SIMATIC WinCC flexible
Part of Totally Integrated Automation

TIA, with its triple consistency in configuration/programming, data storage, and communication, makes it possible to use WinCC flexible to reduce lifecycle costs

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	Integration in SIMATIC STEP 7
	Integration in SIMATIC iMap
	Integration in SIMOTION SCOUT

Integration in SIMATIC STEP 7

Due to integration in the configuration interface of SIMATIC STEP 7 (V5.3 and above), it is possible to manage WinCC flexible projects within STEP 7 and to share the use of communications settings, tags and messages. This results in considerably fewer errors and in the final analysis much less time and effort for configuration. In this context, the SIMATIC Manager gives you access to all the objects of WinCC flexible. During configuration, you directly access the STEP 7 symbol table, that you specified when you created your controller program. 
 

Integration in SIMATIC iMap

Component Based Automation (CbA) is the response to the increasing influence of mechatronics in mechanical and plant engineering. As a new concept of Totally Integrated Automation (TIA), CbA supports consistent modularization due to component technology in mechanical and plant engineering. Completed and tested modules for mechanical components, electronics and software for individual machine functions speed up the creation of complex machines. This reduces the number of faults and errors and reduces total costs. 
Using WinCC flexible, you create the HMI view of a module that you group into a total module together with the control section. In the SIMATIC iMap interconnection editor (V2.0 and above), you connect together the interfaces of the modules on a graphical basis. You do not need to program the communications relationships. The system then uses this interconnection information and the HMI sections in the modules to automatically create the basis of visualization using WinCC flexible. In this context, you use a PC as the visualization platform. In this way WinCC flexible supports machine concepts based on PROFINET.
 

Integration in SIMOTION SCOUT

Integrating WinCC flexible in SIMOTION SCOUT V3.2 SP1 provides the same advantages as integration in SIMATIC STEP 7; apart from this, it offers complete integration in the SIMOTION SCOUT user interface as well as automatic generation of process screens in dependence on configured objects. These can be axis screens for manual operation for a machine‘s configured axes, for example.