Mercury Basic Configuration Repetition 1

... manage and advice plants/sites with small to large size continuous or batch processing extensive functional requirements.

... control and monitor line/plants with small to medium size, simple and continuous production.

Pluto PCS is for complex processes

Mercury MES is suitable for big installations

The integration of 3^rd party machines is not possible with Mercury MES

The integration of 3rd party machines

WinCC

WcsVisu

WebVisu

InTouch Wonderware

A Mercury`s controllers communicate with an OPC Server. The OPC Server communicates with the PLC.

Mercury`s PLC controllers communicate directly with the PLC.

Mercury`s data access layer communicates with an OPC Server. The OPC Server communicates with the PLC.

exists only once per Mercury system. It coordinates the system and data access.

Hosts processes to distribute the process workload. Does not run any system relevant processes.

Hosts a tool to provide process data.

Can take over the role of another specific instance.