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SIMATIC BATCH

Siemens ST PCS 7 · November 2007

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The modularity and flexibility of SIMATIC BATCH are optimally 

supported by the hardware available. The basic hardware from 

the Section "SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstation" in the Chap-

ter "System-neutral components" can be used for SIMATIC 

BATCH. Please note that the operating system and the ES/OS 

software of the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system are pre-

installed as standard on the single station, server or client as the 

basic device. If these basic devices are used for SIMATIC 

BATCH, it is possible to extend or reject the existing SIMATIC 

PCS 7 installation, and restore it for the operating system using 

the restore DVD.

For small plants, SIMATIC BATCH can be installed together with 

the OS software on a single station system. You can find further 

details on the hardware for this OS/BATCH single station with the 

ordering data of this section:
• In the Section "SIMATIC PCS 7 Industrial Workstation" of the 

Chapter "System-neutral components"

• In the Section "OS hardware" in the Chapter "Operator system"
A further alternative for small plants is operation of SIMATIC 

BATCH on the starter system SIMATIC PCS 7 BOX 416.

Batch process automation typically has a distributed cli-

ent/server configuration with one batch server and several batch 

clients, which together process a plant project. The batch server 

of such a configuration can also be configured with redundancy 

in order to increase availability. 
SIMATIC BATCH clients and OS clients can run on separate or 

common basic hardware. The batch server software is usually 

executed on separate server hardware (Batch Server). Depend-

ing on the load on the operator system, the OS and batch server 

software can also be executed on common server hardware 

(OS/Batch Server).
Since the batch server is only a node on the OS-LAN, we recom-

mend that only the server version of the SIMATIC PCS 7 Indus-

trial Workstation with BCE communication is used. The 

10/100/1000 Mbit/s Ethernet RJ45 port is already onboard and 

can be used for connecting to the OS LAN.

The batch server redundancy is supported by the SIMATIC 

BATCH basic package. The two batch servers of a redundant 

pair of servers have identical configurations. Contrary to the 

case of OS redundancy, they must always be connected via a 

separate Ethernet connection in order to optimize the internal 

communication. Since the batch server is not usually connected 

to the plant bus, the Ethernet network card of the SIMATIC PCS 7 

Industrial Workstation which is provided as standard for the plant 

bus connection can be used for the redundant communication. 
An optical or electrical connection can be used depending on 

the environmental conditions and the distance between the two 

batch servers, e.g. up to 100 m per crossover network cable 

(RJ45 connectors). For details, refer to Manual "SIMATIC PCS 7 

V7.0 fault-tolerant process control systems"; for appropriate ca-

ble material and further accessories, refer to Catalog IK PI.
If the SIMATIC BATCH software and the SIMATIC PCS 7 

OS software are installed together on a redundant pair of serv-

ers, the two servers must be connected together via an addi-

tional desktop adapter network card for the redundant commu-

nication. The serial RS 232 connection described in the Section 

"OS redundancy" is omitted.
For information and components for connection to a redundant 

terminal bus, see page 9/28.

The basic hardware is expandable according to the customer’s 

particular requirements and whether the hardware is used as 

single station, server or client with the following options:
• Multi-VGA graphics card for connection of up to 4 monitors
• Process monitors (see Spage 2/17)
The multi-VGA graphics cards "2 Screens" and "4 Screens" are 

offered for multichannel operation of an OS/batch single station 

or a batch client with 2 up to 4 process monitors. Using a multi-

VGA graphics card, the visualization of the plant/unit can be di-

vided among up to 4 process monitors per operator station by 

using different views. These plant sections can all be operated 

using just one keyboard and one mouse. The multi-VGA graph-

ics cards are compliant with the EN 55022 and EN 50082 stan-

dards. Each card occupies one PCI slot.

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Since all messages from SIMATIC BATCH are processed in the operator 

system’s message system, the use of a signal module is only recom-

mendable with multi-function OS/batch stations (clients, single stations). 

SIMATIC BATCH clients and OS clients

Automation
systems

Batch server

OS server

Engineering

System

OS-LAN

Plant bus

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