CitectSCADA v7

Agile, Flexible & Reliable Never say never again

By Jochem Groen

Traditional Control System Choices

Performance or Agility
Flexibility or Simplicity
Open or Integrated
Proven or Cutting Edge
Distributed or Centralised
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A New Choice
Features
Agile
Reliable
High Performance
Open
Flexible
Distributed
Centralised
Proven
Cutting Edge Technology
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Features
Product Features

Faster Configuration

Flexible Topologies

Online change deployment to

clients
Faster server change
deployment
New client server architecture
Clustering options

Enhanced Reliability

Redundancy
Network fault tolerance

Segmentation

Upgrade Path

Client/Server Architecture

Event Driven
Based on .Net v2

Upgrading

Whats changed
Whats new

Client Change Deployment

V6.1

V7

System
Components

Full
Componentisation

Why Online Deployment

Where you make changes
Not Online Engineering

Advantages
Batched updates to the control system
Offsite development
Existing engineering tools

Client Change Deployment

Online

Graphics

Restart

Embedded code

IO Server
Tags
IO Devices

Alarms
Trends
Reports
Accumulators

Code Files

Cicode
CiVBA

System Configuration
Events (restart applicable
machines)
Keyboard (keys and
commands)
Devices
Groups
Fonts
Parameters

The Change Process

Change

Use any existing development tools to

provide rapid project development
Engineer changes off-site to reduce the
costs of large changes
Online editing via the user interface

The Change Process

Change

Test

Select devices to memory mode to

enable testing (while still supporting
client access)
Test before deployment on a remote
station
Batch your changes into the system
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The Change Process

Change

Test

Integrat
e

One project
License changes mean that you only pay
for the tags you use
All your projects can be combined for
efficient development
Standards are automatically maintained

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The Change Process

Change

Test

Integrat
e

Deploy

Clients are updated with changes from

the master project files
Changes requiring restarts of clients
are able to be delayed
Restarts are only for applicable
processes
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Optimised Functionality
Tag Subscription
Re-calculate expressions or other code
only when the tags change
Write efficient task code to process data
within the server

Tag Write Logs

Record every write to the PLC without
additional configuration
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Clustering
The ability to maintain any number of
separate functional control systems
while providing complete system
visibility.
Independent of hardware
Independent of include project structure
Independent of operator areas of control

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Clustering Styles

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Global Client
(Alarms, Trends, Reports & Graphics)

Servers
(Site A)

Servers
(Site B)

Operational Clustering
Global clients can display information from both systems.
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Redundant Server
(System A+B+C)

Client/Server

Client/Server

Client/Server

(System A)

(System B)

(System C)

Reliable Clustering
Many systems made redundant with a single server.
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Client/Server

Server

(System A+A )

(Expansion)

Expansion Clustering
System expansion without risk of disruption.
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Client/Server
(System A+B+C+)

Segmentation Clustering
Divide your system to match your business.
.
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Global Client*
(Alarms & Trends)

Server*

Server*

Server*

Server*

Server*

(Site A)

(Site B)

(Site C)

(Site D)

(Site E)

* Utilises CitectSCADA Web Clients for graphics

Ad-hoc Clustering
Combined alarms and trends without project integration.
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Global Client
(Project A)

System

System

System

System

System

(A1)

(A2)

(A3)

(A4)

(A5)

Repeat Clustering
Utilise the same configuration for multiple machines.
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Client/Server

Simulation / Replay

(System A)

(System A)

Functional Clustering
Use different data sources but the same graphics page.
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Upgrade

Clustered Systems
Clustered

Variables
Alarms
Includes SPC

Trends
Client displays any single
cluster

Reports
Accumulators

Devices
Tags = Mycluster.TagName

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Non-Clustered
Graphics Pages
No duplicates

Code
No duplicates

Further Reliability
Dual TCP/IP network support
Support for multiple network cards
Configured in the project (not the ini)

Communications paths
Support for N communication paths
Priority specification per path

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Summary
Fast, Flexible & Reliable
CitectSCADA is no
longer limited to a single
server system
CitectSCADA is
designed for systems
integrators to maintain
A redundant system
accepts most changes
while retaining control
system visibility
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Upgradeable
Citect is committed to
implementing new
technology in
CitectSCADA.
CitectSCADA retains an
upgrade path for all
existing customers
CitectSCADA is
preparing for the future

Questions