SIMATIC Maintenance Station The SIMATIC Maintenance Station quickly gives you a clear overview of the status of your automation. The relevant data, supplied by a wide variety of nodes such as control components, switchgear, drives, etc., are uniformly and clearly visualized on the Maintenance Station. The direct path to plant-based asset management SIMATIC Maintenance Station is available as option to STEP 7 and SIMATIC WinCC. With this software, a SCADA system can be efficiently expanded into a Maintenance Station. Modular design. Suitable for plants of any size Suitable for small plants, a SCADA system and a Maintenance Station can be operated on the same PC. And like the SCADA system, the Maintenance Station can be expanded in large plants to be used as a client-server application with multi-client mode. On the server of a client-server application, the maintenance-relevant signals and messages from the components and devices are collected and archived. The client displays them. Tried and tested SIMATIC standards. Basis also for the Maintenance Station SIMATIC STEP 7 for configuring SIMATIC HMI WinCC for HMI and SIMATIC SNMP OPC server for the interfacing of network components and industrial PCs For a better overview. Detail view when required. In addition to the use of uniform symbols, a clear overview requires the hierarchical structuring of the information; the maintenance engineer, using as basis an overview display (plant view), also has access, when required, to all component and device details. The possibility of also accessing this detail information in the operational phase, and to do so quickly, allows the maintenance engineer to save an enormous amount of time and to work unerringly. Helpful hierarchy Using uniform symbols, the overview representation visualizes the status of a component itself and, as common-status display, the statuses of all devices in the subordinate hierarchical levels. The common-status display is based on a traffic light, and shows the status to be good resp. the importance level of a possible problem in red, yellow and green. A button allows step-by-step access to all subordinate hierarchical levels, all the way down to the lowest device level. Additional views to the maintenance information are also available, giving the maintenance engineer a complete overview of all current maintenance-relevant information about the asset. This makes it possible to assess the state of a plant at a glance. The information is systematically structured and hierarchically organized. The amount of information shown in each individual display view always remains manageable for the maintenance engineer, although he also has access to all information at any time.