Setup guide

OSx Migration Cookbook August 30, 2006

1 – Introduction

Introduction

Definitions

Noteworthy in

6.1

This book covers the migration of Siemens’ OSx control system to

Siemens’ PCS 7 control system. It provides a guide for determining

what needs to be migrated, how that might be done, and what the

scope of such a project might be.

The majority of OSx customers use it to supervise Simatic TI505

PLCs. Thus, the main thrust of this document is how to convert OSx

customers to PCS 7/505 OS, i.e., PCS 7 with the Simatic TI505 OS

option.

This book assumes a basic familiarity with PCS 7 and OSx

functionality and terminology.

This book is not intended to replace manuals and help files that are

already available for OSx and PCS 7. Instead it is meant to help those

who need to make decisions on how to proceed when contemplating a

migration from OSx to PCS 7. This book should be used in

conjunction with the PCS 7/505 OS Setup Guide found on the PCS

7/505 OS CD.

In this book, OSx refers to the Siemens family of control systems that

started with Tistar, evolved into PCS, and finally became PCS 7 OSx.

PCS 7 refers to the Siemens control system product whose main

thrust is to provide supervisory control for the Siemens S7 PLCs. It

has now been extended to include the ability to communicate with

Bailey controllers, Siemens Moore ACM controllers, and Simatic

TI505 PLCs.

PCS 7 is used in the name of both control system products. That is

why in this book OSx is used without the PCS 7 prefix and PCS 7 is

used to identify the latest Siemens product to which OSx customers

should migrate including PCS 7/505 OS.

PAS R&D refers to the Research and Development group of the

Process Automation Systems Business Unit of Siemens Energy and

Automation in the USA.

Note the following:

 PCS 7/505 OS installs Hotfix 7 for PCS 7 V6.1 SP1 unless

you have already installed it. PCS 7/505/OS has not been