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SCADA: WinCC or LabView?

I am doing real time project for DAQ system using Siemens S7 300 PLC. Please suggest which is better for SCADA: WinCC, Labview or Others. Graphics is first priority for this project.

    Vincent C
    Posted 6 months ago

    First off, I am bias since I work for National Instruments.

    You first need to know how you will talk to your PLC. One standard is OPC. There is also Modbus.

    If you want to directly talk PROFIBUS, then you need a PCI or PXI PROFIBUS card: http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/204268

    To learn about different ways of connecting to a PLC with LabVIEW, please read: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5407

    You should also add the LabVIEW Datalogging Supervisory and Control module (LabVIEW DSC) to be more efficient in building your SCADA application. It is worth mentionning, that you can have unlimited Shared Variables (tags) with LabVIEW DSC. For more info on LabVIEW DSC: http://www.ni.com/labview/labviewdsc/

    Contact your local NI Sales Rep for a free meeting.
    http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/nicc.call_me?p_lang_id=us

    Hope this helps,

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