--- title: SIMATIC WinCC Reviews meta_title: 'SIMATIC WinCC Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 73 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SIMATIC WinCC works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 73 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-15' parent_category: name: Manufacturing url: https://www.g2.com/categories/manufacturing --- # SIMATIC WinCC Reviews **Vendor:** Siemens Digital Industries Software **Category:** [Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/supervisory-control-and-data-acquisition-scada) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 73 ## About SIMATIC WinCC SIMATIC WinCC Professional Siemens offers a SCADA system which is perfectly integrated in the TIA Portal and with which you are optimally prepared today for the requirements of the increasing digitalization of production processes. ## SIMATIC WinCC Reviews ### 1. Best industry software for design to HMI and SCADA. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subham K. | Production Engineer, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2023 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Simatic WinCC is easy-to-understand and user-friendly software. if we create an HMI with the help of the simulation feature we can see the design side by side and rectify the errors. if there is a new employee in the company we can teach him all the features of SIMATIC WinCC within a couple of days to hands-on the software. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** I am faced with a problem when we take backup for one HMI to another PC; it is a time-consuming process. if we are using old version HMI with new version HMI it is required for updation in SIMATIC WinCC. when we use SIMATIC WinCC there are some communication problems during working time. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** If there is any error in machine SACDA we can troublesot the errors and resolve them from SIMANTIC WinCC. ### 2. Automation software for every industry **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2023 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** SIMATIC WINCC has a lot of powerful aspects including its ability to provide real time data analytics, and automated tasks. Additionally it is highly costomizable and user friendly, making it simple to set up und use. It is also secure, with industrial level enctyption and authentication measures, ensuring data privacy and security. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** One of the negative aspect about using SIMATIC WinCC is that it can be completed to set up, as it requires a specific configurations of the system software, additionally the cost can be prohibitive for some users, making it more suitable for a larger companies with a greater budgets. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simatic WinCC can solve a variety of problems, such as increasing operational efficiency, reducing costs and improuving safety. It can be used to automate processes, create powerful annalytics and monitor operations in real time. It can help improve visibility into complex processes. Enabling me to make decisions faster. ### 3. Simatic WinCC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2023 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** 1.Its Data Reporting structure. 2. User management. 3. Software is user friendly and adhere to 21 CFR part 11 Compliant. 4.Easy to creat recipies and phase sequenses. 5.Can run SIP and CIP phases easily. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** It may get hang during the operation sometimes which relates to data loss also may get communication loss with PLC. Restart take around 40 mins, which needs to improve. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** WinCC solving the major manufacturing operations challenges of pharmaceutical company by automating the process and reducing man power and resource optamization. ### 4. Strong application, especially in process control like FGD, WTP, WWTP , CPP in Power plant **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Le M. | Senior Process Control Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** '- When designing the face plate to control the device such as control vale, Pump, and cylinder. , helpful for designers in programing with specific functions with common cases and special cases. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** '- so difficult for maintenance /troubleshooting purposes, when you do loop check and function check. requiring to force signal, also from alarm control to identify the trigger signal by checking logic. - From HMI, the object on HMI to check further in Logic of PLC 300, 400 ( example). It's hard to check in some case, especially, if the programmer uses the Scrips function.. Etc. - For alarm and event, when you copy archiving data outsite the station for incident investigation , It is very hard to read them to check what happened at the timing if you don't have required sofware. The control alarm/ events are strongly for configuration but Wincc should equipt a report export function. with **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Normally, SIMATIC Wincc together with Siemens PLC ( 300/400) is strong for the process control system. I frequently select them when we awarded a contract such as designing a control system for FGD, WWTP, WTP, CPP ( Power pant project ). ### 5. Top Tier Scada System with room for improvement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jassim A. | Automation Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Considering Wincc has been around for a long time there is a wide array of resources to choose from when it comes to developing or troubleshooting issues. Scalable Projects Supports various communication protocols **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Service and supports needs to be improved. Scipt language is limited. Software is bulky and prone to crashes **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Powerful tool , High number of features due to which the complexity also increases **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easier to integrate with Siemens Controllers since siemens plcs are widely used in the region. New features like drag and drop in Wincc V7.5 Reduces Engineering time Tag Simulation makes it easy to test the Scada without the need to connect to a control system ### 6. Automation Engineer for the past 10 Years, having multiple projects in scada. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zubair K. | Automation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** 1. Professional environment with the best support. 2. best graphics with software integrity with database 3. linking with third-party plc manufacturers with providing complete control. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** 1. too much expensive 2. Price includes the tag count. 3. Scada needs maintenance, which also exceeds the price cost. 4. wincc is windows based so which means if you even hate windows you still have to use it. **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** 1. Expensive and needs professional skills to be used. 2. no Official videos are provided for training purposes or to make it useful to be familiar with the environment. 3. Having a professional environment so makes user information valuable. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. making the database for a drip manufacturing industry where every login counts to make it countable who is running operations including how time for process to be run . ### 7. Very helpful with SCADA System at WWTP **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thavreak C. | Field Service Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Easy to use, Operate, and maintenance. everything runs automatically every day, don't require an operator or main power to monitor the whole system, really usefull for our operation plant. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Sometimes we got software not responding after restarting our workstation, and needed us to kill the software task and reopen software manually otherwise it still stuck as aways. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** I got a task to create a button to create the daily report of WWTP and generate to our storage, and Wincc really easy to complete that task since i just do it in 5minutes. ### 8. SCADA with flexible and easy to use add ons **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kashir S. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** An easy to use software in which you can link your PLC tags in different ways like direct link or indirectly link through c or VB coding. Moreover you can customise your screens and pop up screens and use it by multiplexing the tags with a standard template screen. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** In SIMATIC WINCC the main disdvantage is the limitation of tags. And its cost. Also you have to buy add ons like OPC DA/ OPC UA server etc. The minimum scan cycle of tag is 500ms which is greater for a SCADA system. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** SIMATIC WINCC is meeting to all the modern requirements of SCADA systems. Specially the WINCC SERVER client based system. By using the customised reports generation we can optimize our production data and can take preventive maintenance steps. ### 9. Simatic WinCC is a well known SCADA **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdul R. | Senior Design & Application Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It is very much easy to integrate with any PLC. It supports almost every driver to configure with different brands of PLCs on most latest communication protocols. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Whenever we use PCS7 DCS then it seems like we are using WinCC which create bad impression on customer and it has been considered by customer that it is PLC based DCS. So WinCC interface must be different than PCS7. **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** It is best product of Siemens, I strongly recomment it. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating HMI or mimics is pretty much easy. Just we need to add the PLC tag on each object then it has ability to automatically communicate with PLC and every data can be easily monitored through SCADA easily. ### 10. Highly Impressive Process Visualization Software for SCADA Applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Salman A. | Senior Manager Reliability and Projects, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Great process visualization library, user-friendly design environment and extensive technical support. I have been using WinCC with SIMATIC PLCs and PLCSim. It can be used for almost any SCADA application. It's highly scalable and comes with various add-ons to support the development. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** WinCC covers almost everything about SCADA Visualization. It is a windows based software which I do not like much. I wish they make it independent of OS in future. **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** it is a good SCADA software for all process visualization applications. If you do not have a budget constraint then simply go for it. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great Visualization and extensive trending tools. I use it for my process automation projects. It helps me develop good SCADA applications. ### 11. I found this platform very helpful still need some improvement but it do the function very good. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mostafa I. | Electrical maintenance deputy manager , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** calling tags is very easy. colors and animations also do the required tasks. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** - Disconnecting server if you going to update the screens. Although there is an option to update by updating using changes only, but this option easy to b malfunction and forces to entier download which require the server off. - system log file is not easy to understand more declarations need to be added to understand the failure causes. - deploying the changes takes much time other systems do the same action with no time. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it in controlling cement plants ### 12. The best so far scada software I've handled **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jhon Alfred B. | Commissioning Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Friendly user interface with PLC and other controller flatforms **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** I don't like the rapid change of version for the software yet only minimal change only seen as the difference from the previous versions **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Always choose simatic wincc on your projects since covers most of the functions that most of plant process have plus it is a very user friendly scada software with an amazing features that you can always used to improve/enhaced your project's output. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plant process solutions that has been made easier through the use of WINCC functions ### 13. I am using wincc professional v7.4,it is user friendly and easy to access software. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun s. | PLC Automation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Main page and screen creation are separate window.linking tags are easy.animation,scripts usage are useful.the addon for animation is really cool.linear scaling and automatic tag I'd address creation saves time. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** While tags are linked,after compiled and run in runtime,the tag values are not updated in runtime.again delete that tag and link another time,then give compile and runtime it is updated. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Graphics are easily understood,saves time,while semi-automatic it gives quick response to take necessary action,data logging is easily diagnose the issue,and alarm logging is helpful to find problem ### 14. Its a very powerful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aruna K. | Head Of Department Technical, Senior Electrical & Electronics Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Almost all connectivity for a lot of functions and supports many platforms of third-party software and Programmable logic controllers. A lot of readymade functions for standard applications are also available for easy use. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Sometimes it is hard to use tags and also needs a bit of expert knowledge to hadle communication links. Even its platform need to link in two different way through tags. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly as a SCADA software and software for siemens Human-machine interface panels. To link programmable logic controller with HMI and wright functions and instructions. ### 15. Simatic WinCC is highly scale able and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amir M. | Automation Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It is very easy to maintain and troubleshoot. Tag management is easy and trends provide past data in excel is impressive feature. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** reduce my laptop speed sometimes stuck during runtime simulation **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** sometimes clients demand runtime simulation in the local host So I use WinCC webux to share runtime simulation on local Enthernet ### 16. Amazing and useful software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed B. | Automation Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It's very helpful to use for industrial automation and easy to troubleshoot **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** The animations did not the best the Siemens company should improve it more than that **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Using the help of software it's very useful **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving the vision of all site on one screen and keep the equipments safe ### 17. A Siemens SCADA Platform That Easy To Implement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dharshan s. | DCS Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Robust interface for easy visuals, great for automation process flow, remote management productivity, scalable **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Proprietary software, Cost for licensing and software, and specialist training is required **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** large scale manufacturing unit, with many Complex SCADA screens, it help me to solve operation selection screen complexity ### 18. senior instrument and control DCS control engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** helmy s. | SPPA T3000 Commissioning I&C engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** it is easy to modulate HMI and configure objects **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** it is need a lot of training to know some of its tricky feature **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** it's useful to use as an automation tool **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** how to connect multi hmi WINCC with multi simatic CPU ### 19. SCADA for Every Application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SATHYAMOORTHY V. | Senior Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Ease of Access. Built-in Libraries for many Operations. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Nothing seems to dislike. Probably improvements are to be made on the Third Party Hardware Communications, especially via OPC. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly I use it for Oil and Gas Storage Terminal Operations. ### 20. WinCC A Classic Choice **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** WinCC is user-friendly and easy to develop static screens. More Options for Objects Dynamization.Can be used for high-end applications with complex structures. TIA WinCC Professional is even more user-friendly and with more options for animations. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** The problem is WinCC classic is very bulky and software issues occur many times. WinCC Professional is having few limitations as compared to WinCC Classic. When using WinCC Classic if the small issue occurred with your PC System soon as WinCC Stops functioning and backup will give you errors while opening. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** The advantage of using WinCC Systems like these are stand-alone and can be used for small systems as well as for larger systems. It offers many functions to connect to servers and save data logs etc. ### 21. SIMATIC WinCC review as a developer and a user **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It is easier to use with sirmens PLC, It is easier to simulate and can be done without a HMI for testing. The passwords cannot be hacked easily. Editing, alignment and design is simple and it comes with the TIA portal itself **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** It does not have a table display.. to display arrays. Log files cannot be viewed without using browser option in the screen. Mapping each variable is very hard sometimes for actions, events, etc comapred to other HMI's **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** In field of work for testing, instead of using testzig it can be used, which reduces cost. It is easier to use with siemens PLC where tags can be easily called. ### 22. Best User friendly SCADA system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saad R. | Assistant Manager DCS/PLC, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Great Community and Support/help desk, It has a great graphics library available which makes it easy to design Industrial process **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** It doesn't show graphs sometimes when we download the server station **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** This is a very handy and easy to use software and has very good support, could be used easily to make your automation easy **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me design Industrial Processes and helped me automate a daily job ### 23. User friendly software in “control systems” for Industrial environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajshekar T. | Electrical design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Easy and quick to understand with Digital I/O. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Sometimes response time is slow. But since the result will not produce any error. Cannot be concluded as a major drawback. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Industry 4.0 is evolving with such high demand in industrial plants. The product is helping in accessing the data and controlling it efficiently by connecting to RTU. With a clear understanding, it’s benefitting me to operate smoothly using SIMATIC WinCC. ### 24. Field Service Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ahmed z. | Field Services Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** The Hmi and controller of Siemens are very common and so the software is also commonly used. Also, its compatible with most OPC for the link with different controller **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** the graphic icons are still old fashion and need to be updated to newly shaped especially the 3D shapes. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** the compatibility with different foreign controllers makes the configuration of communication easier ### 25. 5 years experience to deal with SIMARIC WinCC software. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Easy to be used. Smoothness of the software. Applicable to multiple of Microsoft Operating System. Lesser maintenance and easy troubleshooting. Cost is cheaper. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Cross-reference function is not so convenient. Symbol libraries are limited. Software interfaces are sometimes found complicated especially for those who are not familiar. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** A control among the machines and systems in most of the production industry like food & beverage, oil & gas, machinery factory and even the high rise building. Operators who are using the end product will control the system at few locations, lesser troubleshooting due to the alarming system in the SIMATIC WinCC. ### 26. Smart, modular and secure operational reliability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zohaib A. | Assistant Manager Mechanical, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Simatic manager is the best solution for process control automation and power plant operation. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** No downsides observed so far related t Wincc. