Our SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system is based on Siemens WinCC OA, which provides a high degree of flexibility and scalability. Tratec Norcon possesses world-leading expertise in WinCC OA, and is a Premium Solutions Partner for the system in Norway.

SCADA system:

• Handling alarms from critical installations in the road network
• Control and monitoring of technical installations
• Traffic management
• Freely configurable traffic plans with preview
• Redundancy
• Open architecture for integration with other systems
• Multi-platform support
• Simulator for education and training of operators
• Flexible and scalable

Tratec Norcon has over 20 years of experience with WinCC OA in Norway, and has the country's strongest expertise in the system.

We have experience with the system in several market areas such as transport, power, municipal engineering, offshore and industry. Our largest customer installations in Norway include the Norwegian Public Roads Administration with the road traffic centre in Porsgrunn and the road traffic centre in Trondheim, and we have also delivered to several municipalities, including Sandefjord Municipality and Kristiansand Municipality.

SIMATIC WinCC OA is recognised worldwide as a technologically leading system for centralised monitoring. You'll find this SCADA system in almost every industry, from tunnel monitoring, power plants, heavy industry, and water and gas supply, to the New York Subway and the European research centre CERN.

ABOUT WINCC OA

WinCC Open Architecture (OA) began as an independent product developed by ETM in Austria. At the time, the software was called PVSS. ETM was founded in 1985. They are active in 45 countries and have delivered more than 7,000 projects. ETM is now owned by Siemens, and in their portfolio WinCC OA is positioned as the solution for large and complex systems with high customisation requirements. "Tratec Norcon has very good experience of using WinCC OA in small to medium-sized systems, and we use it in everything from small single-machine solutions to large distributed systems.

Tratec Norcon is a certified ETM Premium Solutions Partner in Norway on SIMATIC WinCC OA.

BENEFITS WITH WINCC OA

OPEN AND EFFICIENT
WinCC OA is designed to be an open system. The purpose behind WinCC OA was to develop a flexible and independent SCADA system that was not linked to any particular hardware or manufacturer. That's why they now have a number of drivers available for connecting directly to third-party systems. And even though they were acquired by Siemens, this is a feature they have retained. WinCC OA supports a number of different operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Solaris. WinCC OA naturally supports virtualisation.

SCALABLE
WinCC OA is an event-based system, which makes it suitable for handling extreme amounts of IO and interconnected systems. As many as 2,048 servers can be assembled in a single distributed system, handling up to 10 million IO.

DISTRIBUTED
Communication between WinCC OA systems is based on TCP, which simplifies the distribution of systems. Deployment refers to the interconnection of multiple systems into one large system. This makes sense in terms of deploying servers, but WinCC OA also supports the deployment of managers. One concrete and widely used example in our systems is the distribution of OPC DA clients to the machine on which the OPC DA server is running. This means you get both OPC server and client on one and the same machine, which simplifies the DCOM setup. The situation is different with OPC UA solutions, but this is a concrete example. Another advantage is that you can expand the system at speed, without restarting or affecting the already running system.

SAFE
WinCC OA is secure and supports redundancy with a hot standby server. There are also disaster recovery solutions where you can have redundant systems located in different locations. Redundant network solutions can also be used. WinCC OA is also SIL3 certified in combination with the Siemens driver.

OBJECT-ORIENTATED
WinCC OA is an object-orientated system built around the principle of software building blocks. This is certainly well-known technology, and it is by no means new or unique.

CUSTOMISABLE
The scripting language is based on ANSI C, and appears very open. One thing that is very special about WinCC OA is that much of the graphical user interface used in engineering is the same as that used in the runtime system. This allows for customisation and standardised solutions all the way from the engineering phase to the operational phase, as well as proprietary engineering routines in one and the same tool. This opens up a whole new way of working and is extremely elegant. One example is the way we create and address objects - we use the same procedure whether we work from runtime or in the engineering tool. Using WinCC OA's scripting language, you can also use the system as middleware for solutions beyond classic SCADA solutions.

Improve efficiency with SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture - contact Tratec Norcon!