Chris Taylor
Lifetime Supporting Member
Morning
I’ve been asked to look at upgrading an existing redundant WinCC install, the customer is worried about the age of the servers and wants to upgrade to latest versions etc.
I freely admit that I have not worked on WinCC, Citect and Ignition are my staple.
I spoke to a very helpful guy at Siemens technical support about this but I remain slightly confused and I’m hoping someone can steer me the right way. My confusion is mostly around the differences between WinCC and TIA Portal, TIA Portal seems to be a mash of software bolted together (unfair perhaps), the web sites are helpful but not so much for upgrading.
This is what I’ve understood:
At present the WinCC is version 6.2 SP3, the latest version of WinCC is 7.3 (2013?) and it’s a simple upgrade, just load in the project and run. I can request and pay for a simple licence upgrade.
TIA Portal is currently version 13? But the upgrade is not simple (I don’t know the scope of “not simple”) and new licences are required.
Does that sound right?
I’d like to report back honestly with some realistic costs, If WinCC stopped being produced as a standalone product in 2103 then that’s important info.
I have an Ignition system in another of this customer’s locations and they like it more than the WinCC, so I’ve been asked to offer that as well but it’s a complete rewrite and so probably not cost effective.
Cheers, Chris
I’ve been asked to look at upgrading an existing redundant WinCC install, the customer is worried about the age of the servers and wants to upgrade to latest versions etc.
I freely admit that I have not worked on WinCC, Citect and Ignition are my staple.
I spoke to a very helpful guy at Siemens technical support about this but I remain slightly confused and I’m hoping someone can steer me the right way. My confusion is mostly around the differences between WinCC and TIA Portal, TIA Portal seems to be a mash of software bolted together (unfair perhaps), the web sites are helpful but not so much for upgrading.
This is what I’ve understood:
At present the WinCC is version 6.2 SP3, the latest version of WinCC is 7.3 (2013?) and it’s a simple upgrade, just load in the project and run. I can request and pay for a simple licence upgrade.
TIA Portal is currently version 13? But the upgrade is not simple (I don’t know the scope of “not simple”) and new licences are required.
Does that sound right?
I’d like to report back honestly with some realistic costs, If WinCC stopped being produced as a standalone product in 2103 then that’s important info.
I have an Ignition system in another of this customer’s locations and they like it more than the WinCC, so I’ve been asked to offer that as well but it’s a complete rewrite and so probably not cost effective.
Cheers, Chris