Teknik Workshop

Unified Comfort Panel V18

SIMATIC WinCC Unified V18
System overview vs. existing portfolio

90° 25
Platforms

SIMATIC HMI SIMATIC WinCC Unified

WinCC Unified Clients Edge
Unified Comfort &
View of Things
Unified Comfort PRO1

Unified Comfort Panels S7-1500 PC

WinCC Unified V18

Engineering Advanced
Comfort VoT Professional
in TIA Portal
 !

Efficient
Standardization Engineering Automated Engineering Diagnostics

Operational concepts Audit & Reporting

RFID Login SIMATIC WinCC Unified V18 Parameter Control

Clients Functional Extension Energy Management PM Addons

 °
° Show more details,
based on zoom factor
Panning Zooming Custom Property Favorites ProDiag

RFID
Login
WinCC Unified V18 310
Audit Viewer
V18
Customized Screens
for Parameter Control
Hundreds of extensions and
GraphQL improvements to discover

Reduce Carbon footprint

with Energy Suite
Nesting of Faceplates License System Diagnosis Control
for better Standardization Packages with Matrix View
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Innovations leads to advantage

Making Unified Comfort Panel a compelling argument

• Significant increase of performance and system limits

• Smoother operation with multitouch (2 Hand) and gesture detection
• More applications preinstalled on the device
• Extensibility by apps using Industrial Edge
• Design and usability:
• Custom Web Controls
• Static and dynamic SVG graphics
• Increased functionality in controls
• Screen window technology
• Dynamization of objects
• Advanced scripting with Java Script
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Portfolio

Comfort Panels Unified Comfort Panels

12 devices (Key and touch) 6 devices (Multitouch)
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Multitouch from 7" to 22"

MTP 700 MTP 1000 MTP 1200 MTP 1500 MTP 1900 MTP 2200
800 x 480 1,280 x 800 1,280 x 800 1,366 x 768 1,920 x 1,080 1,920 x 1,080
7.0" 10.1" 12.1" 15.6" 18.5" 21.5"

MTP = Multi-Touch Panel

SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Resolution and mounting compatibility
Comfort Panel

4.3" 7.0" 9.0" 12.1" 15.4" 18.5" 21.5"

480 x 272 800 x 480 800 x 480 1,280 x 800 1,280 x 800 1,366 x 768 1,920 x 1,080
Unified Comfort Panel

7.0" 9" →10.1" 12.1" 15.6" 18.5" 21.5"

800 x 480 1,280 x 800 1,280 x 800 1,366 x 768 1,920 x 1,080 1,920 x 1,080

Enlarge Mounting Mounting Mounting

Cut-Out frame frame frame
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Increased system performance

Comfort Panel Unified Comfort Panel

7 – 12"/15 – 22" 7 – 12"/15 – 22"

PLC-Connections 8 16

Tags 2,048 / 4,096 8,000 Increased quantity structure

Alarms 4,000 / 6,000 9,000 from 7" to 22"
Logs 50 50

Logging Tags 2,048 5,000 Doubled quantity structure

Scripts 100 / 200 600 compared to Comfort Panel
Trends 300 / 400 600

Trends per Trend Control 8 20

Differentiation only for
Text-/Graphic list 500 750
tags and objects per screen
Screens 500 / 750 1,200

- Objects per screen 400 / 600 800 / 1,200

- Tags per screen 400 600 / 800

SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Optimized usability with Multitouch gestures

Intuitive operation for industrial applications

• Usability is similar to smartphones
• Modern design with new robust hardened glass front
• Glove operation
• Anti-reflective and brilliant glass for better readability
• Detection of fault operations e.g., heel of hand
• High electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)

Gestures and Multitouch

• Gesture detection control to define actions
e.g., swipe gesture for screen change
• Zooming and panning for more details
• Scroll
• 2-Hand Operation
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Glove operation

Support of commercial work gloves

• UVEX tested gloves (link):
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Connectivity

2 Port PROFINET Switch

1 IP address 100 Mbit

1 Port Ethernet
1 IP address 100 Mbit/1 Gbit

Serial
(422, 485) to support 3rd party PLCs

4x USB 3.0
Support of USB Hardware e.g., printer,
2x SD-Card
Data card for files, logs and customer data
System card for automatic backup
Reset Button
Set device to reset mode
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Interfaces

Integrated Switch X1 Gigabit Interface X2

2 Ports 1 Ports
• S7/S7+ Communication • Project download and Firmware
• MRP / HSYNC Update via Ethernet
• PN Basic Services • Sm@rtServer (VNC) Access
(assign name, IP,..) • Web Browser
• Project Download • Network Access
• NTP, Unified Collaboration, • Edge Management and Apps
Internet access, • Integrated 3rd Party PLC
Sm@rtClient/Sm@rtServer, PROFINET ETHERNET
(e.g. Mitsubishi, Allen-Bradley)
Industrial Edge

Full connectivity for both ethernet interfaces

SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Completely new designed control panel

• New look for the Control Panel - optimized for touch devices
• User has only access to control panel UI – not operating system UI
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Increased flexibility by openness

TIA Portal Openness Application Openness

• Enables automated • Preinstalled applications
engineering for Panel and • Siemens Industrial Edge
PC-Systems to expand the standard
functionality

Runtime Openness Hardware Openness

• Local access • More flexibility
to HMI Runtime Tags with ready to use
via OpenPipe USB hardware
• Custom Web Controls e.g., printer
for more flexibility Supported Printer
(Operating Instructions)
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Pre-Installed Applications

Preinstalled and ready to use applications

• Web browser: Firefox
• Media Player: VLC Media Player
• Office Software: Libre Office
• PDF Viewer: Okular

Start applications from Runtime

using system functions or control panel

Switch between Runtime and Apps

with the new taskbar
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Openness to add applications using Edge technology

Expand the standard functionality

via Edge Apps

• Siemens or others can provide applications

• Access to WinCC Unified Online Tags using
OpenPipe interface

• Device Managed Edge 1)

Apps can be managed directly on the device

• Central Managed Edge

Apps can be managed centrally via Edge
Management System

Note: Edge applications can be used on all Unified Comfort Panels.

1 Option can be ordered via license

SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
fo “Op on+” – now integrated as standard

System and diagnostics information

• Display and modify IP addresses in Runtime
• Display panel type, MFLB, serial number, firmware and
TIA Portal version

Security
• Activation and deactivation of USB, SD card
Included functionalities • Activation and deactivation of network interfaces
(fo “Op on+”) • Uninstallation of all programs possible
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
System architecture

Openpipe

Control Panel Project

Applications e.g.,
EDGE mgmt.

EDGE App

EDGE App

EDGE App

VLC, Chrome
EDGE RT Device Model HMI RT

Operation System
Hardware
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Device managed Edge concept

Enable Edge functionality Device managed Edge App management

Directly in control panel Web application running on the panel Manage apps locally

• Edge Apps resources are limited regarding processor and memory usage
• Resources are reserved for WinCC Unified Runtime to ensure best performance
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Unified options

… scalable from operator panel to control center

… xp n bl of v y ppl c on

… on p s b ckbon

…w p ov n n n n n TI o l
 V18 NEW

SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels

User Management – local RFID Authentication Unified Comfort Panel PC

local RFID Authentication for HMI Unified PC

Local User Management Local Web Client Runtime
+
PM-LOGON ➢ Connect RFID Reader to HMI Unified PC: All PM-LOGON supported
Runtime RFID Readers
➢ Assign cards with PM-LOGON Configurator
➢ Authenticate: State full & state less according to configuration,
push card to reader, Login w/wo additional PIN
UMC (Ring)
Server + Local RFID Authentication for HMI Unified
PM-LOGON
Server Comfort Panel
➢ Connect RFID Readers to HMI Unified Comfort Panel:
Siemens RF1040R, RF1060R, RF1070R
➢ Global (PM-LOGON license required):
▪ Install and configure PM-LOGON Server & Assign cards
with PM-LOGON Configurator
▪ State full & state less according to configuration and reader
type, Login w/wo additional PIN
Local User Management Central User Management
 Standard &
Neutral Design

Optional Extension Unit Operator Controls Multi-Touch

Mounting option
for pedestal

Accessories
are compatible
Industrial
Certifications Edge enabled

IP65 All-around
Easy access to all
Hardware interfaces
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort PRO

”- ,5”
Mounting option Brilliant & Durable Display Industrial Encrypted
for supporting arm Glass Front Operating System Communication
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panel PRO

Configurable with Expected Release Equal price level to Planned device

WinCC Unified under Date: end Q2/23 Comfort PRO device versions:
TIA V18 (depends on delivery planned 12’’, 1 ’’, 1 ’’, 22’’
situation)

Siemens & Neutral Mounting types: Compatible to RFID via external RFID
front planned Support arm, existing Extension reader (in preparation
Central point, Units V18)
Pedestal
 c

Certified Certified Multi-Touch

c
Fraunhofer Tested Device
IP96k
Cut-Out compatible to
Protection Unified Comfort Standard

Engineering compatible to Standard &

Unified Comfort Standard Neutral Design
Industrial Edge
SIMATIC HMI enabled
Unified Comfort Hygienic

7”- .5”
Glass Splinter Guard Brilliant & Durable Display Industrial Encrypted
Protective Housing IK10+ Glass Front Operating System Communication
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Additional certificates

Certificates are available (SIOS)

Hazardous Locations Marine / Shipping

Change over from “old” MLFB -0AX0 → to “new” MLFB -0AX1 is done

“old” MLFB will reach M 00/ 10 in 07/2022

SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Engineering System and Simulation

As of TIA Portal V18 the WinCC Unified PC Runtime Simulation is

v l bl v DVD „SIM TIC nCC Un f C Run V 8“.
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Note Panel images – V18

As of WinCC Unified V18, the image for updating the firmware

of Unified Comfort Panels is not included in the package.

Download Image File (SIOS)

SIMATIC WinCC Unified V18
Engineering Packages

WinCC Unified
Comfort

WinCC Unified Online Software

Package (DVD)
ES V18 Delivery (OSD)
WinCC Unified
WinCC Unified
PC 10k (10.000) 6AV2151-0XB01-8AA5 6AV2151-0XB01-8LA5
Comfort ES

WinCC Unified PC
6AV2153-2FB01-8AA5 6AV2153-2FB01-8LA5
(10k) ES
WinCC Unified
PC 100k (100.000 ) WinCC Unified PC
6AV2153-2GB01-8AA5 6AV2153-2GB01-8LA5
(100k) ES

WinCC Unified PC
6AV2153-0XB01-8AA5 6AV2153-0XB01-8LA5
WinCC Unified (Max) ES
PC (max)
SIMATIC WinCC Unified V18
License Compatibility Engineering - Existing customers

WinCC (TIA Portal) V18 WinCC Unified (TIA Portal) V18

Engineering System Comfort WinCC WinCC RT Unified Unified
valid for… Panels RT Adv. Prof. Comfort Panels PC Runtime
WinCC Prof. (max) (max.) (100k)

WinCC Prof. (4k) (4k) (10k)

WinCC Prof.(512) (512) (10k)

WinCC Advanced (10k)

WinCC Comfort

Existing customers with WinCC (TIA Portal):

The license of WinCC (TIA Portal) is also valid for engineering using WinCC Unified (TIA Portal).
SIMATIC WinCC Unified V18
Upgrading

Upgrade Packages

TIAP Engineering System

V17 WinCC Unified PC RT base

Incl. WinCC Unified Parameter Control (Unified PC), WinCC Unified Report
Execution, WinCC Unified Collaboration, WinCC Unified Audit Basis
V18
WinCC Unified Database Storage

WinCC Unified PI options

SIMATIC WinCC Unified V18
Software Update Service (SUS)

WinCC Unified
Package (DVD) Online Software Delivery (OSD)
Software Update Service (SUS)
The SUS
WinCC Unified Comfort n.a. 6AV2151-0XB00-0LY5 contract
can be
WinCC Unified PC (10k) ES n.a. 6AV2153-2FB00-0LY5 adapted
via SUS
WinCC Unified PC (100k) ES n.a. 6AV2153-2GB00-0LY5
Powerpack.

