OSx Station Basics 1-7SIMATIC PCS 7 OSx 4.1.2 Operator
The OSx station in a single-station system also controls and monitors the
process by handling these functions:
• Displays graphics, trends, tag details, tag groups, alarms and report
previews
• Configures trend groups, tag groups, reports, recipes, alarm groups,
and action requests
• Provides alarm summary and acknowledgement
• Downloads recipes to control nodes, including both operator-initiated
and controller-initiated requests
• Allows operator interaction with action requests
RDT Option
OSx Station
(Supervisory)
Optional Engineering Station (APT
and/or S7 Engineering Toolset)
Control Nodes
Programmable Controllers
Industrial Ethernet
Network
X Terminal
Option
@aGlance
Option
Figure 1-2 Single OSx Station System Architecture