Kristie Simon Shea delivered this presentation at the 2014 Siemens Automation Summit in Orlando, Florida on getting the most out of WinCC OA.

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Automation Summit
A User Conference - June 23 – 25, 2014

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Kristie Shea
Getting the most out of WinCC-OA

3. Agenda
 Introductions
 Selecting a SCADA Platform
 WinCC Professional
 WinCC 7
 WinCC Open Architecture
(OA)
 Case Studies
 Questions

4. Presenter Info
Kristie Shea
Senior Project Engineer
Siemens Certified Professional
Certified WinCC OA Engineer
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Mathematics (Applied)
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
With DMC since 2006

5. DMC Company Profile
Industries Served:
Automotive
Chemical and Food
Processing
Electronics/Semiconductor
Hydraulics
Laboratory Testing
Machine Tool
Material Handling
Metal Converting
Packaging
Pharmaceutical
Printing & Textiles
Established in 1996, offices in Chicago, Boston &
Denver & customers throughout the world
employees & growing
70+

6. Areas of Expertise

7. MANUFACTURING
AUTOMATION & INTELLIGENCE
PLC Programming
Motion Control
Engineering &
Servo Systems
HMI & SCADA
Expertise
Intelligent Data
& Web Based
Systems
Vision Inspection
Expertise
Robotics

8. TEST & MEASUREMENT AUTOMATION
NI FPGA
LabVIEW
Development
Test Stand Design
Machine Vision
Data Analysis &
Reporting
NI Real-Time

9. CUSTOM SOFTWARE
& HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT
PC Application
Development
Product
Development
Web Application,
iOS, Android &
App Development
Embedded
Design &
Programming
SDK, API
& Driver
Development
Database Systems

10. MICROSOFT CONSULTING SERVICES
10
10
5
5
INDIVIDUAL
CERTIFICATIONS

11. Selecting a SCADA Platform

12. Siemens HMI software portfolio
HMI
WinCC OA
WinCC V7
WinCC V13
Professional
WinCC V13
Advanced
WinCC V13
Comfort
WinCC V13
Basic
SCADA-SW
HMI-SW in TIA Portal
Applicationcomplexity

13. Siemens SCADA software portfolio
WinCC Open
Architecture
WinCC V7
Standard process
visualization for
established
markets
Flexible system for software
OEMs and infrastructure
applications
Standard system for
universal use through-out
all established industries
WinCC V13
(TIA Portal)
Product for new customers
with scope on machine
level low end demand
Applicationcomplexity
Infrastructure &
Software OEMs
HMI for new
customers

14. So, which SCADA Platform should I use?
WinCC in TIA Portal WinCC WinCC OA
Professional Runtime V7.2 Open Architecture
HMI for new customers Product for established
markets for Automotive & F&B
Infrastructure & Software
OEM
Product for customers with
scope on machine level low
end demand
Standard system for universal
use through-out all established
industry segments
Flexible system for software
OEMs and infrastructure
applications
Greater Application & Network Complexity

15. WinCC
Professional
 20-30% of the market –
Integrated into TIA Portal
 Smaller Scale –
but requirements beyond
WinCC Advanced
 Machine Builders –
more singular applications
 Good solution for pure
Siemens customers
(TIA portal concept)

16. WinCC Professional – Case Study

17. WinCC Professional – Case Study
Machine Control – Expander
 Motivation:
 User configurable trending
 Data collection
 Recipe database
 Solution Includes:
• WinCC Professional screens
• SQL database
• Web based recipe editor
• Logging for data collection
• Microsoft Reporting Services

18. WinCC 7
50-60% of the market
Full availability of extra features:
 Process Historian
 Information Server
 Performance Monitor
 Line Monitoring System
(LMS) – June 2014
 Multiple clients, multiple
databases, reporting, trending,
etc.

19. WinCC – Case Study
Redundant SCADA system for Train Tunnel Ventilation
 Siemens WinCC 6
 Siemens S7-400H
Redundant PLC
 Siemens S7-300
 Modbus TCP

20. WinCC OA
(Open
Architecture)
 20-30% of the market
 High speed communication
requirements
 Distributed, redundancy
requirements
 Complex applications
 Large amounts of IO
 PLC Platform Independent
WinCC OA

21. Background
 Started in Europe
 5000 installations
all over the world
 Entered into US market
~ 3 years ago
WinCC OA

22. Main Features

23. Extra Features

24. Key
Strengths
Object Oriented
Open architecture
Highly customizable,
even the engineering tools
Distribution and redundancy
are built-in
Multi-user development
SVN
WinCC OA

25. 2 Different Implementations
Machine Control Solution
Distributed System
Case Studies

26. Machine Control Solution

27. Project Requirements
WinCCOA
 High Speed HMI to PLC
communication
 Complex scripting to
handle custom recipe
solution
 Many specific user
experience requirements

28. Created reusable objects
Troubleshooting/configuration
Motor control
Etc.
Server side scripting
All recipe handling functionality
Utility functions
The
Solution

29. Lessons
Learned
Focus on Para first!

30. Customer Benefits
Reduced Cycle Time
UNEXPECTED: Able to remove
full heating cycle from sequence
Simplified Architecture and Solution
Eliminated external DLLs and
custom ActiveX components
Code had been developed over
long period of time. Multiple
developers – multiple styles!

31. Distributed System Solution

32. Distributed System
HQ
ClientClient
Client

33. Project Requirements
 At Company HQ: Monitor Faults,
Track Performance, etc.
 Local Control for operator
 Local Data Collection (with backup
at HQ)
 Web-based access
 Integrating 250 existing systems

34. Motivation for Change
 Current Solution
 Completely Custom
 Upgrading and Maintaining is work
 Regional requirements restrict sales
until new features are added
 Proposed Solution
 Proven platform
 Maintaining/Upgrading off-the-shelf
solution cheaper over time
 New features and added benefits
will come with new solution

35. The
Solution
 Phased approach
 Customer Screens
 P&ID based screens,
Trending
 HQ Screens
 Remote site monitoring
 Local data collection – buffered
to reduce chance of data loss
 Configuration Tools
 Our customer can quickly
create new sites in system –
HQ and at their customer
Future:
 GIS Viewer
 Ultralight Client

36. Lessons
Learned
Many routes project can take
Customer doesn’t always
know what they want because
they don’t know what they
can get!
Setup Objects correctly the
first time
Model replicated many times
across the distributed system!

37. Project Benefits
For the customer…
Increased visibility to systems
Easier troubleshooting
Increased tracking of
performance
Reduced traffic – sites report
rather than polling
General benefit…
Architecture can be used with
many applications.
Decreases cost to customers
when reusable models and
code are easily available

38. Recap
 Selecting the right platform
 WinCC Professional
 TIA Portal
 WinCC 7
 Standard system, universal
use
 WinCC OA
 Complex Applications

39. Questions?

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Kristie Shea Kristie.Shea@dmcinfo.com
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