Example: Implementation concept (RT Unified) - WinCC Unified

Configuring plant hierarchies (RT Unified)

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Configuring plant hierarchies (RT Unified)
Product
WinCC Unified
Version
V20
Publication date
06/2025
Language
en-US
Example: Implementation concept

Creating a plant view

They map the plants, units and production lines of the brewery in the plant view. To do this, you first create the plant object types that you can reuse for plant objects. Based on the plant object types, you then create the "Brewery" plant view from the plant objects. The two production lines "Bottling" and "Packaging" contain the units according to the following concept:

  • Bottling

    • Robot_1

    • Robot_2

    • Robot_3

    • Conveyor_1

    • Filling Tank_1

  • Packaging

    • Robot_4

    • Robot_5

    • Robot_6

    • Robot_7

    • Conveyor_2

    • Conveyor_3

Visualization

You create faceplate types for the "Conveyor", "Robot" and "Filling Tank" plant object types.

The faceplate types of the plant object types are instantiated in the screens of the plant objects.

According to the structure of the production line, the "Robot" faceplate type is reused three times in the "Bottling" production line and four times in the "Packaging" production line.

You also configure an overview screen called "Overview" with the "Plant overview" control. The plant overview gives you direct access to the unit data in runtime.

Temperature monitoring

You want to monitor the temperature in the filling container and to notify the operator if changes occur.

To monitor the temperature, configure a trend control and an alarm control for the filling tank as companion controls for the plant overview.

Because a specific temperature must not be exceeded during the bottling of beverages, configure analog alarms for the filling tank that can be output via the alarm view.

The trend view provides you with an overview of the temperature trend of the filling tank.

Logging

The production values are logged for the Food Authority inspections. It must be verified that the temperature was complied with and that quality checks were regularly performed. To this end, configure logging tags for the relevant plant objects.