PLucas
Member
This is a little bit of a rant and also a little bit of information for those of you planning to upgrade your Protool to WinCC flex.
Yesterday, my Electrical Engineering manager buggered off (can I use that phrase, 'buggered off'? 'went to' might be the better phrase) a seminar set up by Siemens here in the south east of England. He didn't have a clue what it was about, but went anyway.
This morning he popped into my office and said "You would have found that seminar interesting", "why?" I asked. He then went on to tell me it was an 'introduction' to WinCC flex. "I have that on order, ready for when it is released" I stated. It would have been nice to have been asked if I wanted to attend!
He then went on to tell me what he could remember about it, which was not a lot really as he doesn't deal with any of the HMI and SCADA stuff we have, that falls in my lap. He was a little out of his depth technically.
One of the main points he remembered was that to run WinCC Flex, the recommended memory requirements is 1 gig!! Although it will run with only 500 meg, but apparently it will be painfully slow.
Great!! That means that none of my PG's will run it, my PC will need upgrading as it only has 256 meg memory at the moment and no CP card fitted as I use my PG's for programing.
Have any of you guys, who are planning to upgrade to WinCC flex, been told of the memory requirements or any other information about the package? Apparently, it will let you connect to a screen (HMI) remotely via ethernet and then remote control the HMI, a bit like PC Anywhere. That could be very useful.
I will be honest here and state that I haven't really looked up any information on WinCC flex, I was waiting until the software arrived on my desk before I looked into it. Maybe I should start looking now.
Any comments or info you have on this will be appreciated.
Paul
Yesterday, my Electrical Engineering manager buggered off (can I use that phrase, 'buggered off'? 'went to' might be the better phrase) a seminar set up by Siemens here in the south east of England. He didn't have a clue what it was about, but went anyway.
This morning he popped into my office and said "You would have found that seminar interesting", "why?" I asked. He then went on to tell me it was an 'introduction' to WinCC flex. "I have that on order, ready for when it is released" I stated. It would have been nice to have been asked if I wanted to attend!
He then went on to tell me what he could remember about it, which was not a lot really as he doesn't deal with any of the HMI and SCADA stuff we have, that falls in my lap. He was a little out of his depth technically.
One of the main points he remembered was that to run WinCC Flex, the recommended memory requirements is 1 gig!! Although it will run with only 500 meg, but apparently it will be painfully slow.
Great!! That means that none of my PG's will run it, my PC will need upgrading as it only has 256 meg memory at the moment and no CP card fitted as I use my PG's for programing.
Have any of you guys, who are planning to upgrade to WinCC flex, been told of the memory requirements or any other information about the package? Apparently, it will let you connect to a screen (HMI) remotely via ethernet and then remote control the HMI, a bit like PC Anywhere. That could be very useful.
I will be honest here and state that I haven't really looked up any information on WinCC flex, I was waiting until the software arrived on my desk before I looked into it. Maybe I should start looking now.
Any comments or info you have on this will be appreciated.
Paul