Siemens has announced that every WinCC Flex RT license will include an ethernet SoftnetS7 lean license. So it could potentially reduce the total cost of the application (for PC based solutions).DesertDog said:A Dell server with WinCC, and NetPro at an extreme license fee total to do what we need.
Also, I wonder why anyone would chose WinAC on an MP panel.
Its expensive and less performant than a regular S7 CPU.
I think that one should never go outside the "mainstream" of automation equipment. Unless there is a specific reason of course.
If the reason was that it was a way to get to the data via ethernet, thne that has changed as Siemens has released ethernet capable CPUs that are also reasonably priced.