User's Manual

System-neutral components

SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstation

Basic hardware

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Siemens ST PCS 7 · November 2007

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Overview

The SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstations are based on a

SIMATIC Rack PC of type 547B which features powerful, innova-

tive Intel PC architecture of 19" design. They are certified by the

CE marking for use in offices and industrial environments, and

comply with the specific requirements of process control tech-

nology.

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Application

Specially optimized versions are available for operation as sin-

gle stations, servers or clients. The operating system and the fol-

lowing ES/OS software of the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control

system are already preinstalled when delivered:

• Single station: PCS 7 Engineering Software for AS/OS (includ-

ing OS Runtime software)

• Server: PCS 7 OS Software Server

• Client: PCS 7 OS Software Client

You only need the corresponding licenses in order to use the

preinstalled SIMATIC PCS 7 software.

Note:

Please note the standard installation if you use the SIMATIC

PCS 7 Industrial Workstations within the SIMATIC PCS 7 pro-

cess control system for other tasks, e.g. as basic hardware for

SIMATIC BATCH, SIMATIC Route Control, StoragePlus, Central

Archive Server or PCS 7 Web Server. You can then extend or re-

ject the existing SIMATIC PCS 7 installation, and restore it for the

operating system using the restore DVD.

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 9/29).