WinCC/IndustrialDataBridge
Connection to databases and IT systems
WinCC/IndustrialDataBridge uses standard interfaces to link the automation
level (controls) to the IT world and to ensure a flow of information in both
directions.
Examples of these types of interfaces include OPC in the field of automation and
SQL database interfaces in the IT world. You can integrate systems made by
different manufacturers using a large number of different standard interfaces.
You carry out configuration (without programming) on a favorably priced basis
using a standard software package.
Typically, WinCC (or other SIMATIC products like WinCC flexible) with its OPC DA
server interface is the data source and an external database is the data
destination. Apart from this, you can also access the archived messages and
process values in the WinCC database via the WinCC OLE-DB Provider. Depending on
the volume of data, licenses are offered with 128 / 512 / 2,048 and 10K tags.
Key benefits
- Connecting the automation level to the IT world
- Integrating systems made by different manufacturers using a large
number of different standard interfaces (amongst others OPC, OLE-DB,
office formats)
- Simple, favorably priced configuration using standard software
(without programming)
- High-performance data exchange between several systems at the same
time
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Flexible switching between applications
IndustrialDataBridge makes a connection between the source and destination
interface and transfers the data as follows
- depending on a change in value
- after a configurable time has expired
- or if a specific event occurs.
Data is exchanged between automation systems made by different manufacturers
via IndustrialDataBridge, for example via OPC. Connecting OPC servers via the
IndustrialDataBridge makes possible communication between different devices,
data sources and destinations.
- Linking SCADA and supervisory systems made by a wide variety of different
manufacturers via the OPC interface.
- Storing process data in office formats like MS Excel or MS Access.
- SQL databases are available as the data destination for production data
acquisition. The system can either transfer the data from the data source
using OPC on an event-driven basis or transmit it directly to the controller.
- With a database as the data source, you can transfer recipes or specified
values directly to WinCC or to a controller.
Fig. Linking to databases and IT systems
Client Access Licenses (CAL)
To directly access current WinCC data via OPC DA, you do not need a separate
license. You always need WinCC/CAL whenever you want to access WinCC data
across the interfaces of the options WinCC/Connectivity Pack and
WinCC/IndustrialDataBridge from any computer which has not installed (and
licensed) neither the basic WinCC system nor a WinCC option.
If desired, the WinCC/CAL pro Processor License even provides access for
all the computers in your configuration to the interfaces of the Connectivity
Pack or allows them to use the IndustrialDataBridge.
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