WinCC Unified PC (Max) ES n.a. 6AV2153-0XB00-0LY5

V17 V18
SIMATIC WinCC Unified V18
Upgrade Packages

WinCC Unified
Package (DVD) Online Software Delivery (OSD)
Upgrades V16..V18

WinCC Unified Comfort 6AV2151-0XB31-8AA5 6AV2151-0XB31-8LA5

WinCC Unified PC (10k) ES 6AV2153-2FB31-8AA5 6AV2153-2FB31-8LA5

WinCC Unified PC (100k) ES 6AV2153-2GB31-8AA5 6AV2153-2GB31-8LA5

WinCC Unified PC (Max) ES 6AV2153-0XB31-8AA5 6AV2153-0XB31-8LA5

V16 V17 V18

 HMI Unified Comfort Panel
HMI Unified Comfort
Client Pricing V18

Remote Client Remote Client

Operate Monitor

Max. 3 external clients in total

NEW WinCC Unified Client Panel Operate (1) *6AV2151-1JW00-0LB0 900,00 EUR

NEW WinCC Unified Client Operate (5x1) Panel *6AV2157-5JV00-0LB0 3.700,00 EUR

NEW WinCC Unified Client Panel Monitor (1) *6AV2151-1JM00-0LB0 300,00 EUR

Packages available via Online Software Delivery (OSD) and Packages

* List Prices for OSD versions

WinCC Unified View of Things
Customer value

View of Things (VoT)

using WinCC Unified technology for automated generating
web screen running directly on PLC Web Server

… simple configuration instead of web programming

… consistency through same screen elements
which are supported for PLC
… using one engineering environment - TIA Portal
… directly integrated in the PLC node
(no WinCC Unified installation needed)
WinCC Unified View of Things
Functionality

Unified View of Things Unified RT (Unified Comfort Panel or Unified PC)

Basis / • B s c obj c s” (L n , c cl , ...) • Run func on l y ( l n , Lo n , …)

Screen • “El n s” (I/O f l , bu on, u , ...) • Faceplates
Elements
• “G p cs”/“Dyn. w s” (p c u s, cons, svg, …) • “Con ols” ( l -, TrendControl, ...)
• Using screen windows • “My con ols” ( . . Cus o w b con ol)
• Maximum number of 10 screens • Resource lists (Text & graphic lists), symbolic I/O field
• Maximum number of 100 tags • WinCC Unified options (PaCo, u , …)

Data • Direct tag connection • Full / Global scripting

Connection • Screen change • Full set of system functions
/ Dynamics
• System Function (limited set)
• Scripting in screens (basic functionality)

Users • User management of PLC web server • Screen item access rights
• Local or central user management for WinCC Unified
WinCC Unified View of Things
Preconditions and Licensing

Preconditions Licensing
• Software: • WinCC Engineering License is required
TIA Portal V17: STEP 7 Professional • WinCC Unified ES
(contains VoT Features) (minimal WinCC Unified Comfort ES)
• PLCs: • Runtime License: planned for further enhancements
All SIMATIC S7-1500 standard systems
(incl. ET200SP CPU, Failsafe, T-CPU)
PLCSim Advanced V4.0 is also supported
• Firmware: Min. FW 2.9
Performance
• Performance and quantity structure is
depending on PLC and client device resources
 V18 NEW

WinCC Unified View of Things

View of Things

Highlights of View of Things Efficient engineering Use on more devices

VoT Application can be reused, VoT application is now also available for
this means copied and pasted ➢ SIMATIC Software Controller
➢ via SINUMERIK Toolbox V18 for
➢ from one device in the project to another SINUMERIK ONE and
capable device SINUMERIK Motion Control

➢ as mastercopy in the library and back to the

project to a capable device
SIMATIC WinCC Unified V18 Offline download to memory
View of Things card possible

Efficient Engineering for View of Things by improvement of the Unified Engineering

➢ Proportional resize of multiple screen objects by

➢ Transparent screens
Layer handling mouse
➢ Rename layers on device level ➢ Grid
➢ Shortcut keyboard keys for fast access at Runtime
➢ Configure layer visibility ➢ Autoscroll in screen editor
➢ Dynamization of Graphics for ScreenObjects
➢ Scripting: ➢ Multiline support in project text editor
➢ Automatic tag trigger for local scripts
➢ handling Layers ➢ Direct text input for Buttons and Labels
➢ Configurable default screen size
➢ GetClientInfo ➢ Favourites in property grid
➢ Change object color
 V18 NEW

WinCC Unified View of Things

View of Things for Software Controller

Firmware Version >= V21.9

Add a View of Things application to

SIMATIC S7-1500 Software Controller

Use View of Things on our S7-1500 Software Controllers

SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Preconditions – Operating System

Operating Systems
Configuration Engineering Runtime
(64-bit)
• Windows 10 Home Version 1909
Windows 10 Home • Windows 10 Home Version 2004
• Windows 10 Home Version 2009/20H2

• Windows 10 Pro Version 1909

Windows 10 Pro • Windows 10 Pro Version 2004
• Windows 10 Pro Version 2009/20H2

• Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1909

Windows 10
• Windows 10 Enterprise Version 2004
Enterprise
• Windows 10 Enterprise Version 2009/20H2

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise • Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB

(PC RT: Test for IPC) • Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC

Windows Server
• Windows Server 2016 Standard (Full Installation)
(for Unified PC RT with
• Windows Server 2019 Standard (Full Installation)
more than 5 Clients)
SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Preconditions

Operating
System (Client) Recommended Browser
Microsoft Windows • Google Chrome (Test focus)
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
Android • Google Chrome (Test focus)
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
iOS, Mac • Safari (Test focus)
• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Edge

FAQ: https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109757952
SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Preconditions

Reporting (Excel)

Excel 2016 – Build 16.0.6769 (32- or 64-Bit)

Available Online access to Excel (Online Office 365)

Virtualization

VMware ESXi 6.5 or higher

VMware Workstation 12.5.5 and VMware Player 12.5.5
VMware Workstation 15.0.2 and VMware Player 15.0.2 or higher
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 or higher
SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Preconditions

Anti Virus Software (released with WinCC PC Runtime systems)

Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.0

McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) 10.5

Trend Micro "Office Scan" 12.0

Kaspersky Endpoint Security 11.1

Windows Defender (as part of Windows operating systems)

Qihoo 360 "Safe Guard 11.5" + "Virus Scanner"

SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Overview - Connection to automation systems

Unified Comfort Panel PC

• Perfect integration of SIMATIC PLCs and
Software PLCs (TIA Portal)

• High number of connections for

PC systems, up to 128 PLCs
(>10 with SIMATIC NET Softnet-IE license)

• Increased number of connections

Native 3rd Party1 S7-1200/1500 S7-300/400
for Panel systems, up to 16 PLCs
S7-1500 Software Controller PLCSIM/PLCSIM Advanced

1 Allen
Bradley EtherNet/IP, Mitsubishi iQR/iQF/MC TCP/IP, Omron Ethernet/IP
Communication driver Standard Modbus TCP/IP, OPC UA are integrated
• Full integration in simulation
→ Other Native 3rd Party1 communication via Channel Support Package (CSP) with PLCSIM and PLCSIM Advanced
(Entry-ID: 109779920)
SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Performance data

Number of connections
Connection type
Unified Comfort Panel WinCC Unified Runtime PC
S7-300/-400 16 128
S7-1200/-1500 16 128
Allen Bradley EtherNet/IP 8 8
Mitsubishi iQR/iQF/MC TCP/IP 8 8
Omron Ethernet/IP 8 8
Standard Modbus TCP/IP 8 8
SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels
Remote control

Synchronous Access Asynchronous Access

NEW
via app (VNC) via browser (web-client)

Remote
control
SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Server / Client – Overview – quantity structure

Server system Number of clients

HMI Unified Comfort Panel up to 3 web clients
WinCC Unified PC-station with single-user system (Windows 10) up to 5 web clients
WinCC Unified PC-station with windows server operating system up to 150 web clients

How many clients can be connected in parallel to my Unified system?

WebClient
Live Demo

LIVE DEMO 1

• Sm@rtClient ç lış sı
• WebClient ç lış sı
SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Configuration Manager

Adjust settings for

• Web UI certificate
• Certificates of the OPC UA server
• User Administration
• Storage location of log databases
• Password-protected download

​ nCC Un f ​– Configuration available after

installation of ​ nCC Un f ​ C Runtime
SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Unified Configuration
SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Unified Configuration
Use the configuration
downloaded from TIA
Portal

Use the configuration from

Runtime system settings

Configure the user management configuration that Runtime is to use

SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Unified Configuration
SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Installation – Usability Improvements

Additional Information's during configuration

SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Runtime Manager

Delete project

Add project from

Update list
offline transfer

Start with
options

Start project Stop project

SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Runtime Manager Settings

Secure transfer
password

autoscaling
behavior
language

Runtime Manager settings > General tab.

SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Runtime Manager Settings

autoscaling
deactivated

autoscaling
activated

Automatically adapt the size of HMI screens to the window size

of the browser in which a Runtime project is open.
SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Certificate Manager

Functions of the Certficate Manager:

• Create a Certificate Authority

• ​C n l c on of c f c s fo nCC Un f
devices in the network.
• ​Enc yp xpo of c f c s.
• ​I po n ns ll on of conf u c fc s
on a WinCC Unified device.

The Certificate Manager supports you in creating and distributing certificates

for WinCC Unified components that use encrypted communication.
SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Certificate Manager

Supported Certificates:

− ​ nCC Un f Run ( bs v (IIS))

− ​ nCC Un f O C U S v
− ​ nCC Un f O C U Expo
− ​ nCC Un f Coll bo on
− AuditTrail certificate

Each communication partner is assigned a unique certificate, which

is used for authentication and encryption.
SIMATIC WinCC Unified – Tools
Certificate Manager - Improvements
Visual Studio style -
Views are dockable and
pinable

V17 V18

Shows installed certificates

User can manage installed certificates

SIMATIC WinCC Unified System

Application Note/Example SIOS No:

SIMATIC WinCC Unified Tutorial Center (Videos) 109782433
TIA Portal Add-In Data 2 Unified 109770510
WinCC Unified Tag Simulator 109760641
WinCC Unified Demo projects 109776633
WinCC Unified Tips and Tricks for Scripting (JavaScript) 109758536
TIA Portal Library HMI Template Suite 91174767
Guide for switching to Unified Comfort Panels 109768002
Integrating user-defined controls into WinCC Unified (Custom Web Controls) 109779176
Getting Started Edge @ Unified Comfort Panel (Edge app Send Mail, MQTT, Nodered) 109778780
Energy Manager for Unified Comfort Panel 109781236
Performance Insight for Unified Comfort Panel 109780761
 WinCC Unified – V18

User Administration / UMC

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 User Administration
2 RF ID

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Local User Management
General Information

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Add, remove users, assign roles in TIA Portal
engineering and change passwords during
“Only qu l f
(Password) runtime
Function x x us s llow ”
WinCC Function x x
Unified Function x x x x
Function x x x
(Password)
Role
Role
Role
Role

Define user roles and function rights in TIA

Portal engineering to your demand for privacy and
integrity in terms of authentication and authorization

Protection against unauthorized access

of single objects or entire production units

Local user management: definition of users and function rights

during engineering

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Local User Management
Password policies

Set the password

complexity

You can change the password complexity in the security settings.

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Local User Management
Add Users

Add new local user

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Local User Management
Compilation warning

• At least 1 user with administration rights is

required to manage users at RT

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Local User Management
User-specific runtime rights

1. Add your own role

2. Select User-
specific RT rights

3. Create individual
User-specific RT
rights

The higher value of the maximum session timeout (user and role compared) prevails.

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Local User Management
Roles and function rights

1. Select one of
the new roles

2. Select the device 3. Select the function rights you

to which you want to need (multiple rights are possible!)
add function rights

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 Local User Management
Assign roles

1. Add your own 2. Add a password

local user

3. Assign one
or multiple roles

Only users with at least one assigned role are downloaded as well as
only roles with at least one assigned function right are downloaded.
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Local User Management
Automatic login in RT (local device)

1. Open the RT settings

2. Enable automatic login

and add a User

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Local User Management
Authorization

• Use the Authorization property of a screen object

to assign a function right which is needed for the
operation during Runtime
Assign a function
right to Authorization
• Dynamization of p op y‘ u o z on’ is not
possible

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Local User Management
Download

• The entire User management data in RT will be

overwritten by the users and roles defined in TIA
Portal engineering

Remove hook to overwrite

the user administration
data in runtime

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Local User Management
Authorization on Unified Comfort Panel

Without the correct authorization, a login pop-up window will be shown on panel

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Local User Management
Web UI

• The User profile is only reachable, if the

current user is equipped with
administration rights

• New users can be added

• New user can be assigned to a specific
role

• After downloading the TIA project again,

central added users which are not in the
TIA project will be deleted.

