WinCC Unified – V18

Communication & Tags

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Tag counting
2 Tags & datatypes
3 OPC UA

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Tag Counting Concept – V18 Unified Comfort Panel
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

Not linked tags e.g. via Script

are not used and need 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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 Tag Counting Concept – V18 Unified Comfort Panel – UDT & Faceplate
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

7 UDT with 3 members

7+7*3 = 28

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

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Tag count for Unified Comfort Panels
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

V17

V18

Changed tag counting for WinCC

Unified Panels
from
Existing tags to really used tags

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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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Tag count suppression for Energy Suite Tags

2000 HMI Tags are

configured

Only HMI Tags are

counted during compile

Additional Energy Suite Tags

are present on the device

To avoid paying twice for the energy suite Tags, they will be not counted with the power tags
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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Tag counting
2 Tags & datatypes
3 OPC UA

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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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Communication & Tags
Tags – Array of Char / Array of WChar

Use an PLC array of Char / WChar as an

String / WString in your HMI

Reinitialize the PLC array with ‘$00’ (ASCII

NULL) to avoid unnecessary spaces at the
beginning of the string

Array of Char / WChar is treated as one

PowerTag

Access to single characters is not permitted

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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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Communication & Tags
Session local tags – Example ‚Stopwatch'

Store client specific information in session local tags

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Communication & Tags
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 Diagnostic Control Matrix view
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

Matrix view

disconnected PLC

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

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Communication & Tags
Live Demo

LIVE DEMO

• Matrix view
• Session tags

Client 1 session

Client 2 session

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Hands On: Communication & Tags
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

H A N D S O N in 5 min
Client 1 session
• Session tags & HMI UDT
Client 2 session

Client 1 session

Client 2 session

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Tag counting
2 Tags & datatypes
3 OPC UA

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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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Communication & Tags
OPC server settings in ES
Activate/
Deactivate Limit the amount of connected
OPC UA clients

Allow Clients to Further connecting OPC UA

acknowledge alarms Clients get rejected

Easy way to limit the number of connections or communication load from OPC UA Clients
Active and manage OPC UA Alarm and Events handling

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Communication & Tags
OPC server settings in ES Activate/
Deactivate

Allow Clients to
acknowledge alarms

Easy way to activate and manage OPC UA Alarm and Events handling

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Open Source Software License Information

The products shown in this presentation include:

• Software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
• Software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)
• Cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
• Portions were derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm

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Disclaimer

© Siemens 2022

Subject to changes and errors. The information given in this document

only contains general descriptions and/or performance features which
may not always specifically reflect those described, or which may
undergo modification in the course of further development of the
products. The requested performance features are binding only when
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All product designations may be trademarks or other rights of

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