Siemens PCS 7 - Possible Ways to Operate Engineering Stations

Property Description
Switch over in the event
of a terminal bus failure
Approved network adapters are used for a redundant connection of the PC
stations to a terminal bus
1)
:
● Onboard network adapters
2 )
● Standard network adapters (INTEL)
2 )
Switch over in the event
of a system bus failure
Approved network adapters are used for a redundant connection of the PC
stations to a system bus
1)
:
● Onboard network adapters
2 )
● Standard network adapters (INTEL)
2 )
● Communications processors CP 16xx
2)
1)
You can find additional information in the product overview Process Control System PCS 7; Released
Modules .
2)
You can find additional information on this in the manual Process Control System PCS 7; Fault-
tolerant Process Control Systems .
Recommendations
You should always use redundant server pairs when the availability of the respective
application is critical to your PCS 7 plant.
If PC stations of a PCS 7 plant are integrated into a domain, we recommend that you use
multiple domain controllers.
Additional information
● You can find information about the client-server architecture in the "Differences between
multiple station systems and single station systems (Page 17)" section.
● You can find information on how to activate redundancy in the "Configuring redundancy for
redundant servers (Page 81)" section.
● You can find information about activating redundancy for operator stations in the manual
Process Control System PCS 7; Fault-Tolerant Process Control Systems .
● You can find information about configuring and implementing redundancy for BATCH
stations in the manual Process Control System PCS 7; SIMATIC BATCH .
● You can find information about configuring and implementing redundancy for Route Control
stations in the manual Process Control System PCS 7; SIMATIC Route Control .
3.3 Possible ways to operate engineering stations
Working with multiple PCs
You have a variety of options available when working on engineering stations to engineer
PCS 7 systems. You can, for example, use more than one PC when engineering a PCS 7
system if a single PC is inadequate for the job.
PC components of a PCS 7 system
3.3 Possible ways to operate engineering stations
PCS 7 - PC Configuration (V8.2)
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