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Local User Management
Live Demo

LIVE DEMO 2

• Security Settings ös
• Yeni lokal us ’l ekleme (Admin, Monitor)
• Y n Rol oluş u (MyNewRole)
• User Spesific RT Rights oluş u (MyOwnRight)
• MyN wRol ’ RT Rights b ğl
• Us ’ Rol b ğl
• Authorization y k s f klı bu onl oluş u
• ShowControlPanel System Function
(Security.UserManagement)
 WinCC Unified – V18

Modern UI

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Modern UI
Add Device

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Downloading project data

In this box you can select a

delta or a full download if
applicable.

Select if you would like to

start RT when download is
finished or not.

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Support delta compile/download for data type and name changes of simple HMI tags

Now it is possible to use delta compile and download for data type and name changes of simple HMI tags

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Device handling – Change device

• You can use existing configurations for new devices

and optimize these configurations with little manual
effort.

• All data configured by you is retained in the

configuration data. This means you do not need to
copy individual objects of one device and paste
them to another.

WinCC Unified supports change device function between

PC-station and HMI Unified Comfort Panels.

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Device handling – Change device

After an HMI device has been replaced, you

should check:

• Appearance of configured screens

• Storage system settings

• Rename the device if necessary

In case of unsupported functions after a device change,

the compiler will report an error message.

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Screen resolution

Screen resolution will be

applicable only for newly
created screens.
Change default screen
resolution in runtime settings

Configure screen resolution from runtime settings

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Screen resolution

Resize to display will refer

size from RT settings

Configure screen resolution from runtime settings

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Resize screen

Objects out of range are not adjusted.

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Screen Size improvement

Now it is possible to use screens wit a resolution of 20000x20000

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Live demo

LIVE DEMO 3
1. Unified Comfort Panel ekle
2. Settings-Fit to Screen ös
3. Resize ç lış sı
4. UCP -> PC System c z ğ ş .

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Drag & Drop possibilities

Drag &Drop Screen events

• to existing Buttons

Drag & Drop tags to object

• To G u , Sl ,B ,R o bu on, …

Multi Drag & Drop of tags

• Create multiple IO fields

Drag & Drop graphics to objects

• To Buttons & Graphic view

Drag & Drop of tags to items

with process property

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Drag & Drop Screen

Drag & Drop of activate

screen event to existing
buttons

Creates a new button with screen change event

Drag a screen to a existing button adds the Screen change event instead of creating a new one

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Drag & Drop Graphics to Objects

Drag & Drop of

graphics to items
with graphic view
Drag&drop actions
• Text list: creates a text field with resource list
• Graphic list: creates a graphic view with
resource list
• Graphic: creates graphic view

Tip: Graphics can be also dragged from

windows explorer

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Find and replace text

Find and replace all texts of the current Editor

e.g. Screen or tags editor. Not project wide
search

Use wildcards.
* → for any number of characters
? → to leave out a single character

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Auto-Scrolling

Horizontal and Vertical auto scrolling in

screen editor via mouse and keyboard arrow
keys

Auto scrolling available in any screen editor

(Faceplates, Unified Comfort Panel,
View of Things)

Auto scrolling supported by editing screen

items (Resize Polygon or Polyline)

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Usability improvement with CTRL + drag

CTRL + drag with mouse

When copying an object with CTRL + drag the original object does not disappear anymore

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Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts

• Ctrl + A: select all objects

• Ctrl + Shift + A: select all objects from same type

Select object +
Ctrl + Shift + A
• Ctrl + drag + release: creates a copy of the
object

• Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V: creates a copy of the object

repeated execution of Ctrl + V pastes the object
depending on offset position of last pasted
Ctrl + drag
element
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Snap line

All objects do support

vertical snap lines
dragged near by

All objects do support

horizontal snap lines
dragged near by

Snap lines in screen editor help adjusting objects to each other

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Grid

Configure grid and snap mode

by using the Layout Taskcard
or the TIA Portal Settings

A grid is available for screen and faceplate editor.

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Tooltip in case of hovering over screen objects

Content type and object name

Preview with size and position

including snap to line

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Multi selection: Change size proportionally

Change size proportionally for all selected

screen items with the mouse

Proportional size adaptation is available in

any screen editor (Faceplates,
Unified Comfort Panel, View of Things)

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Mass operation: Change object color

Change object color dialogue

Change objects
color of the screen

Change color of object

Change quickly the color of multiple screen objects by ‘Change object color’ dialogue

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Live demo

LIVE DEMO 4
1. Slider, Gauge, IO/Field ekle
2. Process Value-Write Immediately öz ll ğ
3. Obj l T G b ğl (D & Drop)
4. Sayfa drag & drop
5. Çoklu T G & drop
6. Grafik list ös
7. CTRL F ös
8. Daire ve Kare ekle
9. CTRL+DR G, CTRL+S IFT+ ös
10. Change Object Color fonks yonu ös

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Misleading order of properties

V17 V18 V17 V18

Background - Color

Primary property Secondary property

Properties re-sorted to summarize properties which are belonging together

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Properties

Search for properties The property list can be sorted as follows:

by characters
Total number of dynamized
properties is displayed • Display of properties in alphabetical order

• Display of the properties grouped in categories

• Search Filter:
Filter for
− Search for all properties by characters
dynamization type
− Overview of used dynamizations
− Filter of different dynamizations

Tip: most important properties of an object can always be found

in the “General” category (list needs to be sorted by category)
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Property search and filter

Search for properties

by characters

Combine property
filter with
dynamization filter

Find relevant properties and dynamizations quickly

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Search property filter improvement

Search String Filter remains

on the new selected screen
item
History of the last 5 used
filters

Property search string remains during switching to another screen item

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Properties

Column for static Column for

values dynamization

Dynamic parameter
can be chosen

Almost all object properties can be dynamized. Tags, Scripts and depending on the property other objects
(resource list for example) can be used for dynamization.
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Properties

Contains the new value and

can be used in the script

Change method can be

dynamized via script only

Most of the object properties include change methods that will be executed by change of the
property value
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Improvements in Engineering

Highlight dynamics in the property list

Direct text input for buttons and text box

Inverse colors by multiselection

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Improvements in Engineering
V17 V17 Update 1

Set properties in case of a

multiselection, even if not all
screen items have this
properties

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Favorites for properties

Configure your own favorite properties

On the left, configurable property list for the user with important used properties.
On the right, Overview of the configured favorite properties

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Events

• The available events depend on the object which is

selected

• System functions or scripts can be triggered at

events

• Multiple system functions can be configured in a

function list

• Conversion of a function list to a script is possible

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Drag & Drop of objects into the function list

Tag in details view

Screens, tags and resource lists can

Screens in details be added to system functions via drag &
view drop from details view

Secondary property

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 NEW
Unified Comfort Panel PC
Modern UI
Hotkeys in control buttons

e.g. for alarm

acknowledgment

Hotkeys are unique

per screen

Add a Hotkey

Hotkeys are working on all control buttons.

Hotkeys (Same combination) are unique per screen

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Click through transparent Screen Window/Faceplate

Click on the button

Set BackFillPattern property to

"transparent"

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Texts

Change the font of multiple “text” objects.

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Multiline support

Insert line break direct in text Enter line break with

w “S IFT + ENTER” “CTRL + ENTER”
into text box detail view

Multiline text is supported in text boxes and buttons.

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Texts

• T „T x s“ b spl ys ll l n u f nc s n
a screen or depending on the selected object!

• All texts in all configured languages will be

displayed

Direct editing is • Direct editing, copy&paste actions are possible

possible

Tip: use the „ exts“ tab to edit texts of objects instead of using the property list
can save time as you do not need to search for the property
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Custom fonts

Create new object with font

property and edit the font All windows installed
locally fonts are available for
selection

Fonts configured in the engineering (TTF) are converted into web fonts and
both TrueType fonts and web fonts are downloaded to the runtime machine.
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Custom fonts

• Only fonts that based on TrueType-Fonts

(TTF) data can be used in TIA Portal.

• PostScript fonts and open type fonts that

contain PostScript data are not supported.

• It is important to install the font for all Users

Install for all users
• After the installation of a font a restart of TIA
Portal is necessary

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Change object references

What was replaced

Change object references

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Flashing snippet

Enable flashing
Flashing Rate:
- Fast
- Medium
- Slow

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Live Demo

LIVE DEMO 5

• Drag & Drop Slider, Gauge

• Snap lines by resizing and adding objects
• Show focus visual
• Handling layers
• Dynamizations

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Group Screen objects

To edit object
select Group
or
individual item

Group selected
items
Ambiguous when
group objects
contain deviating
static values

Change static
properties at once

Group multiple screen objects and handle them as one object in ES and RT

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Group Screen objects

Add selected items to remove items from the

the Group Group

Add and remove objects from the group is possible

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Edit group of screen objects

Doubleclick to edit
size, position
properties and
dynamization

Drag-and-drop
Edit grouped items in inside a group
multiselection possible to connect

Screen objects in a group can be edited easily

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Group in Faceplate type and Faceplate instance in group possible

Group faceplate instances

Group items inside a
with other items
faceplate type

Group of screen objects can be used in Faceplate types

Faceplate instances can be used in a group
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Live Demo

LIVE DEMO 6
• G upl öz ll ğ n ös
• Layerlardan grub l nı kl çık
• G up l nl ını k k üz nl

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Editor handling
2 Property handling
3 Groups
4 Dynamizations
5 Layers, Zoom & Decluttering

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Dynamization

Dynamization types:
Dynamization types depend
on the selected object
• Tag – Defines the property value depending on the
tag value
• Script – Defines the property value depending on
the return value
• Resource list – Defines the property value
depending on an entry from a text/graphic list
• Flashing – Defines that the property flashes in
configurable colors

Dynamics are used to change the properties of screen objects and screens
in runtime depending on another value.

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Dynamization

Select tag that will be

Select the linked to the dynamization
dynamization type

Select dynamization
settings

The object property is dynamized with a tag. The tag value

specifies the property value in runtime.

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Dynamization

Copy & Paste conditions of animation dialog for further screen objects.

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Dynamization

Script trigger
Column for static
values Column for
dynamization

Dynamic parameter
can be chosen

Almost all object properties can be dynamized.

Tags, Scripts and in some cases resource list, can be used for dynamization.
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Dynamization

Contains the value and can

be used in the script

Change method can be

dynamized via script only

Most of the object properties include change methods

that will be executed by change of the property value.
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Tag dynamization for graphic property in Screen items

Graphic property item can be dynamized by Tag

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Usability Improvements

Compiler
Showing a Red background with the minimum value
message
warning will appear if inputting an Integer with
values outside the limits or a String that
exceeds the length

Warnings are shown when ranges overlap or the lengths exceed

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IO Field feedback for wrong values

Current value
Valid for integer with values outside limits and
for strings that exceeds the length
Enter value outside limits

Red background and

deletion of the wrong value Entering wrong type values in an IO field is not
possible, the value inside the IO Field does not
change.

Operator gets feedback when entering a wrong value

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Simple dynamics – Bit mask (multiple bits)

Use bit mask to assign a property value to

each bit of a tag for dynamization

Static value is used if more

bits are true

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Value Converter with Expression

New Expression tab

Add Property

Expression configuration

Remove Property

Configure multiple expression using logical operators

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Supported expressions
Logical expressions Mathematical operators Bitwise operators
(AND, OR, NOT, XOR) (+ ,- ,> ,<, >=,<=, /, *) ( >>, &, ^, |, <<)
Bitwise operations are currently not
supported!
There is currently no validation in
engineering in case brackets are
used

• Combine multiple tags by logical mathematical operators always need

expressions brackets
• Combine multiple operations by Current restrictions:
logical operators • Combination of multiple tags

As soon as the first expression becomes true, further expressions will not be evaluated
If no expression returns true, the default value will be used

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Live Demo

LIVE DEMO 7
• IO Field feedback for wrong values
• Set an Expression to a screen object
• Symbolic IO Field with text and graphic
• Change object color
• Drag & Drop

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Output format

• You can combine the Output formats with free text

for units:
− {F2} m/s → 10.00 m/s
− “My T nk s {I} l l f ” → My Tank has 50 liter
left
• You can also combine the Output formats:
− Fo / “{D} {T}”
Select the output
format you need

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Language handling

Project languages There are two different language levels in WinCC:

• Project languages are all languages in which a
project will later be used.
• User interface language :During configuration, the
UI languages text in the WinCC menus and dialogs is displayed in
the user interface language.

To add a language to the user interface, it should be first added as a project language.

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Language handling

• In the "text" tab of the properties, a column is

displayed for each activated language.
• If the texts are not configured for each language,
the word "text" is displayed by default.
• S o cu s “C l + C” n “C l + V” suppo .

