Siemens WinCC SCADA: WinCC Unified, WinCC Classic V7, WinCC RT Professional, TIA Portal

Siemens WinCC is one of the most widely deployed SCADA systems in the industry. Its evolution spans from WinCC V3 (1990s) to the current WinCC Unified platform based on web technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, SVG), through WinCC V7/V8 classic and WinCC RT Professional integrated in TIA Portal.

WinCC Classic (V7.x/V8.x) is an open-architecture SCADA supporting single-station, multi-station, client/server, WebNavigator, WebUX and DataMonitor projects. Programming is done in VBScript and ANSI C, with powerful graphic editors, alarm systems, data archiving and user administration (Simatic Logon, Active Directory).

WinCC RT Professional is part of TIA Portal and allows designing the SCADA alongside the PLC in a single project. WinCC Unified is the future platform: based on web standards, it supports JavaScript scripting, custom controls, and is the native platform for the Unified Comfort Panels.

We also cover the Process Management AddOns (PM-Quality, PM-Analyze, PM-Control) for quality control and process analysis in WinCC.

Windows Control Center (WinCC)

WinCC Classic

SIMATIC WinCC is Siemens' supervisory control and data acquisition system. Here is its evolution:

WinCC 3.0

WinCC 4.0 — 1998

WinCC 5.0 — 1999

WinCC 5.1 — 2003

WinCC 6.0 — 2003

WinCC 6.2 — 2007

WinCC 7.0 — 2008

WinCC 7.0 SP3 — 2011

WinCC 7.2 — 2013

WinCC 7.3 — 2014

WinCC 7.4 — 2016

WinCC 7.4 SP1 — 2017

WinCC 7.5 — 2018

WinCC 7.5 SP1 — 2019 (Current Version) Updated 08-03-2020

DataMonitor