Siemens Welding System ST PCS 7 Manual De Usuario

Siemens ST PCS 7 · November 2007

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The modularity and flexibility of SIMATIC Route Control are opti-

mally supported by the hardware available. The basic hardware 

from page 2/14 can be used for SIMATIC Route Control. 

For small plants, SIMATIC Route Control can be installed either 

alone or together with the OS software on a single station system 

or a SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX 416. You can select the hardware for 

the OS/RC single station at page 2/14, page 5/6, or further down 

in this section. You can find information and the ordering data for 

the SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX 416 at page 3/8.

Distributed multi-user systems with client/server architecture, 

expandable with up to 32 clients per server, are typical for the 

automation of material transports with SIMATIC Route Control. 

Basically it is possible to operate an RC Server, Batch Server 

and OS Server on shared basic hardware. However, availability 

will be higher and performance better if each component has its 

own server hardware. The availability of the RC Server can be 

further increased through redundant configuration of the server 

hardware. SIMATIC PCS 7 supports multiple-station systems 

with up to 12 servers/server pairs.
The Route Control Client is represented by the Route Control 

Center (RCC). The RCC can be installed on an OS Client, a 

Batch Client or separate client hardware.
RC server and OS/RC single stations can be connected to the 

Industrial Ethernet plant bus via a CP 1613 A2 communications 

processor or via a simple FastEthernet network card with BCE 

(suitable for communication with up to 8 automation systems; 

not H systems). 

The CP 1613 communication integrated in the IE version of the 

SIMATIC PCS 7 Workstation for single stations and servers is a 

combination of CP 1613 communications processor and 

S7-1613 communications software. When using fault-tolerant 

automation systems, the SIMATIC PCS 7 Workstation requires 

the S7-REDCONNECT software instead of the S7-1613 commu-

nications software. The S7-REDCONNECT Upgrade is suitable 

for upgrading the communications software (for ordering data, 

RC Server redundancy is supported by the SIMATIC Route Con-

trol Server software. Further software components or a separate 

connection between the two servers as is the case with the 

OS server redundancy or batch server redundancy are not re-

quired.
With the assistance of the SIMATIC Route Control Server soft-

ware, the two redundant RC servers carry out mutual monitoring 

during operation. If the active RC server fails, the redundant 

partner immediately becomes the master and takes over opera-

tion. The RC clients are automatically switched over to the new 

master in this case. Following return of the failed RC server, data 

matching is carried out with the active RC server, and the latter 

remains the master.
For information and components for the redundant bus connec-

tion (plant bus and terminal bus), see page 9/28.

The basic hardware (PC basic unit) is expandable with the fol-

lowing options according to the customer’s particular require-

ments and whether the hardware is used as RC Single Station, 

RC Server or Batch Client:
• Multi-VGA graphics card for connection of up to 4 monitors
• Process monitors (see page 2/17)
The Multi-VGA graphics cards "2 Screens" and "4 Screens" are 

offered for multichannel operation of an OS/RC Single Station or 

a client with 2 up to 4 process monitors. Views distributed over 2 

or as many as 4 process monitors by means of a graphics card 

can be controlled using one keyboard and one mouse. The 

Multi-VGA graphics cards are compliant with EN 55022 and 

EN 50082 standards. Each card occupies one PCI slot in the op-

erator station.

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Since all messages from SIMATIC Route Control are processed 

in the operator system’s message system, it is not necessary to 

use a signal module.

SIMATIC Route Control can operate together with the WinAC 

Slot 416 controller of the SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX 416 (up to 

30 simultaneous material transports) and with the following auto-

mation systems of the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system:
• AS 416-3 (up to 30 simultaneous material transports)
• AS 417-4
• AS 417H
Safety-related automation systems, e.g. AS 417F/FH, cannot be 

used to control material transport with SIMATIC Route Control. 

SIMATIC Route Control clients and OS clients

Automation
systems

Route Control 
server

OS server

Engineering

System

OS-LAN

Plant bus

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