Adding languages must be done before starting adding any elements on the HMI.

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Language handling

Use system functions to change the language in

RT:
• Set Language: Enter the Microsoft Language-ID.
• Toggle Language: Will toggle between the enabled
UI languages .
• Info (Microsoft Language-ID):
− German 1031
− English 1033
− Chinese 2025

See Online help in chapter

„Visualize processes -> Visualize processes with Runtime Unified -> Runtime API -> Locale Ids…“.

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Live demo

LIVE DEMO 8

• Working with the Output Format

• Combine the Output format with free text to add
some units e.g. 152 kg
• Change the language

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Dynamic SVGs

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

for all resolutions without loss of quality

• Animate (dynamic) SVG files according to the

process state

• Ready to use industry library

with static and dynamic SVGs

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Dynamic SVGs

Condition could be a
range or a specific value

roperties that can be dynamized can be found under “Miscellaneous > Interface".

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Dynamic SVGs

SVG interface can be accessed via scripting or System Function.

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Live demo

LIVE DEMO 9

• Add a dynamic SVG

• Dynamize a property
• Test in Runtime

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Text & Graphic lists

Select text / Graphic

lists

Text and graphic lists

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Show default text- and graphics- for objects apart from Symbolic IO

Content type: Graphic and text

Content type: Graphic

Content type: Text Content type: Text

Dynamized with resource list

User will see already in ES what he engineered for RT

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Text & Graphic lists

Select the tag whose value

determines the text entry of
the text list

S l c „ sou c l s “
as dynamization

Select the list you

want to display in RT

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Formatted text with tags or text lists in screen items
Insert tag field into text list entry

Insert
parameter field Insert text list as field info into text list entry

Add dynamic information in the text of screen items

Users can configure text list field info

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Live demo

LIVE D E M O 10 in 10 min
• Create a new graphic list
• Add a graphic view to a screen and connect the
p c l s , us n n l “Bakery_Process”
• Download the Runtime
• Control the tag value and check the graphic list
entries

With which other objects can you use a text list?

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Screen Navigation

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Screen navigation
Device handling

• To create the screen layout screen windows are

used in WinCC Unified.
• This applies also to the Unified Comfort Panels
• Depending on the application, it may happen that
several screen windows are nested.
• The ChangeScreen system function can be used
to change the properties of the screen window
dynamically.
• Parameter: Screen name [Object]
• Parameter: Screen window path [Object, String].
More info for screen handling:
SIOS 109758536

To create the screen layout screen windows are used in WinCC Unified.

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HMI template suite wizard

First Navigation Sub- Navigation

Third Navigation Fourth Navigation

HMI Template suite Wizard offers you templates for screen navigation.

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ChangeScreen System Function

• Use as Screen window path parameter Base

screen Selection to change the screen

• Use as Screen window path parameter Screen

window item to change the screen in the same
hierarchy

• Use as Screen window path parameter String to

specify absolute/relative item path if item is not in
the same hierarchy

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Absolute / relative addressing

r Prefix Description
e
References the higher-level screen window (parent) in the
l ".."
a
context of the current screen window.
• Relative and absolute items paths are distinguished
References the own screen window (self).
t "." by the prefix of the item path.
i A screen item of the current screen window is referenced
v
"" without prefix.

e • The relative item path is specified starting from the

screen where the script is called.

a
• The absolute item path is specified starting from
b Prefix Description
s the "RootScreenWindow".
o References a screen window on the highest level, whose
"/" name must follow.
l
u References the screen window on the highest level in the
"~" own screen hierarchy.
t
e

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Screen Navigation
Example 1 - Adjacent screen windows
Main_screen

Screen_window_1 Navigation screen to

Screen_1
Open
Header navigation change content of the
window
Screen_window_2
Screen_window_2 Screen_window_4

Screen_3…..Screen_7 >

Button Screen_3
Main screen Header
Content Button Screen_4

Content
Button Screen_5

Button Screen_6
Footer
Screen_window_3

Screen_2
Navigation
Footer

(../Screen_window_2“)

The navigation window is a good example to use ChangeScreen system function.

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Example 1 – Close-by screen windows

Open the navigation window :

Main_screen

Screen_window_1
Screen_1
Open
Header navigation
window

Screen_window_2 Screen_window_4 Close the navigation window :

Screen_3…..Screen_7 >

Button Screen_3

Content Button Screen_4

Button Screen_5
Show the Screen_3 in the
Button Screen_6
Content window:
Screen_window_3

Screen_2
Footer

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 Show the Screen_4 in the Content
Screen Navigation window:
Example 2 - Higher-level screen windows
Main_screen

Screen_window_1
Screen_1
Open Main screen Header
Header navigation
window

Content Screen_4…..
Screen_window_2 Screen_window_4 Screen_7

Screen_3 >
Footer
Content
Screen_window_5 Button Screen_4

Screen_4…..Screen_7 Navigation
Button Screen_5

Button Screen_6

Button Screen_7
(“../Screen_window_2./Screen_window_5“)
Screen_window_3

Screen_2
or
Footer (“../Screen_window_2/Screen_window_5“)

The content of a screen window needs to be displayed via button on the higher-level screen window.

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Screen Navigation Main screen Header
Example 3 - Lower-level screen windows
Content Screen_4
Main_screen

Screen_window_1
Footer
Screen_1
Open
Header navigation
window
Navigation

Screen_window_2 Screen_window_4

Screen_3 >
( „ ~ /Screen_window_3“)
Content or
Screen_window_5 Button Screen_4

Screen_4 Access (“../../Screen_window_3“)

Screen_window_3 Button Screen_5

Button Screen_6
Main screen Header

Button Screen_7

Content Screen_4
Screen_window_3

Screen_2
Footer
Footer

Navigation

In this case the screen needs to be displayed via button, that is located on the lower-level screen window.

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Screen Navigation
Example 3 - Lower-level screen windows

Main_screen

Screen_window_1
Screen_1
Open
Show the Screen_1 in the Footer
Header navigation
window window:
Screen_window_2 Screen_window_4

Screen_3 >
Content
Screen_window_5 Button Screen_4

Screen_4 Access
Screen_window_3 Button Screen_5

Button Screen_6

Button Screen_7

Screen_window_3
Screen_2
Footer

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Screen Navigation
Live Demo

LIVE D E M O 11 in 15 min
Screen_Layout
Screen_window_Header • Create screens (Main screen, Header, Content1-2, Footer,
Screen_Header Navi)
• On the main screen add 4 screen windows
Screen_window_Content
• Use the buttons for the content change of the screen
Screen_content1 or Screen content2 w n ow “Con n ”. Use the system function
“ChangeScreen”.
• Add a new screen window for Navigation on the Main
Screen_window_Footer screen. Us sys func on “SetPropertyValue“ o

Screen_Footer
c n “V s bl ” p op y of sc n w n ow

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 WinCC Unified – V18

Multitouch, Layer

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Multitouch
Multitouch support and Touch Area

Unified Comfort Panel ✓ PC ✓ Gesture detection object to define

Touch area actions e.g. for screen change

Zooming and panning for more details,

e.g. trend control, web control and
document viewers

Scroll in lists e.g. Alarm Control

Two-hand operation Hold release

button with one finger and operate
an object with the second finger

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Multitouch
Two hand operation

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Fast and easy Engineering

• S R l s bu on „Expl c unlock“
for HMI screen and select screen items
which are relevant for secure operation

Protection against unintended operations

• Secure operation as the operator has to press

“R l s ” Bu on fo c c l sks . .
via IO-Field, Slider,..

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Two hand operation

Select button

Require and enable

unlock is only possible
in local screen context!

Define at screen properties which button will enable the explicit unlock.

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Multitouch
Two hand operation

Select property

Configure basic objects and elements which require explicit unlock.

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Multitouch
Layers

• The layers tab contains information about the

active layer and the visibility of all layers.

• Using layers, multiple objects can be combined

and edited together

• Using layers, multiple objects can be hidden and

displayed again when required

• Objects in a higher layer will overlap objects in

lower layers in Runtime

• Layers can not be directly accessed in Runtime

Multitouch
Layers

Indication of active
layer • a screen object is always assigned to one of the 32
layers.

• There is always an active layer in the screen.

• By default, newly inserted objects are in the

foreground of the active layer.

• To c v l y ,s l c ‘S o c v ’
command from the context menu of a layer.
Activation of layer

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Multitouch
Layers

In order to move objects

between layers, Drag&drop the object to
select the object the required layer

Drag and drop multiple objects is supported.

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Multitouch
Change layer visibility in Runtime

Change the layer visibility in

runtime

Check the Status of the

Layer is it invisible or visible

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 NEW

Multitouch
Zoom Screen (Ctrl + Scroll with the mouse)

Zoom to mouse position

Centre of zooming is current mouse position (compare to google maps)

This works for Screen and Screen windows

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 NEW

Multitouch
Default layer names

Each screen will use the

default layer names
Change default layer names
in runtime settings

Rename layers on device level

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 NEW

Multitouch
Zoom

Disable default visibility for single

layers for each Screen

Configure visibility of layer

depending on zoom factor

Invisible layers will not be loaded at startup / screen opening on the Client.
The Unified Server will handle the dynamization or script will execute farther

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 NEW

Multitouch
Screen Decluttering

Examples:
Range of zoom: MaximumZoom = 1.5 MinimumZoom = 1.0
Layer is hidden by Zoom higher 150% and lower 100%

Range of zoom: MaximumZoom = 8.0 MinimumZoom = 2.0

Layer is hidden only lower then 200% (800% is maximum)

Range of zoom: MaximumZoom = 3.0 MinimumZoom = 0.1

Layer is hidden only higher then 300% (10% is minimum)

Objects get automatic hidden if a Zoomlevel

is out of range. No refresh needed

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Multitouch
Live Demo

LIVE D E M O 12 in 15 min

• Add a Touch Area in your Screen

• Try to increase a tag by swiping
• convert system functions to scripting
• Two hand operation functionality

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 WinCC Unified – V18

DATA2UNIFED

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 WinCC Unified
Data2Unified Add-In

Convert your existing configuration

contents into WinCC Unified environ-
ment easily, without recreating configu-
rations from scratch.

Customer Benefits:
• No double efforts
• Reduced converting time

More information, the download and a

how-to video can be found via SIOS Entry
ID 109770510

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WinCC Unified
Data2Unified Add-In Target and motivation

➢ Converting most of the mass data (T s, l s, Lo s,…) from existing project into Unified.

➢ Several technical reasons prevent us from a providing a full conversion

• different scripting language (no translation from VBS → JS)
• Limited access to device data via TIA Portal Openness
• Screen templates (WinCC Comfort/Advanced) are no longer available and can not be replaced with
screen windows automatically
• new controls

100% project conversion will not be possible with Data2Unified

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 WinCC Unified Data2Unified
Add-in

Data2Unified Description

• TIA Portal Add-in

• Used for converting the mass data of your project into
a WinCC Unified project
• Automatic conversion of:
1 Screen objects of type "Basic objects"
2 Screens
3 Selected system functions on supported screen objects
4 Animations on the supported screen objects
5 Screen management
6 HMI Alarms
7 HMI tags, except UDT structures
Download/
8 Archives and archive tags Guide Link

• Conversion log is generated

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WinCC Unified
Data2Unified Add-In User Interface

The Data2Unified Add-In is …

• Directly available as TIA Add-In

• Based on ES Openness
• Updated regularly

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WinCC Unified
Data2Unified Preparation
The existing Comfort Panel project (in the TIA Portal) needs to be
prepared in order to achieve an optimal result of the conversion with the
tools. The necessary steps for this preparation are the following points:

1.- Adding the new Unified Comfort Panel

2.- Conversion of screen resolutions

3.- Check of special characters

4.- Preparation of screen objects

5.- Preparation of faceplates

6.- User management

7.- Cycles

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WinCC Unified - Panel Modernization @ SITRAIN access
Curriculum with 3 courses

Short description Content & learning objectives

Learn the methods for switching to the new Unified Comfort Panels. You will learn how to perform a number of conversion tasks using Data2Unified.

The differences, but also the similarities between Comfort Panels and Unified Comfort Panels will
be considered.

