Software for Basic HMI - Panel based

Visualization engineering inside the TIA Portal

The WinCC Engineering Software includes innovative engineering tools for the end-to-end configuration of all SIMATIC  HMI devices and is available in a number of versions differentiated by price and performance. They are based on each other and are optimally tailored to the individual classes of operator panel. The larger software package always includes the configuration options of the smaller package. As of WinCC Comfort, it is possible to upgrade to the larger packages by means of PowerPacks.

Perfect interaction in the TIA Portal Engineering Framework

For the first time, the TIA Portal combines the engineering systems for the diverse automation tasks. The shared framework, uniform interface, and the same type of configuration of comparable automation tasks ensures a short familiarization period with a high recognition value.

For decades, the development of automation software was aimed at more functionality and more efficiency. Engineering software was developed to the point where it became a highly specialized, tailored tool for a given task. Only with the increasing importance of software ergonomics did software developers begin to look beyond their own tool and begin to include the approaches of other developers with regard to user interfaces in their considerations. The look and feel of the software products also became more uniform under the influence of office software.

More transparency for the production

To be able to meet growing requirements, the visualization must be expandable at any time without causing technology incompatibilities or requiring completely new configurations. Investment protection is a top priority. WinCC provides the required integrated scalability, from the small single-user solution with panels to the client/server solution.

The integrated runtime modules of Basic and Comfort Panels

With SIMATIC HMI operator devices, the runtime software gives you different HMI functionality and performance profiles depending on the equipments hardware.