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** As I mentioned earlier that it is the best solution for automating power plant operations thus reducing manpower costs and less downtime for carrying out the important tasks ### 27. I worked with it in lots of water and waste water industry **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Islam A. | Controls Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** I like its tool and how it is so simple for communication with siemens plc **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** but I wouldn't say I like its graphical interface and the shapes of its buttons and switches **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** it is a powerful tool and it is so stable software with a helpful debugging tool **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** the prober way of interfacing between the system and end-user ### 28. It is a fantastic SCADA, has flexibility to use in any kind of application. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** AVIJIT S. | Technical Business Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Irrespective of application type this SCADA has all the functionality to seamlessly dedvelop most advanced and demanding requirements. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Need a steep learning curve to handle this SCADA **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Through its indirect addressing & script functionality we can handle batch based engineering very efficiently. ### 29. Mirza Wajahat Baig **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MIRZA WAJAHAT B. | DCS Engineer - Process control, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Easy configuration for a new object You can achieve almost any you want **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Reliablity on big scale projects is something I'm always worried about **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using SIMATIC WinCC for SCADA/DCS additionally it's helping us with calculation within HMI we don't need any third party software for that ### 30. Its user friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Glass, Ceramics & Concrete | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Well, i personally feel SIMATIC is easy to work with and meets all the requirements required for display and control of plant operations. Moreover, it is user friendly. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** As every software or application may have some demerits along with multiple advantages, SIMATIC WinCC sometimes gets hanged. It may be mostly due to poor condition of Computer. **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Give some helping tutorials. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, SIMATIC WinCC gives an easy way to display and offer an understandable control grouping of different machines which is helpful for the smooth operation of the plant. ### 31. why SIMATIC is the best **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ahmed k. | control system engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It is one of the new and good systems for use in control systems **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Maybe the price is a little high and cant change to much in it **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me in a small project to detect problems and tack action with it the benefit help me in the company to save peoples in project ### 32. It's a nice tool for automation activity also user friendly. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit B. | Deputy Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Alarm Logging Tag linking Asset management User administrator all aspects are good. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Graphics Designer quality editing & tools application need to be improve **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** It's easy to learn & good application for automation industry **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Substation automation, power plants for data monitoring & controls mostly WinCC application is used by power industry. ### 33. very reliable to use and design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arvind K. | Asst EIE Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** very reliable to use and lot of advanced specs and more popular, we can easily modify And develop all kind of works and program ,script writing was so and so good to use **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** nothing noooooooooooooooooooothinggggggggggggggggggggggggggg **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** all sort of automations we can easily develop and change accordingly with this software ### 34. Live and under control **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bektaş Aykut A. | Electronics Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Flexible design process and speed of application **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Pictures and icons on HMI and bad support for HMIs like KTP600 **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** With WinCC, we control a water treatment plant. It is easy with WinCC screens to maintain the site. ### 35. WinCC is easier than the other vendors **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Osama T. | Electrical Maintenance & Instrumentation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It is very easy to use and maintain i have been dealing with other vendors and it was complix to modify on them. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Nothing at all in comparison with the other vendors **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used it in the rewinder machine and it was very simple to the operator ls to use more than ABB DCS ### 36. I am 8 years experienced PLC/SCADA Programmer, so I recommended this Siemens brand **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vedangan K. | PCS Automation Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Communicating with third party Systems is flexible............ **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** I have tried all Siemens software, I love to use all softwares **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Easy to Use and online supports available **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Free licensing from Siemens portal is helpful in learning automation skills. ### 37. SIMATIC is generally used only with Siemens PLC **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mazin A. | Consulting Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It's a powerful software with almost all the features of a modern Scada software. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** You can only use Siemens support to upgrade or buy the new versions, it's generally not available with system integrators. **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** It's a powerful tool. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scada connectivity with ease. ### 38. SIMATIC WinCC, user friendly and economical **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark V. | Instrumentation & Controls Technician (Process & Machine Monitoring), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** The way it integrates automation devices especially the way programs are implemented, such ease to everyone's job **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Nothing in particular, if there's any, updates are immediately impolemented **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** The way automation equipment are programmed and the ease of maintaining the system with an incredible ease. ### 39. I have been applied SIMATIC WINCC for some projects, so I also have a lot of experiences. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viet L. | Instrument and Control Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** User interface programming is friendly with new programers. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Not flexible when applied for substation control system. Difficult when using communication protocol such as IEC60870-5-104, IEC61850, DNP3,... **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product gives me the automation solution for some systems in thermal power plants. ### 40. The Simatic WinCC is flexible to work with. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel L. | Instrumentation|Automation|Controls, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It is very flexible and it is user friendly **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** The software itself is limited to the 200 Controllers **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very handy especially when implementing simple process controls. It is great economic wise and allows for faster programming. ### 41. Perfect tool/software. easy to use/user friendly. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad A. | Jobless, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Perfect integration between software and hardware. Also, you can make different screens using tags, and monitor different parameters. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Cost is high and some limitations regarding tags. **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Highly recommended. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving all types of modern systems requirements. ### 42. winCC **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed S. | Graduation Projects External Evaluator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Supporting platforms, so i can get answers to questions like how to. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Scripting in visual basic. It's good to allow further programming but limiting developers to use only vb. I hope if it contains c scripting **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enhancing visualization to the human machine interface ### 43. Simatic WinCC was my first SCADA experience, it is very user friendly and has lots of functionality. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** The most important advantages of this platform are its simplicity and multifunctionality. Also, it was designed for large projects and performed successfully. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Installation and setting up should be improved a bit. When you did a small mistake, sometimes it would destroy the entire project. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me to solve complex projects with simple steps easily. Also, simulations are more realistic and helpful to describe the situation to the customer. ### 44. Scada engineer -wincc **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mouli P. | Deputy Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Data acquisition management Tag management User interface **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Installation time and updation File sizes **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Good for data acquisition and tag management **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data acquisition and tag management User interface Quick response to alerts ### 45. Programing hmi **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed M. | TBM Senior Electrical & plc Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Simple and easy and flexible and alot of graphics and features **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Communication protocols need to be increased and open to work with other plcs **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very compatable with s hardwere and flexible for modification ### 46. Simple to use and efficient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ahmed a. | Mechatronics Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Carries out all the options and easy use **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Nothing is missing but the app should run on fast pc **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Upgrading to help users to use simatic winCC and to avoid any lag or dismissing of data ### 47. Very useful and convenient for use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hussam A. | P, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Customised and easy to learn. Wide range of available graphic features **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Licenses prices are very expensive and needs more example projects **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supporting a lot of graphics and communication connections with plc ### 48. Simatic wincc **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It's design and graphics,easy digitisation of signals **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Too much license, sql interface and trouble in logging. **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Easy scada representation for Siemens plc and other rtu makes support lot of communication protocol. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** User friendly blocks and data migration ### 49. It is very flexible **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahmood Q. | High Voltage Power Transformer maintenance Supervisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Flexibility is what distinguish it from the other softwares **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** I do not know if there is anything could be considered as a drawback. **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** You need to have a good understanding of mapping **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the Visualization problem ### 50. Good for critical applications **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gajanan M. | Application Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Functionality, detailing, support, documents, for critical application **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Time consuming, not much user friendly, expensive **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Good for critical applications **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having prebuilt contrywise typicals, it can save lot of time, specially for outside country projects ## SIMATIC WinCC Discussions - [What is SIMATIC WinCC used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-simatic-wincc-used-for) - [Communication with RTU](https://www.g2.com/discussions/communication-with-rtu) - 1 upvote - [Pre built typicals for japan country, not much aware about their standards](https://www.g2.com/discussions/pre-built-typicals-for-japan-country-not-much-aware-about-their-standards) - 1 upvote - [View SIMATIC WinCC pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/simatic-wincc/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-23+21%3A12%3A23+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0fbd76f0-4a0e-421d-8ac6-9bdff78c8225&secure%5Btoken%5D=3da8f8e07405547f2b587270f9c4b0d7f88beacc0766e908042b6d0784d8112a&format=llm_user) ## SIMATIC WinCC Features **Monitoring** - Compatibility - Interface - Dashboards - Alerts **Control** - Locations - Adjustments - Remote Access ## Top SIMATIC WinCC Alternatives - [AVEVA Edge](https://www.g2.com/products/aveva-edge/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (30 reviews) - [Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY](https://www.g2.com/products/proficy-hmi-scada-cimplicity/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (22 reviews) - [Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX](https://www.g2.com/products/proficy-hmi-scada-ifix/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (12 reviews)