Siemens ST PCS 7 User Manual

SIMATIC PCS 7 upgrades V6.x to V7.0

Siemens ST PCS 7 · November 2007

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SIMATIC PCS 7 engineering systems with Engineering Software 

V6.0 or V6.1 can be upgraded to Version 7.0 using the SIMATIC 

PCS 7 Engineering Upgrade Package.
It may also be necessary to upgrade the S7-REDCONNECT 

communications software from V6.3 (edition 2005) to V6.4 (edi-

tion 2006). S7-REDCONNECT is only required in combination 

with fault-tolerant automation systems. 

The licenses included in the Engineering Upgrade Package V6.x 

to V7.0 apply to the following software components of SIMATIC 

PCS 7 version 6.0/6.1:
• PCS 7 Engineering AS (all PO versions)
• PCS 7 Engineering OS (all PO versions)
• Version Cross Checker
• Version Trail
• Import/Export Assistant
• PCS 7 PID-Tuner
• SIMATIC Logon
• WinCC Redundancy
• SFC Visualization
• BCE License
• SIMATIC NET S7-1613 for Industrial Ethernet

If fault-tolerant automation systems are used, the engineering 

station requires the S7-REDCONNECT communications soft-

ware in addition to the CP 1613 (A2) communications processor 

for the bus communication. This is available as:
• S7-REDCONNECT
• S7-REDCONNECT Upgrade (additive to existing S7-1613 

communications software)

The SIMATIC NET S7-REDCONNECT V6.3 communications soft-

ware is used in the engineering software with SIMATIC PCS 7 

V6.x, on the other hand the SIMATIC NET S7-REDCONNECT 

V6.4 with SIMATIC PCS 7 V7.0. When upgrading the engineering 

station to SIMATIC PCS 7 V7.0, an upgrade of the 

S7-REDCONNECT communications software to V6.4 is therefore 

also required.

SIMATIC PDM can be integrated in the engineering system, i.e. 

in the configuration environment of SIMATIC PCS 7, or operated 

in stand-alone mode. 
Since the version cycle of SIMATIC PDM is different from that of 

SIMATIC PCS 7, the upgrade information is summarized in a 

separate section "Upgrades of SIMATIC PDM" directly before 

this section. 

S7-PLCSIM can be integrated in the engineering system, i.e. in 

the configuration environment of SIMATIC PCS 7. However, the 

version cycle of S7-PLCSIM is not always synchronous with the 

version cycle of SIMATIC PCS 7:
• SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.1 corresponds to S7-PLCSIM V5.3
• SIMATIC PCS 7 V7.0 + ServicePack 1 corresponds to the cur-

rent program version S7-PLCSIM V5.4

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Order No.

3 languages (German, English, 

French), 

executes with Windows XP 

Professional, floating license for 

1 user
Type of delivery:

License key disks, emergency 

key disk, certificate of license, 

terms and conditions;

PCS 7 V7.0 toolset DVDs, 

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 

including EULA and supplemen-

tary CDs/DVDs (e.g. Microsoft 

ServicePacks and tools)

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Order No.

Software for upgrading 

S7-REDCONNECT, runtime soft-

ware, 2 languages (German, Eng-

lish), executes with Windows 

2000 Professional/ 2000 Server/ 

XP Professional/ Server 2003, sin-

gle license for 1 installation, 

software and electronic manual 

on CD-ROM, license key on dis-

kette

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Order No.

5 languages (German, English, 

French, Italian, Spanish), exe-

cutes with Windows 2000 

Professional or Windows 

XP Professional, floating license 

for 1 user 
Type of delivery: Authorization 

diskette, certificate of license, 

terms and conditions; software 

and electronic documentation on 

CD

Subscription for 1 year with auto-

matic extension; requirement: 

current software version

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