Plant Intelligence Options (RT Unified) - WinCC Unified

Overview

The Plant Intelligence options offer optional enhancements to the WinCC Unified Basic System. These can be combined freely in line with your requirements.

The options allow you to plan production processes and analyze and optimize the overall effectiveness of your plant. In addition, you can design flexible production processes and coordinate complex and interlinked production processes.

Plant Intelligence options

• WinCC Unified Performance Insight

  Define, calculate and analyze plant-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) for individual aggregates, machines or entire production lines in machine-oriented or line-oriented manufacturing plants.

• WinCC Unified Calendar

  Plan, configure and manage events and actions together in a shared calendar in WinCC and combine these with WinCC tags or scripts.

• WinCC Unified Sequence

  Control step-based and sequence-based processes, define the production steps of the production units and adapt the production processes flexibly in runtime.

• WinCC Unified Line Coordination

  Coordinate and supervise processes in the production line in your plant. Control and manage recipes, processes and jobs for the production of various end products.

Note

The Plant Intelligence options are successively released as add-on packages. To use the Plant Intelligence options, you require the relevant software packages and licenses.

You can find information on the licenses in the TIA Portal installation instructions in the section "Licensing of Plant Intelligence options".

Requirements

Please note the following requirements for using the options:

• SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Unified is installed.

• STEP7 Professional is installed.

• Plant Intelligence option, including license, is installed.

• The plant hierarchy is configured.

• License for the respective option is available.

• The configuration engineer has WinCC experience.