Modernization based on a concrete project with screencasts:

• Preparations on the project to be able to use Data2Unified efficiently.
• Installation & use of Data2Unified
• Manual project planning steps that are necessary after the use of Data2Unified on the project

Target group Prerequisites

• Programmer • Knowledge according to TIA-UWCC1 and
• Commissioning engineer TIA-UWCC2
Duration: ~ 2 hours Link: Modernization • Designer
• Maintenance staff
• Maintenance personnel
• Service personnel
• Operator
WinCC Unified – Panel Modernization @ SITRAIN access
Trial Campaign – One month free access

Get one month unlimited access to the curriculum and over 200 other web-based trainings on SITRAIN access:
1. View the WinCC Unified - Panel Modernization (Curriculum) on SITRAIN access.
2. Click on the login button in the top right corner.
3. Use your Online Support or iMall credentials to login (or register for a new account)
4. Type in the co „Unified_Modernization_Trial“ n click „Submit“

1 2

4
3
 Preparation Demo

LIVE D E M O 13
Demo project

1. Add the new Unified Comfort Panel

2. Conversion of screen resolutions

3. Check for special characters

4. Preparation of screen objects

5. Preparation of faceplates

6. User management

7. Cycles
TP900 TP1200 MTP1000

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 Data2Unified

Data2Unified Exercise Add-in

LIVE D E M O 14
Demo project

1. Install and activate the Add-in

2. Convert the demo project

3. Analyze Data2Unified log

4. Change the connection to the PLC in HMI

tags

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 WinCC Unified – V18

Libraries & Faceplates

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System functions in
Trend control
faceplate

Nested faceplates
(Faceplate in faceplate

Faceplates
Visualization

Alarm control

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Copy Faceplate GoTo library version Script modules as type
interface Dynamic SVG as type

Minimal required
runtime version

Library & Faceplates

Handling functions

Style preview

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 roperty interface ‘Graphic’ &
Event Interface
Multilingual text

Connect HMI Tags Interface Supports Array of

with Date/Time tags Simple tags
to the interface tag of
data type DateTime

Structured UDTs on
Faceplates
Interface Interfaces
(Including Type Struct)
Internal Tags UDTs containing arrays of UDT

Local tag
editor

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Faceplates
Faceplates types and Faceplate instances

Faceplate containers
are inserted in a
screen in order to
Faceplate type instantiate the
faceplate types

Configure once… …use multiple times

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Faceplates
Unified Faceplates as enclosed graphical objects

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Use the same Faceplates

for panel and PC systems using a Faceplate
container control

Standardized operation elements for flexible

reuse in all Unified devices and projects

Efficient operation window (popup)

for assets e.g., motor, pump
Create individual library templates (faceplate
types) with dynamic process connection

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 NEW

Faceplates
Dynamic SVG as Library types

New option for

DynamicSVG Types. Default
coolfanfront image. Can be
replaced with other dynamic SVG

User can use DynamicSVG Types inside Faceplates as well as in Screens of the Project

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Faceplates
Using a Graphic type

Open the Graphic

in MS Paint (not
Select graphic file possible for SVG)

If you change the Default graphic, it will be used for all languages.

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 NEW

Faceplates
Script Modules as library types

Script types can be imported

in scripts or selected in
function lists

User can use Script Types inside Scripts of Faceplates, other Script Types or the Project

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 NEW

Faceplates
Minimal require runtime version
It is not possible to use a
V18 Faceplate on a <V18
Runtime device

Faceplates only work on the Unified Runtime with an equal or higher version!

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 NEW

Faceplates
Minimal require runtime version

Duplicate to
change the
minimal target
device version

Overview of the
used version

Select the
minimum
version Select the new
minimal device
version

Handle faceplates with features which depend on a specific runtime version.

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 NEW

Faceplates
Handling

Selected version of type

New function go to library version

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 NEW

Faceplates
Support HMI UDT

New data type

Browse your HMI-UDT

The faceplate tag interface additionally supports HMI-UDTs.

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 NEW

Faceplates
Support of HMI data type
New data type

Browse your HMI-UDT

with V18 it is possible to use HMI data types in the faceplate tag interface

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 NEW

Faceplates
Tag interface – Support Array of UDT

UDT Structure
which
includes an
Array of UDT

Usage in the
Faceplate

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 NEW

Faceplates
Support of UDTs containing arrays of UDT & Structured UDTs on Interface (Including Type Struct)

Struct in a UDT

UDTs containing arrays of Struct in a Array of UDT Structured UDTs containing

UDT are supported via the type STRUCT are supported via
faceplate interface the faceplate interface

Nested UDTs with arrays are Nested UDTs are supported up to

supported a depth of 8 layers

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 NEW

Faceplates
Interface – Loc l T s & Sys func ons n F c pl & op y n f c ‘G p c’

Local tag
editor In order to
hand over a
multilingual
graphic to a
faceplate

Same as in Assign them to

Internal faceplate type tags are the screen the faceplate
not visible editor. interface

System functions can be configured inside faceplates in the event tab.

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 NEW

Faceplates
Support Multilingual text via Interface

. p op y ‘Mul l n u l x’
to interface
Multilingual text can be used in the interface

Connect a resource list with index to the

faceplate interface

2. Connect static text or a

resource list

Hand over a multilingual text via the faceplate interface

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 NEW

Faceplates
Copy Faceplate Interface

paste Interface

Copy Interface

It works with shortcuts ctrl+c & ctrl+v and via drag and drop too

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Faceplates
Working with instances

Drag & Drop the

Use the empty Faceplate Faceplate type directly to
container the Screen

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Faceplates
Replace Faceplates

Choose
Choose a new Faceplate
Faceplate
type
type and
and version
version

Cl ck on “R pl c yp ”

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Faceplates
Replace Faceplates

• Task: Replace all instances of one Faceplate

Type by instances of another Faceplate type.

• Efficient engineering: Us c n l “R pl c
yp ” func on. ll ns nc s w ll b c n .

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 NEW

Faceplates
Faceplate in Faceplate

M n f c pl ‘T nk’

Subordinated
f c pl ‘V lv ’

Subordinated
f c pl ‘Flow’

Build your nested faceplate with the feature ‘Faceplate in Faceplate’

and connect your sub-UDT to the subordinated faceplate

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 NEW

Faceplates
Faceplate in Faceplate – Engineering

2. Connect your interface

1. Add faceplate to your tags or local faceplate tags
faceplate by Drag & Drop or to the interface of the
faceplate container subordinated faceplate

Build your nested faceplate with the feature ‘Faceplate in Faceplate’

and connect your sub-UDT to the subordinated faceplate

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Faceplates
Faceplate Popups

Faceplate Popups

• Identical interfaces of icon and operation

window
• Popup is created dynamically at runtime.
No need to set placeholder objects.
• Faceplate interface is passed
„Snippet“ for the call through at runtime

Click to
open “D l”
details Faceplate

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Faceplates
Faceplate Popups

Independent windows:
Called Faceplate type with
… true = lifetime of PopUp is
the exact Version:
decoupled from the calling
FaceplateName_V_0_0_0
faceplate (it remains after a
screen change)

Visibility of Popup :
Position Title of the popup true = visible
(see next slide) false = invisible

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Faceplates
Faceplate Popups
220 px
220 px 50 px
50 px

220 px
50 px

Independent
Independent
windows
windows

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Faceplates
Screen object (Button) opens a faceplate in popup

• It is also possible to call Faceplates as

PopUp directly from the HMI screen (via button
for example).
• For the call of a Faceplate in a PopUp window
from a HMI screen a code snippet is available.
• The interface has to be manually connected in
the script.

Replace with
name and version
of the faceplate
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Faceplates
Parent Properties

In
In Runtime
Runtime you you
can
can see the the
object name in
object name in
the
the title of the
title of the
popup
popup

“ n ” you c n cc ss
the properties of the
Faceplate container.

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Faceplates
Faceplates container Properties - Window settings and Fit to size

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Faceplates
Close Faceplates instances with a separate button

Task:
Create a button for closing the faceplate
instance inside the faceplate type.

Advantage:
Faceplate instance is totally deleted.

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Faceplates
Differences between Faceplate.Close() and Faceplate.Parent.Visible = False

Faceplate is still existing

→ Scripts of Faceplate are still executed!
→ To many executed scripts can be problematic
Faceplate is not existing anymore after
execution. for performance

Set a faceplate only invisible, when it is used

furthermore!

→ Use Faceplate.Close() for deletion of the faceplate. Make invisible for further usage.

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Faceplates
Rotation of Faceplate Instances

Rotating of Faceplate Instances

Faceplate Instances can rotate like standard
screen item (Rotation)

Dynamize Rotation of Faceplate Instances

Rotation and Rotation Point can be dynamized
via Tag or Script

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 NEW

Faceplates
Trend Control in faceplate

Add the trend control

to your faceplate

Use interface tags or

local tags as data source

Configure the trend control in a faceplate

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 NEW

Faceplates
Alarm control in faceplate

1.Add the alarm control

to your faceplate

2.Use a configuration string in 3.Hand over the alarm

the property interface to hand filter as a string on the
over the filter via the interface faceplate instance

Configure the alarm control in a faceplate and hand over the alarm filter via the faceplate interface

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Faceplates
Live demo

LIVE D E M O 15
1. Create a Faceplate type

2. Create the tag & property

Interface and a visualization

3. Create Faceplate Instances

4. Connect the Instances

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Faceplates – Preview for styles
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

Select a Style for

preview

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Faceplates
Live Demo

LIVE D E M O 16

• Create a Faceplate in Faceplate

• HMIUDT
• Local Tag
• Graphic for Property interface

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 WinCC Unified – V18

Parameter Control

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 General Information
2 Engineering Workflow
3 Parameter Control settings
4 Recipe Screen

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Parameter Control
Handling and operation of machine or production parameters

Unified Comfort Panel PC

• Efficiency due to reuse of structural
definition of “Us D Typ s”
(PLC/HMI UDT) for parameter sets

• Central changeability of parameter

set types by using a new version of
PLC/HMI UDT from library

• Consistent bi-directional PLC/HMI transfer

of parameter sets (manually/automatically)

Extend parameters with unit of measurement.

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Parameter Control
Derive structure of Parameter Set Types from UDT

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Precondition – UDTs are already Add new Parameter set type Assign UDT as data type to Parameter
created and available in the library within project tree set type to derive structure from UDT

V17: Complex structure possible (UDT in UDT,

Arrays of simple data types)

Add structure tag to exchange Para- Configure properties e.g., Display Use Control tags for automatic ex-
1 meter sets between HMI and PLC 2 name, Unit of measurement 3 change between HMI and PLC (optional)

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Parameter Control
Complex data structures

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Engineering
Runtime

A Complex UDT can contain

multiple UDTs or Arrays

UI interactions with complex UDTs

in runtime

For complex UDTs as a parameter set type, all elements must exist under a top level UDT. Multiple UDT
instances in a DB can not be used as complex UDT for a parameter set.

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 General Information
2 Engineering Workflow
3 Parameter Control settings
4 Recipe Screen

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Parameter Control
Workflow

• You need a PLC- or HMI-UDT for your parameter set

1. UDT settings type
• The UDT needs to be in the library as type

2. HMI interface tag • Create an HMI tag that is connected to your DB

• Create a parameter set type and connect the PLC data

3. Parameter set type type
• Set additional information e.g. limits or the start value

• Parameter set ID → To change the parameter set

4. Configure control tags • Job ID → for automatically function e.g. read a
parameter set

• Add the parameter control

5. Parameter control
• Select a fix parameter set type (optional)

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Parameter Control
Workflow – 1. PLC data type

1. Creation of PLC
data types in PLC 2. Add the PLC data type to
the project library

3. Create a instance from

the UDT e.g. in a DB

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Parameter Control
Workflow – 1. HMI data type

1. Create a new type

2. Select HMI user data type

3. Select Unified

HMI User data types, work also with the Parameter control
(alternatively to PLC data type)

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Parameter Control
Workflow – 2. HMI interface tag

2. Connect the HMI tag with

1. Add a new HMI Tag
the UDT instance in the DB

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Parameter Control
Workflow – 3. Parameter set type

1. Add a new Parameter set

type 2. Connect the data type 3. Connect the data type
instance

4. Enter limits (optional)

5. Unit of measure (optional)

Storage location of Parameter set types can be local drives for PC Station or
USB-X61, USB-X62 or SD-X51 for Panel.

