Siemens PCS 7 - Solutions for Single Station Systems; OS Single Station System

3.6.5.2 Long-term archiving with the Process Historian and Information Server
Functions of the Process Historian
You can perform the following functions with the Process Historian:
● Archive messages and process values from PCS 7 OS
● Archive batch data from SIMATIC BATCH
● Transfer archive data to external storage media
Functions of the Information Server
● Integration and creation of reports from Office products (Excel, Word, PDF)
● Display archive data of a batch
● Web-based display and generation of reports
Additional information
● Documentation
SIMATIC; Process Historian
● Documentation SIMATIC; Information Server
3.7 Solutions for single station systems
3.7.1 OS single station system
OS as single station system on a single PC
● The OS single station system is an operator station on a single PC with complete operator
control and monitoring functionality for a PCS 7 project (process cell/unit).
● The OS single station system on the system bus can be used in parallel with additional
single station or multiple station systems.
● Select one of the following configurations for more fault tolerance in a single station system
in a PCS 7 system:
– Configuration with redundant OS single station system
Install the "OS Single Station Redundancy" license key on each PC station of the
redundant pair.
– Configuration with multiple OS single station systems with the same configuration
PC components of a PCS 7 system
3.7 Solutions for single station systems
PCS 7 - PC Configuration (V8.2)
Installation Manual, 03/2016, A5E36200050-AB 29