Lesson series

PCS7 - A Typical System Configuration

By the end of this lesson, the learner will be able to identify the core hardware components of the SIMATIC PCS 7 architecture (ES, OS, AS) and distinguish between the Plant Bus and Terminal Bus networks, enabling them to sketch a compliant system topology.
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TU finally connected the dots for me. Instead of just clicking through menus like other trainings, each short module showed me why things matter in a real plant. The cloud labs were a game changer — I repeated the PCS 7 redundancy setup five times until it made sense. No pressure, no mistakes on the live system. I’ve never learned this fast
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