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Parameter Control
Workflow – 4. Control tags

Parameter ID is the ID of
an existing parameter set Automate handling via Job-ID:

• Read parameter set (ID: 6) from PLC

and store it in the parameter set memory
• Load parameter set (ID: 7) from storage
and write it to PLC
• Delete a parameter set (ID: 8)
from the parameter set memory

JobID control the

job e.g. write to • Is a job executed and it was successful the Value is
PLC set to: 0
• Otherwise the value is -1

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Parameter Control
Workflow – 5. Parameter Control

1. Place the Parameter

set control on the screen

3. Change the Editing

Mode, to define which
actions are allowed in
runtime (optional)
2. Select a fix parameter
set type (optional)

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Parameter Control
Live Demo

LIVE D E M O 17
• Create a UDT

• Create an HMI interface tag

• Configure a parameter set type

• Configure control tags

• Configure the Parameter control

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 General Information
2 Engineering Workflow
3 Parameter Control settings
4 Recipe Screen

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Parameter Control
Parameter Runtime Control

Parameter set type ID

Current parameter set type

Parameter set ID

Current parameter set

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Parameter Control
Parameter Runtime Control – handling create and save
Rename a
parameter set

Parameter ID can be
chosen freely. If it is
“S v s …”: s v empty the next free
Save changes
parameter set under number will be assigned
Creates a new a new name
Save changes
parameter set

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Parameter Control
Parameter Runtime Control – handling write and read from PLC

Write to PLC

Overwrite the current parament

read
Readfrom
fromtoPLC
PLC set or create a new

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Parameter Control
Parameter Runtime Control – handling import and export

Export parameter set

Import parameter set

Only .tsv is possible

(can be viewed via Excel)

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Parameter Control
Parameter Runtime Control – handling cancel and delete

Delete the selected

parameter set

Cancel the process

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Parameter Control
Parameter Runtime Control – export in Excel

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Parameter Control
Live Demo

LIVE D E M O 18
• Create new parameter sets

• Read and write from/to PLC

• Export the config to Excel

• Use the Job ID to read/write automatic

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 General Information
2 Engineering Workflow
3 Parameter Control settings
4 Recipe Screen

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 NEW

WinCC Unified V18

Parameter Control Unified Comfort Panel PC

Customized recipe screen upon user workflow

Create recipe screen with basic screen objects

(sliders, IO fields, buttons,..)

➢ Get Parameter Sets and Parameter Set Types via

scripting

➢ Scripting support of Parameter Control functionality

(CreateParameterSet, SaveParameterSet, LoadParameterSet,
DeleteParameterSet, RenameParameterSet, ReadParameterSet,
WriteParameterSet)

➢ Parameter set synchronization synchronize

parameter set between Parameter control

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 NEW

PaCo – Scripting improvements for recipe screen

Parameter control screen

• CreateParameterSet
• SaveParameterSet
• LoadParameterSet
• DeleteParameterSet
• RenameParameterSet
• ReadParameterSet
• WriteParameterSet
Parameter control view property
• CurrentParameterSetTypeID
• CurrentParameterSetID
Script function to get PST and PS names
• GetParameterSetTypeName
• GetParameterSetName
PACO Synchronization

User can now perform all the PaCo operations through scripting
Restriction: can not be used when having nested UDT as Parameter control type
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PaCo – Parameter set types configuration

et your HMI ag with cope “ ession local tag” in order to use it as “Edit tag” in the arameter set ype

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 WinCC Unified – V18

Alarming

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 Alarm Engineering
3 Display of Alarms
4 Reacting to Alarms

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Alarming
Overview

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Maximum process transparency due to a

configurable alarm system
based on IEC 62682

Availability of S7-1500 PLC- and HMI alarms

Alarm control for efficient handling e.g., filter, sort,

acknowledge, manually or via scripting

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Alarming
Overview

Support of S7-1500 PLC Alarms (Full-text) minimum

Graph alarm controller firmware V2.0 or higher:
• Program_Alarm
• ProDiag alarms
• S7 Graph alarms
• PLC system diagnostic alarms

ProDiag alarm
HMI alarms
• Bit alarms
Program Alarm • Analog alarms
• HMI System events

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Alarming
To edit the runtime alarm
Runtime Settings
settings, select
“Run s n s“ → Alarms Without Automatic
up you on‘
any alams!

WinCC Unified supports PLC

alarms only from S7-1500
controller with a firmware V2.0 or
higher

specify your own State

texts
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Alarming
Diagnostics Indicator

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Systemtag
@DiagnosticIndicatorState

Three dynamic SVGs are available to display

the status

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Alarming
New System alarms

After changes HW Configuration and

downloading the HMI, System
Notification will be shown on the
runtime

If the user tries to subscribe for more

than 150 % of the available PLC
resources an overload alarm will be
raised

User will be informed about misconfiguration and PLC overload

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System diagnostics control

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Diagnostics buffer of
PLC in TIA Portal
Online View

Diagnostics buffer of
PLC in WinCC
Unified Runtime

SystemDiagnostics
Control

Displays the PLC diagnostics buffer in runtime

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Alarming
System Diagnostics Control

Possible symbols for event

Split view to see more type (second column)
details when selecting a
message

Update the diagnostics buffer Navigate between connected

LC’s

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 NEW

Alarming
Control Matrix view

Matrix view

disconnected PLC

State of your connected PLCs and their underlying hardware modules in a matrix view

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Alarming
Alarm Control

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Free configurable alarm view

e.g., column order, toolbar buttons

Select alarms according to production unit or user

demand e.g., plant unit in technological hierarchy,
maintenance

Alarm control user interface for e.g., select time-

range, sort, filter, print, hide and lock,
acknowledgement

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 NEW

Alarm Control
Alarm control - Duration column

Duration block is only applicable to Pending

Alarm View, Logged View, Logged with
update view and Defined Alarm View.

Duration column is not shown by default.

Select duration as an alarm

text block For statistics view, duration column will always be
“0” as the statistics record is calculated for
multiple instances of an alarm.

Duration column displays how long it took to Acknowledge and Clear an Alarm.

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Alarming
Alarm control - Duration column

Duration column displays the duration of

Incoming and Acknowledged, Incoming and Outgoing in seconds.

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Alarm Control

at "Alarm source" you specify which alarms the alarm view

displays in runtime by default:
• "Not configured": The alarm view does not show any
alarms.
• "Pending alarms": The alarm view shows the currently
pending alarms.
• "Logged alarms": The alarm view shows the logged
alarms.
• "Logged alarms updated": The alarm view shows the
logged alarms that are updated at specified intervals.
• "Alarm definition": The alarm view shows all alarms
configured in the engineering system, regardless of
whether or not they have occurred.

Hint: settings can also be changed and configured in runtime, but in WinCC Unified the control does not
support persistency, so any changes in runtime will be reset again to engineering setting after a screen
change
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Filter in Engineering

• The display of alarms in the alarm control can be

filtered.

• A static value, a tag or a script can be configured

for the filter. This functions can be configured in
the alarm control in the "Screens" editor and in
Runtime.

• The filter can be created by all parameters, such

as ID, name, alarm class, priority, etc.

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Alarm Control

Shows active Shows archived Shows and updates

Acknowledgement Filter Sorting
alarms alarms archived alarms

Additional toolbar buttons can be activated in engineering

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Filter in Runtime

Create a new filter

criterion

The filters are not

persistence in
runtime!

To filter the alarms in Runtime, click

Alarming
Filter

Extended filter criteria

status text and additional texts 1-9

Output of the alarm status in a separate tag

Acknowledge bit alarms via control tag

Simple overview of alarms configured in arrays

Overview of the available system messages and

editing the system message texts

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System events editor

Display HMI
system events

Overview of all HMI system events

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System limits

Description Unified Comfort Panel WinCC Unified Runtime PC

Number of alarm classes 32 32
Number of bit alarms 9000 200000
Number of analog alarms 300 10000
Max. characters for an alarm 512 512
Max. number of alarm texts for an alarm 10 10
Max. number of process values for an alarm 10 10
Number of queued alarm events 750 Unlimited
Number of PLC alarms 160000 160000
Number of alarms for every second
- 20
(continuous load)
Number of alarms for every 10 seconds
- 8000
(alarm burst)

For details please see Online help

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Alarm classes

Configure the alarm log in case

you want to log the alarms

the higher the number the

more important the priority.
16 is the maximum

Define
Acknowledgement

Define Colors

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Alarm logging

Select alarm log

larms can’t be logged separate. It is only possible to add a complete larm class to the archive
Alarming
System events editor

Display HMI
system events

Translation to other
languages possible

If translation is not available for a selected language, the system events will be displayed in english

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Configuration of Alarms
Switch between
alarm editors

Add alarm text

Open HMI Alarms Choose a trigger

editor tag

Alarm configuration can also be done in HMI tags editor

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Configuration of Alarms

• For an alarm up to ten alarm texts: one alarm text

and up to nine additional texts can be configured

Insert a Parameter
field

• If required, output fields for displaying alarm

parameters in each alarm text can be inserted.

• Each alarm text contains up to 512 characters.

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Discrete alarms

Status tag can be used

to check the
acknowledgement state
of an alarm

Alarm state is
represented in Runtime
by the Status tag
Control tag can be
used to acknowledge
an alarm, e.g. from
PLC

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Alarm priority

Select an alarm class

the higher the number the

more important the priority
16 is the maximum

If the priority is 0. Then

the priority of the alarm
class applies
You can use the alarm
properties Origin & Area for
structuring the alarms

In Runtime you can sort and filter alarms through the Origin & Area context

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Analog alarms
Choose a trigger
To create an analog Define alarm class
tag
alarm, navigate to
HMI alarms and click
„ n w“…

Choose a limit
Add alarm text Set a limit value
mode

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Alarm parameter

Up to 10 different
alarm parameters
can be used

Alarm parameters are used to output process values in the alarm text (valid for discrete and analog alarms !)

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Alarming
Live Demo

LIVE D E M O 19

• Configuration of Runtime Settings

• System events
• Analog alarms
• Discrete alarms and acknowledgement tags
• Filter

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Scripting

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 System Functions
3 JavaScript Syntax
4 Script debugger
5 RTIL Trace viewer

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Script editors

There are different script editors in WinCC Unified. You can find them in the events,
dynamizations of screen items, scheduled tasks and also in the global module area.
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Autocomplete

Can be opened by…

• Click on the button

• K y co b n on ”C l & Sp c ” o “C l & ”
• n “.” f n obj c o l l n

Autocomplete helps to address WinCC elements.

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Object picker

Can be opened by…

• K y co b n on ”C l & j”

You can change the short cut in TIA Portal general

settings

Object picker for HMI tags, HMI connections, screens & screen objects.

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InfoTip

T bu on “InfoTip” lso op ns
ToolTip for the specific function.

Typ n “(” f func on

name and the ToolTip opens

A lot of functions provide InfoTips which explain the function and their parameters.

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Global Modules

• Each screen has its own global definitions, property

dynamizations and item events

• Local scripts (of screens) can import functions from

global modules

• Note: Values of global variables are only local copies

for each Screen. If you need values across screens
use datasets or internal tags.

• Note: Screens can not access functions or definitions

of other screen (Exception: screen in screen)

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Scripting basics
Toggle of Global Definition Area

Hide or unhide
the GDA

Scripting editor is split

in GDA and local script

Have a quick overview of the GDA during the editing of the local scripts without switching the GDA on/off.

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Scripting basics
Global Definition Area – Reference handling of aliases

Alias in GDA

Updated reference
in script

Handle easily the renaming of aliases of the imported modules.

Change the alias in the GDA and all the usages in scripts using the same GDA will be updated.

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Scripting basics
Copy & paste of the import statement together with the screen items

Screen_3 Screen_4

1. Copy & Paste

screen item

2. Import statement in global

definiton area will be
automatically copied

Import statement will be copied automatically by copying a screen item

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Global Modules

Global Modules

In global modules, functions can be defined which are

used in several screens.

Hint: The advantage is the programming efficiency,

standardization and easier maintenance.
To call a function of a global module in a screen the
function has to be imported (which means the code is
copied internally)

Global modules are groups of several functions with one common definition area.

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Global Modules

Story 1
The same function multiple times in one screen:
1. Create the function in the global definition area of
the screen
2. Call the function in the same screen e.g. via buttons

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Global Modules

Story 2
The same function multiple times in multiple
screens:
1. Create the function in a global module
2. Call the function in multiple screens e.g. via
buttons

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Global definition area within screens

On each screen there is one

global definition area for all
property scripts of the
embedded screen items.

On each screen there is one

global definition area for all
event scripts of the
embedded screen items.

Every screen has its own two global definition areas! One for the events and one more for the property
dynamizations. hey’re not connected to each other!
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Global definition area – Use Cases

Use Cases

1 1. I po n lob l o ul s…
2. D f n n cons n s…
2
3. D f n n func ons…
3 …w c n n s v l sc p s
that belong to this global definition area
in this screen.

A global definition area could be used for constants and often needed functions.

