software 

Support of OPC XML 1.0 for 

Mobile Panels (Option) 

Automation License Manager 

The new Automation License Manager, 

which in future will be used 

consistently with SIMATIC Software, 

makes engineering more convenient 

and offers new functions. On a network, 

you can, for example set up several 

WinCC exible engineering stations 

that can use the same licenses 

alternately. 

With the Automation License Manager, 

a License Key (LK) replaces authorization 

with AuthorsW. On a local 

area network (LAN), you can store 

License Keys on any server PC connected 

to the LAN. If somebody starts 

WinCC exible on a conguration computer, 

this assigns one free License Key 

on the server; when the user leaves 

WinCC exible, the license is freed 

up for another user. In this connection, 

the WinCC exible engineering 

software (ES) can be installed on several 

computers and can be started the 

same number of times as there are 

License Keys stored on the server PC. 

This type of licensing is known as a 

Floating License. 

 

 

 

The information provided in this brochure contains 

merely general descriptions or characteristics 

of performance which in case of actual 

use do not always apply as described or which 

may change as a result of further development 

of the products. An obligation to provide the 

respective characteristics shall only exist if 

expressly agreed in the terms of contract. Availability 

and technical specications are subject to 

change without notice. 

All designations in the brochure marked 

with ® are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. 

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 

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Postfach 4848 · D-90327 Nuernberg 

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