With SIMATIC WinCC Unified Engineering, you benefit from the full capabilities of a proven, versatile engineering framework. Features include
Central user management
The User Management Component allows users and user groups to be defined through the TIA Portal connection and managed across projects. Connection to a Microsoft Active Directory is also possible.
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Automated generation of HMI visualizations
The TIA Portal Option SiVArc allows standardized HMI projects to be easily, flexibly, and quickly generated without programming knowledge, based on PLC modules, which saves time and increases quality.
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Integrated diagnostics
SIMATIC ProDiag provides machine and plant diagnostics that save programming and commissioning time and support troubleshooting that is directly integrated in the HMI. Detailed monitoring messages provide specific information on the monitoring mode, location, and cause of various faults, allowing plant operators to identify any potential danger in advance and take appropriate countermeasures.
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Interdisciplinary collaboration
TIA Portal Multiuser Engineering allows several users to work on the same project simultaneously, which significantly reduces configuration times so projects can be commissioned faster.
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Modular automation
Compared with traditional automation, modular automation enables flexible manufacturing, where production lines can be divided into mobile modules and quickly reconfigured. This makes it easier to meet different requirements.
Open and flexible automation and plant concepts require standardization. The module type package (MTP) standard is a modularization enabler. When operating a modularly structured plant, integrating process units from different manufacturers can be difficult, and problems may result, such as when process units use different communication protocols and interfaces.
The MTP is standardized in the VDI/VDE/NAMUR 2658 guideline and enables manufacturer-independent integration of process units into a higher process control level. This guideline calls a process a “PEA” (process equipment assembly) and calls a process control layer a “POL” (process orchestration layer).
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