SIMATIC WinCC Reviews & Product Details

Simatic WinCC is easy-to-understand and user-friendly software.

if we create an HMI with the help of the simulation feature we can see the design side by side and rectify the errors.

if there is a new employee in the company we can teach him all the features of SIMATIC WinCC within a couple of days to hands-on the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am faced with a problem when we take backup for one HMI to another PC; it is a time-consuming process.

if we are using old version HMI with new version HMI it is required for updation in SIMATIC WinCC.

when we use SIMATIC WinCC there are some communication problems during working time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1.Its Data Reporting structure.

2. User management.

3. Software is user friendly and adhere to 21 CFR part 11 Compliant.

4.Easy to creat recipies and phase sequenses.

5.Can run SIP and CIP phases easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It may get hang during the operation sometimes which relates to data loss also

may get communication loss with PLC.

Restart take around 40 mins, which needs to improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

'- When designing the face plate to control the device such as control vale, Pump, and cylinder. , helpful for designers in programing with specific functions with common cases and special cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

'- so difficult for maintenance /troubleshooting purposes, when you do loop check and function check. requiring to force signal, also from alarm control to identify the trigger signal by checking logic.

- From HMI, the object on HMI to check further in Logic of PLC 300, 400 ( example). It's hard to check in some case, especially, if the programmer uses the Scrips function.. Etc.

- For alarm and event, when you copy archiving data outsite the station for incident investigation , It is very hard to read them to check what happened at the timing if you don't have required sofware. The control alarm/ events are strongly for configuration but Wincc should equipt a report export function. with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Considering Wincc has been around for a long time there is a wide array of resources to choose from when it comes to developing or troubleshooting issues.

Scalable Projects

Supports various communication protocols Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Service and supports needs to be improved.

Scipt language is limited.

Software is bulky and prone to crashes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Professional environment with the best support.

2. best graphics with software integrity with database

3. linking with third-party plc manufacturers with providing complete control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. too much expensive

2. Price includes the tag count.

3. Scada needs maintenance, which also exceeds the price cost.

4. wincc is windows based so which means if you even hate windows you still have to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, Operate, and maintenance. everything runs automatically every day, don't require an operator or main power to monitor the whole system, really usefull for our operation plant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes we got software not responding after restarting our workstation, and needed us to kill the software task and reopen software manually otherwise it still stuck as aways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

An easy to use software in which you can link your PLC tags in different ways like direct link or indirectly link through c or VB coding.

Moreover you can customise your screens and pop up screens and use it by multiplexing the tags with a standard template screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In SIMATIC WINCC the main disdvantage is the limitation of tags. And its cost.

Also you have to buy add ons like OPC DA/ OPC UA server etc.

The minimum scan cycle of tag is 500ms which is greater for a SCADA system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very much easy to integrate with any PLC. It supports almost every driver to configure with different brands of PLCs on most latest communication protocols. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Whenever we use PCS7 DCS then it seems like we are using WinCC which create bad impression on customer and it has been considered by customer that it is PLC based DCS. So WinCC interface must be different than PCS7. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great process visualization library, user-friendly design environment and extensive technical support. I have been using WinCC with SIMATIC PLCs and PLCSim. It can be used for almost any SCADA application. It's highly scalable and comes with various add-ons to support the development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

WinCC covers almost everything about SCADA Visualization. It is a windows based software which I do not like much. I wish they make it independent of OS in future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

calling tags is very easy.

colors and animations also do the required tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Disconnecting server if you going to update the screens.

Although there is an option to update by updating using changes only, but this option easy to b malfunction and forces to entier download which require the server off.

- system log file is not easy to understand more declarations need to be added to understand the failure causes.

- deploying the changes takes much time other systems do the same action with no time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.