SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system

Control of material transport
with SIMATIC Route Control
Thanks to its modularity and 3-step scalability (up to 30, 100
or 300 simultaneous material transports), SIMATIC Route Control
can be flexibly adapted to various plants sizes and architectures
(single-user/multi-user systems).
Route Control clients and OS clients
Engineering
System
OS-LAN
Route
Control
server
OS
server
SIMATIC Route Control (RC) expands the SIMATIC PCS 7 process
control system by a tool for the configuration, control,
monitoring and diagnostics of material transport in pipeline
networks. It is not specialized on any particular industry.
With SIMATIC Route Control, users of SIMATIC PCS 7 are capable
of automating not only their production processes and associated
warehouses but also the material transport linking
both areas.
SIMATIC Route Control can handle complex networks as well
as simple transport routes. In particular, SIMATIC Route Control
is predestined for plants with a multitude of complex
route combinations or extensive tank farms such as are found
above all in the chemical, petrochemical and food and drinks
industries.
Preferred applications:
■ Plants in the medium and high capacity range with an extensive
route/pipeline network
■ Frequent conversions and extensions of the transport network
incl. actuators and sensors
■ Transport routes with high flexibility:
- Regularly changing materials
- Dynamic selection of the origin and destination of the
material transport (incl. reversing of direction on bidirectional
transport routes)
- Numerous simultaneous material transports
- Plant projects in combination with SIMATIC BATCH
Modular architecture
SIMATIC Route Control is represented by the following software
modules:
■ Route Control Engineering (component of the SIMATIC
PCS 7 engineering system)
■ Route Control Server
■ Route Control Center (RCC)
Plant bus
Automation
systems
SIMATIC PCS 7 multi-user system with SIMATIC Route Control
Integration in SIMATIC PCS 7
The Route Control Engineering software, consisting of engineering
tool, wizard and block library, is concentrated together
with the engineering tools of the SIMATIC PCS 7 process
control system in the central engineering system.
For small plants, SIMATIC Route Control can be installed either
alone or together with the OS software on a single station system.
Distributed multi-user systems with client/server architecture,
expandable with up to 32 clients per server, are typical
for the automation of material transport with SIMATIC
Route Control.
SIMATIC PCS 7 supports multi-user systems with up to 12 servers/pairs
of servers. In the case of multi-user systems with
small quantity frameworks, it is possible to operate the Route
Control Server, Batch server and OS server on shared basic
hardware. However, availability will be higher and performance
better if they are installed on separate server hardware,
which can also be redundant as an option.
The Route Control client is represented by the Route Control
Center (RCC). The RCC can be installed on an OS client, a Batch
client or separate client hardware.
The graded user privileges for engineering, operation and
maintenance personnel are integrated into the user administration
with SIMATIC Logon.
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