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Calling function of global definition area

1. Calling functions which are defined in

1
the global definition area
2. Calling functions of global module
2
(The module has to be imported first.
In this case the module was imported
in the global definition area)

The functions and tags which are defined in the global definition area can be used directly in any script of the
screen. There is no import efforted.
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Scripting basics
Script improvements (automatic tag trigger, search, xref,) Local search in global
scripts

List of trigger tags are

filled automatically

XRef for global modules

/ functions

Trigger tags are evaluated automatically

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Execution contexts

Scheduled tasks Screen

Cyclic Tag triggered Alarm triggered Event context Properties context

Triggered Perform an action based on an

Triggered cyclically Triggered by value
depending on the event, e.g. click on a button or Can be cyclic, tag based
fastest cycle is change of one or
defined alarm p op y “c n ”
100ms multiple tags
criteria
Cyclic scripts should Cyclic scripts should be avoided
React on value React on changes
be avoided because because of the performance
changes in alarm system
of the performance
Hints: Hints:
• All jobs share a script context • The script of a property cannot access global tags of an event
• Different tasks can access common global tags even in the same screen.
• Each required module must be referenced by means of the • Each script context references the modules that it has imported
'import' statement using the 'import' statement. However, each script context
• No access to screen items receives its own copy of the tags defined there

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Scripting basics
JavaScript Command ListFiles

list recursive
files and
folders
filter

New cript function “HMIRuntime.FileSystem.Browse” lists folders and files in a specific directory

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Scripting basics
Cross Reference

Screen objects

Alarming

Logging

Global Script context

Scheduled Tasks

Improvement of the cross Reference

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 System Functions
3 JavaScript Syntax
4 Script debugger
5 RTIL Trace viewer

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Scripting basics
System function

SIMATIC WinCC Unified uses JavaScript as a

script language

• One scripting language for Panel and PC Systems

• Use the entire object-oriented JavaScript scope
for handling data, objects, classes, inheritance
• Predefined code Snippets for common tasks
available in TIA Portal
• Always on server side to assure access to
(network) file system and database connections

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System functions

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Predefined set of standard functions

for frequently required tasks

System functions are available for events

and scheduled tasks

Direct access to WinCC Unified objects and

functionality e.g. SetTag, ChangeScreen, LogOff

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System functions

Several system functions are supplied by WinCC Unified.

The system functions are used either in function lists, user-defined functions, or local scripts.
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System functions editors

Change to JavaScript Editor

Converted system function

System functions can be converted from function list to JavaScript code.

Converting JavaScript to system function list is not supported.
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System functions use in scripts

Hints:

• Every system function can be used in a script

• T os c n b co n z ou “SysFct”
• System functions can be also used for
dynamizations

Scripting basics is an Option package.

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Handling system functions

Copy and paste system functions between screen objects.

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Scripting basics
Handling system functions

Change the order of the system functions.

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 System Functions
3 JavaScript Syntax
4 Script debugger
5 RTIL Trace viewer

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JavaScript Syntax

Preferred way:
• const variable = value
(const is for constant variables)
• let variable = value
(standard way to declare variables)
Outdated way:
• var variable = value (older version of variable
declaration, scoping problems)

Some of the snippets or example code have the old

version of variable declaration.

Variable declaration.

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JavaScript Syntax

To work with strings you can use:

• „T x “ ( o sp c f c x )
• + (to connect strings to each other)
• variable (use the value of a variable)

Trace example:

HMIRuntime.trace(„T x “+v bl +„T x “+V lu *V lu …)

Working with strings.

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JavaScript Syntax

• || (logical or)
• && (logical and)
• ! (logical not)

Example:

If ( (variable1 || variable2) && variable3) { }

Logical Operators.

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Access local screen items

Screen.Items()
• Access to all items in the same hierarchy level
• Properties of items are known and can be selected
via IntelliSense
• If item name is changed, Screen.Items()-item is
also adjusted automatically
• Item path can be addressed with relative or
absolute prefix

Screen.Items() can only access items of the current screen.

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Access global screen items

Screen.FindItem()
• Access to all items independent of the hierarchy
level
• Properties of items are known and can be selected
via IntelliSense
• Item name is handover as static string
• Item path can be addressed with relative or
absolute prefix

Screen.FindItem() can access all items from different screens/hierarchy levels.

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Absolute / relative addressing

r Prefix Description
e
References the higher-level screen window (parent) in the
l ".."
a
context of the current screen window.
• Relative and absolute items paths are distinguished
References the own screen window (self).
t "." by the prefix of the item path.
i A screen item of the current screen window is referenced
v
"" without prefix.

e • The relative item path is specified starting from the

screen where the script is called.

a
• The absolute item path is specified starting from
b Prefix Description
s the "RootScreenWindow".
o References a screen window on the highest level, whose
"/" name must follow.
l
u References the screen window on the highest level in the
"~" own screen hierarchy.
t
e

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Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 System Functions
3 JavaScript Syntax
4 Script debugger
5 RTIL Trace viewer

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Scripting basics
SIMATIC Runtime Manager – Script debugger

• You adjust settings for:

• Enable/disable screen debugger.

• Assign port number to the debugger for screens.

• Enable/disable scheduler debugger.

• Assign port number to the debugger for jobs.

The debugger is disabled by default. After the activation a RT restart is required.

Scripting basics
Script debugger Chrome <V80

To start the debugger:

Chrome V<80: call the URL http://localhost:port number (e.g. http://localhost:9222)
Chrome V>=80 call the URL Chrome://inspect go to "Target Discovery" settings and add the address
"127.0.0.1: 222“ more information's in I : 109779192
Scripting basics
Script debugger Chrome >=V80

1. Configure 2. Add your Target

(127.0.0.1:9222)

3. Open your Target

To start the debugger:

Chrome V<80: call the URL http://localhost:port number (e.g. http://localhost:9222)
Chrome V>=80 call the URL Chrome://inspect go to "Target Discovery" settings and add the address
"127.0.0.1: 222“ more information's in I : 109779192
Scripting basics
Script debugger
3. Code display
area
1. Select
“Sou c s”

2. Navigation
area
4. Debugging
area

The scripts shown in the debugger are from the current screen in open browser tab (RT).

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Script debugger - Breakpoints

After setting a break point, you can monitor tag values in "Watch" tab in the debugging area or directly with
mouse pointer over the tag.
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Scripting basics
Script debugger - Breakpoints

Breakpoints can be linked to a condition.

Screen debugger
Live demo

LIVE D E M O 21 in 20 min
1. Activate the screen debugger in the RT
Manager
2. Op n “c o :// nsp c ” o o "T
D scov y”
3. Add "127.0.0.1:9222"
4. Open your "target"
5. Create a breakpoint and see what happens
Additionally try to debug the script from the
Your target
first exercise!

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Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 System Functions
3 JavaScript Syntax
4 Script debugger
5 RTIL Trace viewer

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RTIL Trace viewer

• Trace Viewer displays all runtime alarms which are

listed in the configurable TraceCatalog.
• Traces are displayed in tabular form and can be
filtered.
• Alarms can be exported in text or CSV files.

RTIL Trace Viewer is a separate application. Location:

C:\Program Files\Siemens\Automation\WinCCUnified\bin\RTILtraceViewer
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RTIL Trace viewer

• Carry out an action in the simulation which starts a

JavaScript function.
• Filter by the trace messages "Subsystem >
ScriptFW".
• Define additional filter criteria if required.
• Evaluate trace messages if actions in the simulation
lead to errors.

If no messages are displayed in the Trace Viewer

despite errors in the simulation, reset the filters.
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RTIL Trace viewer

It is possible to output a text or a tag value in the Trace viewer via scripting.

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RTIL Trace viewer
Live demo

LIVE D E M O 22 in 10 min

• Extend the existing scripts by a .Trace()

functionality
• Open the TraceViewer
(C:\Program
Files\Siemens\Automation\WINCCUnified\bin\RTILt
raceViewer.exe)
• Apply a Filter to see the runtime traces

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Logging

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 Logging Engineering
3 Trend control
4 Audit Viewer
5 Scheduled Task

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Scalable logging concept

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Unmanaged file-based data archive for small to

medium applications up to 5,000 Logging Tags.

Changeover to databased logging (optional)

possible due to identical logging structures.
Databased

Planned
Logging Tags
Central logging as overall plant
archiving solution (optional).

Power Tags

Universal logging functionality for machine-level requirements

regarding handling of archive data e.g., copy/paste log files

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Licensing

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Unified Comfort Panels

5k File-based Logging up to 5,000
Logging Tags (included).

Unified PC Systems
• File-based Logging up to 5,000 Logging Tags
• More than 5000 Logging Tags:
→ change to MS SQL Server required
0 • Licenses for Logging Tags:
File based 100; 500; 1,000; 5,000 (countable)
Tag Logging licenses are valid for
both types of logging: Possibility to change to Databased
file-based und Databased-Logging. File-based Logging for growing requirements.
Unified comfort panel PC

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SQLite

Unified Comfort Panel PC

• SQLite is a relational database management

system.

• It is self-contained, no additional installation is

needed.

Unified RT systems use SQLite as the default database type.

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File-based vs. Databased
Unified Comfort Panel PC Unified Comfort Panel PC

File-based Logging Database Logging

SQL Lite MS SQL 2017 Standard Edition (64 Bit)

5,000 Max. Logging Tags Max. number of Power Tags

Depending on storage capacity No of/data per Archive Depending on storage capacity

Offset per segment = ~0,5 MB Footprint Offset per segment = ~5 MB

Tag Logging Record size = ~50 bytes (thumb-rules for record size calculations) Tag Logging Record size = ~50 bytes

Cyclic, On demand, On change Aggregation Cyclic, On demand, On change

Comparison, Value, Relative Value, Swinging Comparison, Value, Relative Value, Swinging
Smoothing
Door Door

Yes (e.g. day, week) Compression archives Yes (e.g. day, week, month, year)

Yes (copy log file manually) Backup Yes (automated backup)

For more detailed information regarding record size calculation please have a look at the TIA online help.

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Log Structure

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Logs are structured as time series database
which is optimized for storing and
serving through associated pairs of time and
Main database
- config data value.
for all logs

Log A
For best performance and optimal footprint
- Data the set of fixed configuration data is separated
Log Segments from the dynamic, continuous values.

Log B
- Data
Log Segments
Same structure for file based logging (SQLite)
and Microsoft SQL logging.

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Data aggregation

Aggregation modes:

• Cyclic: Continuous archiving of process values

• On request: Event-triggered archiving

e.g. archiving of a current process value when a critical limit value is exceeded

• On change: acyclic archiving on value change

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Smoothing to minimize storage capacity

Smoothing modes:
• No smoothing – All values are logged
• Comparing values – Time interval – value changes within interval will not be logged
• Value – Limit value (hysteresis) – log only if distance to last value is exceeded
• Relative value – Deviation (in %) – log only if deviation to last value is exceeded
• Swinging Door – Compression of values according to defined rate of change
(choose between deviation of minimal or maximal time)

Smoothing through the value Swinging Door Swinging Door

Constant value of deviation (hysteresis) Maximum time Minimum time

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Cyclic vs. On change

• “ n Change”: all changes are logged

(24 measured points in 1,5s)

• “Cyclic”: important information get lost

(4 measured points in 1,5s with a 500ms cycle)

• Take account of how detailed the data log

should be to avoid:
→ loosing any information
→ data logs getting too large

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Circular Archive

1. Values are stored continuously

to the first segment
2. Next segment when max.
size or max time range
3. When all segments are filled,
the first segment is deleted
and recreated

The usage of backups is only possible with MS SQL Server.

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Logging Tags
Application example

This application example shows:

• basics about logging in SIMATIC WinCC Unified

• when to use which logging method
• how to adapt the necessary configurations
• how to configure archives, logging tags and
alarm logging
• which requirements are necessary for an ideal
archiving
• how to export archives

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109782859/

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 Logging Engineering
3 Trend control
4 Audit Viewer
5 Scheduled Task

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Storage system

Database supported types:

• File-based logging – SQLite (as default in

Unified PC RT systems).

• Database logging – Microsoft SQL (as an option

for Unified PC RT systems). Not available for
Unified Comfort Panels.

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Improvements

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Main Database Storage:

for configuration data for all logs

• SD → SD card
• USB → USB memory
• Off → Disable storage

Seperate storage path for

tag logging and alarm
logging

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Logging Tags
Improvements

Edit all different settings

in table view

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Runtime Settings

Assign any name

Select backup
to the log
mode

Maximum time
and size of the log

Determines Maximum time and Path where the

where the log is size of the segment backup should
stored be stored

With both logging types you define the same properties for the log
(except BackUp mode: only available for MSSQL).

