WinCC OA Getting Started - Tutorial

A tutorial that describes the basics of technology and use of on the basis of practical examples.

This GettingStarted tutorial is addressed to automation technicians, project engineers and developers who perform tasks in the fields of process visualization, control technology and the Collaborative Manufacturing Management (CMM).

Through its scalable and modular system concept, WinCC OA provides a powerful and future-proof basis for each form of control center application. The consistently implemented client-server architecture allows multi-user access with simultaneous multilingualism. The possible configurations range from autonomous single systems with minimum configuration to multi-computer applications for load sharing as well as multi-server clusters (distributed systems). Hot-standby redundancy of the servers as well as the full network redundancy provide high availability.

This tutorial describes the basics of technology and use of the automation software WinCC OA on the basis of practical examples. The fields "structured data model" and "Object orientation" build the main focus. The purpose is to get to know WinCC OA quickly and independently though it's not possible to go into details of the whole range of functionality. In addition we recommend to participate in a professional training.

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