SIMATIC WINCC OPEN ARCHITECTURE
Certified WinCC OA Basic Training

This one-week instructor-led course provides trainees with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully design and build a WinCC OA application. It is the base for all other WinCC OA trainings / workshops.
Article number 6AV6355-3BA00-0BA0

Prerequisites
Participating trainees should be PC literate (MS Windows, keyboard and mouse skills), have PLC and network knowledge. A basic knowledge of programming is of advantage. Trainees should bring a suitable laptop. A training copy of the WinCC OA software will be installed on this notebook as part of the training. A minimum specification for this PC is detailed in the note below. Training objectives On completion of this course the trainee will be able to produce a simple application and modify existing applications.

Content
• WinCC OA concepts: The managers, PARA module, GEDI module
• Control programming
• Animation of graphical objects / scripting
• References of graphical objects
• Panel topology
• User / permission management
• The alert concept
• Alert- and event screen
• Data point groups
• (Power)-configs
• Complex graphical objects
• Multi language support
• Zooming and (de)cluttering
• History-DB
• Archiving and archive compression
• Linking to the periphery
• Mass-engineering of configuration data
• Variable trend
• Working with scripts and libraries
• Online-Backup
• Emergency mode
• Module 1 – Redundant systems: communication in WinCC OA, requirements for „Hot-Standby“ redundancy, WinCC OA system in detail, redu-switching in detail, redundant LAN-connections, failure modes in redundancy, LAN-connections, priorities for system switching, message logic: peripherals → WinCC OA
• Module 2 – Distributed systems

Computer Requirements:
WinCC OA only supports 64bit-operating systems!
Hardware and software, except for WinCC OA, are not provided and must be brought by the participant.
The minimum hardware and software requirements are as follows:
• Processor Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 with 2.2 GHz or similar
• RAM 4 GB
• HDD 5GB free disk space
• Graphic 1280 x 1024
• Input Keyboard, mouse and USB-port (required)
• Windows 11 Enterprise, Windows 10 LTSC 2021 (Build Version: 10.0.19044.5965), Windows Server 2022 (Build-Version: 10.0.20348.3807), Linux RedHatEnterprise, Linux 9 (Build-Version: 9.6), Oracle® Linux 9 (Build-Version: 9.6), Debian
• Optional VMware Cluster (HA) ESXi 7.0 Update 1* (supported by all operating systems which are mentioned above)
• Optional software Microsoft Excel 2016, Excel 365 1912 (Only 32bit Excel versions can be used for the WinCC OA Excel-report.)