Upgrades from SIMATIC PCS 7 V7.1 to V8.0

You can learn here about the upgrade packages that are available for upgrading SIMATIC PCS 7 V7.1 to V8.0, and the system components that are involved in the various upgrade packages.

The upgrades are divided into:

• Upgrades for Engineering System including Advanced Engineering
• Upgrades for Operator System including Web Option and OpenPCS 7
• Upgrades for SIMATIC BATCH
• Upgrades for SIMATIC Route Control
• Upgrades for Maintenance Station

Products outside the SIMATIC PCS 7 range

Upgrades for products from the range of Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) but which do not directly belong to the product range of SIMATIC PCS 7 and are therefore subject to their own version cycle are summarized in a separate Section "Updates/asynchronous upgrades for the PCS 7 version". These include, for example:

• Software for process safety
• SIMATIC PDM
• S7-PLCSIM simulation software
• SIMATIC NET communications software

Information is also provided there on the relationship between the various product versions and the SIMATIC PCS 7 versions.