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Logging Tags configuration steps 1 - 4

Configure a logging tag:

1. Select an existing tag in the tag table.

2. Click "Logging tags" in the lower table editor.

3. In “Lo n s" bl o , oubl -click

"<Add>" in the column "Name".

4. Assign a data log to the new logging tag.

Logging tags are configured and edited in the "HMI tags" editor.
Logging Tags
Logging Tags configuration steps 5 - 7

Configure a logging tag:

5. Select the required smoothing mode.

6. Select the desired compression mode for

compressing the logged values.

7. Enter the limit range and the required limit

values if needed
Logging Tags
Logging modes

1. Cyclic: Logging takes place according to the set

cycle.

2. On demand: Logging is triggered by a state

change of a preconfigured trigger tag.

3. On change: Logging only takes place if there is

a value change in the tags to be logged.

You have the option to select one out of three "logging modes" for logging tags.
Logging Tags
Long term saving of logs

Action can be triggered

as scheduled task

Export of logged values into a user defined format is supported via Snippet!

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 Logging Engineering
3 Trend control
4 Audit Viewer
5 Scheduled Task

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Trend Control
Flexible evaluation of process data

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Free configurable trend view of online and/or

historical data e.g., multiple trend areas

User defined settings regarding trend

appearance e.g., color, line form, single
value point, background

Direct evaluation of online and historical data including Trend user interface e.g., number of trends,
comparison of different time ranges e.g., shifts
ruler, range, print (hardcopy), export

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Trend Control
Configuration

Click here leads to

Table view for trends
Table view for trends
for faster adjustment Sort or delete trends
for faster adjustment
of settings
of settings

Add a new Trend

Connect a tag / logging

tag to the trend

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 NEW

Trend Companion
Statistical evaluation of process data

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Free configurable statistic view in relation

to the selected range of the corresponding
trend control

User defined evaluation regarding

sum, average, max, min, integral

Trend Companion user interface e.g.,

print (hardcopy) or the export statistical data
Flexible statistical evaluation of process data depending on
you p son l n (op o , sup v so , n n nc , …)

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 NEW

Trend Companion
Configuration
Data source:
select the trend
control of the current
screen

Select visibility for

all necessary
elements of the
toolbar

Click here leads to

table view of Toolbar
elements for faster
adjustment of settings

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Function Trend control f(x)
Analysis of data

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Analysis of data without

time-based relationship

Typical use cases are e.g., batch evaluations

(pressure vs. temperature) or quality evaluations
(availability vs. performance)

Graphical presentation of mathematical

formulas e.g., target – performance comparison
Function trend control refers to online and historical data.
or reactions at chemical processes

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 Function Trend control f(x)
Configuration
Click here leads to
table view of trends for
faster adjustment of
settings

Select the data Select visibility for

source for the x- and all necessary
y-value elements of the
toolbar

Connect a tag / logging

tag to the specific data
source

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Trend Control
Live Demo

LIVE D E M O 23

• Which Settings are necessary

• What needs to be considered when archiving

• How does the Trend control work

• Connect tags to it

• Calculate values and export it Excel

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 Logging Engineering
3 Trend control
4 Audit Viewer
5 Scheduled Task

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Scheduled tasks
Overview

• Execute cyclic actions in Runtime

• Trigger actions on value change of a tag
• Trigger actions based on alarms in runtime

ystem ags can’t be used in cheduled tasks.

There is no access from scheduled tasks to screen items.

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Scheduled tasks
Alarm trigger

Alarm trigger

Define criteria

Define alarm criteria that needs to be fulfilled to trigger the event.

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Scheduled tasks
Live Demo

LIVE D E M O 24

• Create some tasks in the scheduled tasks area

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 WinCC Unified – V18

Communication & Tags

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Communication
2 Tag Handling
3 Tag Counting
4 Tags
5 OPC UA

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Engineering Connections
Integrated Connections – E o “D v c s & N wo k”

Add a integrated HMI connection via Drag & Drop operation.

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Engineering Connections
E o “Conn c ons”

Add new connection

Editor “Connections” to manage and create integrated and non-integrated connections.

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Engineering Connections
Integrated Connections – E o “Conn c ons”

“In us l E n ”
as required interface

Specify connection
parameters

he connections will be created automatically in the editor “Connections”.

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Engineering Connections
Non integrated connections – E o “Conn c ons”

Select the
Add a new communication driver
connection

Select the required

interface

Specify connection
parameters

he connections can be created manually via double click in “add new”.

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Engineering Connections
Using Device Proxy

Selection for import:

• Data blocks
• PLC tags
• Alarm texts from S7

… f c n s n
the STEP 7 program

(STEP 7 V5.x project)

With the “Device roxy” you can include LCs from E 7 V .x projects and
use the advantages of TIA Portal.

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 Tag handling
External Tags – E o “ MI s”

PLC name is assigned

Tag properties automatically when the
connection is selected

When configuring an external PLC tag that

tag, the HMI Connection must is linked with
be specified the HMI Tag

You can also create external HMI tags by dragging and dropping data block elements or global PLC tags to an
HMI tag table.

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Tag handling
External Tags – Add HMI tags via Drag & Drop

HMI tag with HMI connection will be added automatically.

The name will be generated by the DB name and PLC tag name.

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Tag handling
External Tags – Using PLC-UDTs from S7-1200/S7-1500

Select PLC tag with

PLC-UDT as data type

You can also can add HMI tags with a PLC-UDT as data type.

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Tag handling
External Tags – Data-Types for S7-1200/1500 communication

PLC-UDT as type
in project library
c v “ cc ss bl
fo MI/O CU ”
for Elements

The PLC-UDT must be a type and the elements accessible from HMI device.

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Tag handling
External Tags – Data-Types for S7-1200/1500 communication

dvantages when using the “ ccessible

from HMI” flag
• PowerTag license:
Only needed elements will become HMI Tags

Only activated • Engineering handling:

c v “ cc ss bl save time by simply drag&drop a complete DB
elements will
fo MI/O CU ”
become HMI Tags to a HMI tagtable and get all necessary HMI
for Elements
tags

nly elements having “ ccessible from HMI” enabled will become HMI ags

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Tag handling
External Tags – Add HMI tags with PLC data type via Drag & Drop

HMI tags can be

added also through a
DB

Not accessible tag

will not be added

Not
accessible

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Tag handling
External Tags – Addressing

Options for addressing a PLC tag:

• Symbolic addressing – a validity check of the tag

connection is performed in runtime. If a symbol is
changed in the PLC, the change is registered and
an error message is issued.

• Absolute addressing – The linking of tags is not

checked in runtime. You select the valid data type of
the tags. If the tag address changes in the PLC,
compile and load the HMI device again so that the
change is registered in runtime.

Symbolic addressing is the default method.

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Tag handling
External Tags – Acquisition mode/cycle

Configure acquisition
mode and update
cycle

Acquisition mode and update cycle is directly configured at the properties of a tag.

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Tag handling
External Tags – cqu s on o “On n ”

3. Trigger system function

with Update ID to update
tag values
1. Configure
Acquisition mode to
“On demand”

Acquisition mode Available for Data types Behavior

Cyclic in operation • Elementary datatypes Tag value is updated in configured
• Arrays cycle when used on an activated
• UDT‘s screen
On demand • Elementary datatypes Tag value on HMI is only updated
2. Define an Update ID • Arrays when system function „Up “
is called

Update ID’s can be used for multiple tags

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Tag handling
Internal Tags – Persistence

• Activate the persistence at the properties of the

internal tag

• The value will be saved when stopping the

runtime and used as start value if runtime is
started again

Activate
persistence • Tag persistence needs to be activated in runtime
settings

o save persistency values, the untime on UC needs to be stopped via system function “StopRuntime”

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Tag handling
Internal Tags – Runtime settings for tag persistency

Possible storage Possible storage

mediums for mediums for
PC systems Panels

You configure the data location for tag persistency in the Runtime settings.
It depends on the device which locations are possible.

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Tag handling
Live Demo: Create external tag with S7-1200/1500 connection

LIVE D E M O 25 in 15 min

• Create a connection
• C UDT n wo k w “ cc ss bl f o MI”
flag
• Create a DB and insert some tags
• Create the tags in HMI
• Test the different acquisition cycles
• Compile and see the behavior regarding powertags
usage
• Test in Runtime

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 NEW

Tag Counting Concept – V18 Unified Comfort Panel

SIMATIC WinCC Unified

Not linked tags e.g. via Script

are not used and needs to be
Only tags in use e.g. Process configured in a screen to be
Value are counted System limit = 8000 used tags useable

First step of new tag count concept introduced!

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 NEW

Tag Counting Concept – V18 Unified Comfort Panel – UDT & Faceplate
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

In V18 a new counting for UCP will be implemented. A distinction is made between tags in use and configured

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 NEW

Tag Counting Concept – V18 Unified PC-Runtime

SIMATIC WinCC Unified
No change for tag counting to previous
versions!

All tags part of the HMI tag tables are counted. This includes elements of arrays and structures!

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Communication & Tags
Tags – System tags

New system tag @CurrentLanguage

Can be used to react on language change in

runtime

System tags can be directly accessed in

faceplate types

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 NEW

Communication & Tags

Session local tags

Client 1 session In Runtime Session-local

tags have their own value
Client 2 session for each client session

A new Scope property

allows to configure
internal tags to be
Session-local

Store client specific information in session local tags.

Elementary datatypes, HMI UDT and Array are supported

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 NEW

Communication & Tags

Session local tags – Ex pl ‚S opw c '

Store client specific information in session local tags

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 NEW

WinCC Unified V18

Connectivity – OPC UA

Communication via WinCC Unified devices can be used as OPC UA client

OPC UA WinCC Unified PC HMI Unified Comfort Panel
as OPC UA as OPC UA
▪ A&C Server ▪ A&C Server
▪ A&C Client(1) ▪ A&C Client (1)
▪ DA Server or Client ▪ DA Server or Client

3rd Party PLC, HMI or device

OPC UA alarms can be ▪ OPC UA Server
Easy and powerful  Displayed
▪ OPC UA Client

alarm integration of  Statistically evaluated

3rd party devices and  Logged
HMIs via OPC UA A&C  Acknowledged
(1) With V18 Update

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Overview
Standard interface OPC UA

Unified Comfort Panel PC

Unified Comfort Panel WinCC Unified Runtime PC

• OPC UA DA/A&C server • OPC UA DA/A&C server • Unified Comfort Panel and WinCC Unified
• OPC UA DA client • OPC UA DA client Runtime PC can be configured as
OPC UA server and as OPC UA client.

• The OPC UA DA server provides process values

OPC UA
from the WinCC data management for one or
more OPC UA DA clients.

Devices without S7 Devices/applications of

communication driver third-party providers
• The OPC UA A&C server provides the alarms
• OPC UA DA server • OPC UA DA server from the WinCC alarm management for one or
• OPC UA DA/A&C client • OPC UA DA/A&C client
more OPC UA A&C clients.

OPC UA communication standard for connectivity

to OT/IT systems and other automation systems
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OPC UA client
E o “Conn c ons” – OPC UA connection parameter

Type in discovery URL

Select security mode

Message security mode

User & Password for

authentication

Select running OPC UA

servers local or in the
network environment

OPC UA Client supports security policies, message security modes

and user (with password) authentication.
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 WinCC Unified – V18

Offline Transfer

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Device handling – Load project to external storage medium
SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Offline transfer

• You can use offline transfer if you cannot establish

a direct connection from the configuration PC to the
HMI device.

• The compiled runtime project is loaded onto an

external storage medium.

• You load either the complete runtime project or only

changes of a runtime project.

Only one runtime project at a time with the same project identification
can be saved in the target directory.

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Device handling – Load project to external storage medium
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

Procedure:

Jump to the "Devices" tab in the project tree.

1. Double-click "Add user-defined card reader" in the
"Card reader/USB storage" folder.
2. Select a target directory to save the project.
3. Drag and drop the folder of the HMI device to the
added folder.
4. In the selection menu, specify how your project is
to be loaded, Click "Load" to confirm.

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Device handling – Load project from external storage medium
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

UCP Procedure:

1. Go to control panel.
2. Select Runtime Properties > Load project from
storage.
3. Select the storage media and the project.
4. Confirm with "Add project".

UCP must have V17 image.

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Device handling – Load project from external storage medium
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

UCP Procedure:

Check project details before executing project load

5. Click on load.
6. The project has been loaded.

UCP must have V17 image.

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SIMATIC WinCC Unified
Live Demo: Sm@rtClient – Offline Transfer

LIVE D E M O 26
• Offline Transfer

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Q&A