4/30/2021 7:05 PM | |
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Hi, I'm curious about WinCC OA for some years, but: nobody at Siemens / Germany wants to speak about WinCC OA - as if it would be an "illegitimate child" in the Siemens universe ... Using WinCC V7 I was looking for a SCADA solution wthich supports more end user units (tablet, browser ...) more flexible than WinCC V7 does. My customers more and more want to see / supervise "their" plants at different locations in Germany on their desktop computer in their office or on their notebooks, or mobile. That's why I learnded about WinCC OA. I startet to explore WinCC OA a few weeks ago with a demo installation and the "Getting Started" project, so I'm an newbie. And I started "googleing" around to get more information comparing WinCC V7 vs. WinCC OA. What I learned: there's seems to be no one out there you creates projects on both systems. There are some people out there (esp. at Siemens) who tell me: WinCC OA is a "beast", it takes you 10.000 hours to learn. There are people who explain: WinCC OA ist for large and complex plants only (like the CERN research center in Geneva). But: you can run WinCC OA even on an IOT2040 (6ES7647-0AA00-1YA2) or a Raspberry - allegedly. And it runs on Linux as well as on Windows ... What I am wondering: is there anything you cannot do with WinCC OA "as easy" as you can do in WinCC V7? Imagine this: I'm 60 now. If there comes a young woman / man beginning here / his life in the Siemens Automation World up to me asking what SCADA she / he should learn and use first: what would I suggest? Use WinCC V7 as "everybody else"? Or use a modern and flexible system like WinCC OA (seems to be for me)? Well - I know that even WinCC V7 evolves. Something like the WebNavigator ist better today than in the beginning, they say. And there is WinCC Unified (in it's early beta versions - just let it mature for some more years) within the TIA universe, which Siemens is promoting intrusive like a dealer his carpets in an oriental market place. What do you think? Is WinCC OA the "better", the modern alternative / successor of WinCC V7? Or will it be some day? Kind regards, Thomas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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