Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Configuration Manual page 174

Configuring AS functions
8.5 Bulk Engineering
Scope of functions
Advanced Engineering is an optional package for PCS 7 Engineering which can be used from
PCS 7 V7.1 SP2 and above.
● Advanced Engineering processes data for use in the PCS 7 ES.
● It is an application for importing data.
● Data can be imported into Advanced Engineering from process tag lists and signal lists and
transferred to PCS 7 ES.
● Plant hierarchy, signal and parameter settings can be incorporated automatically from the
process tag lists and signal lists.
● Hardware (distributed I/O including channel allocation) can be generated from the signal
lists. Object-dependent bulk processing and queries are possible.
● Variants can be formed from one type when using control module types (CMT).
Example: There is only one valve type. The variants are formed from this with or without
feedback.
The following image shows an example of the Advanced Engineering working environment:
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