Technical Specifications

Main Features and Advantages

128 PowerTags runtime with Asia 5-language stack

The Siemens 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ grants exactly 128 external WinCC tags — sufficient for a small single-user station on a packaging line, skid-local HMI+SCADA, or a client node in a larger multi-server estate. The “Asia” localization means menus, alarm texts, and online help render in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and English — critical for plants in CN/KR/JP/TW where GMP documentation must be in local language and where the engineering team runs Chinese Windows. The 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ runtime reads a compiled project built on an RC seat (same version!), so the 128-tag cap only gates how many external variables the RT PC can subscribe to, not how many total tags exist in the RC project (the RC seat typically carries a larger tier).

V7.0 graphics and alarm innovations vs. V6.2

Running a project under the Siemens 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ unlocks the V7.0-specific designer improvements that V6.2 cannot render: semi-transparency, gradient fills, drop shadows, centralised colour-palette and design-scheme switching (day/night theme toggle without duplicating screens), and new container objects — combo box, list bar, multi-line text box, multimedia control (play WMV/MP3 on the SCADA for operator alert). The “panel” (reusable graphical object with embedded dynamics) debuted here, letting the 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ execute faceplates authored once and dropped on 20 pumps without 20 copies of VBA. Alarm Control on the 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ removes the old row cap — unlimited alarm rows display, with per-user filter presets and export to CSV. Tag Logging and WinCC Logging archives land in SQL Server 2000 with compression; a 128-tag runtime typically archives a few hundred ms resolution on 30–50 values without hitting SQL Express limits.

Openness: VBA, VBScript, ODK, OPC, OLE-DB

A key reason plants still hoard the Siemens 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ is the scripting surface. Graphics Designer embeds VBA for author-time automation (batch-tag-creation, bulk-faceplate-wiring), while runtime executes VBScript on events (tag change, alarm come-in, button click) — the 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ can thus run logic that doesn’t belong in the PLC (MIS roll-up, daily KPI calc, email alerts via CDO). The ODK (Open Development Kit, C-API) lets third-party DLLs plug in; OPC DA/HDA serves the 128 tags upward to an MES; WinCC OLE-DB lets Excel pull archive via Dat@Monitor option. For plants where the SCADA also doubles as the OPC server for a corridor of old Intouch/iFix nodes, the 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ is often the cheapest Siemens-brand bridge.

Scalable client/server + WebNavigator + FDA path

Although the Siemens 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ is “only” 128 tags, it can sit as a client against a larger WinCC server (RC 65536 or RC 262144) — the RT 128 license fee-gates only the local tag subscription, not the client role. With WebNavigator option installed on the 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ PC, the runtime also serves HTML pages to remote IE clients (pre-HTML5, ActiveX-based) — still used on old mill networks where Chrome rollout broke things. For pharma/food, adding WinCC/Audit + SIMATIC Logon to a 6AV6381-2BC07-0AV0​ station achieves FDA 21 CFR Part 11 (electronic signature, audit trail on tag writes & alarm ack) — a combo that kept many V7.0 stations alive past 2015 because re-validation on V7.4 would have cost more than the DCS upgrade.