--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. good Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nivash k. | Lead Instrument & Control Electrical Engineer., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** C Script is very good to define any operation **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Symbols should more dynamic i.e. like more galzy **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** non **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** it should be more user friendly ### 2. Excellent experience with SIMATIC WinCC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmad R. | Instrumentation and Control Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Easy to use and understand language and **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Response time is slow for the simulation **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Yes easy to use and understand recommend for the new programmer **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** For Programming the PLC and HMI ### 3. Simple and easy to use, durable, and easy to update faceplates **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohmed M. | Not employed, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Makes the controlling of a process plant is a piece of cake **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** I can't figure out any disadvantage of wincc **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Almost eleminating human faults and minimize cost ### 4. Lake of must common comunication drivers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amr E. | Control Engineer II, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** siemens to siemens software compatibilities. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Lake of must common comunication drivers **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** WinCC has a large facility to build libraries with large capabilities. ### 5. An User Freindly SCADA. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** The Best part of WinCC is anyone can understand and The best part of WinCC is anyone can understand and it's best SCADA to learn or practise as a beginner. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Trend control/settings also graphical part need improvisation. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a beginner , when I start to developing SCADA , WinCC helps me to understand things easily and I learn SCADA by my own , that much user friendly it is . ### 6. Powerful graphic tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** - all Siemens PLC, DCS, and others products use SIMATIC WinCC. - Easy to use and be able to make changes online and offline. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** - Slow to open. - A lot of unnecessary options for configuring new pictures and tags. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Be able to control equipment and devices remotely. ### 7. Wincc review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Wincc is most powerful tool for scada system configuration. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Security control configuration is not properly implemented **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Looking forward to contribute more for security part **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security control. This will help to prevent attacks. I have done various analysis of wincc for security. Let me know if you want more attacks in detail with prevention mechanisms ### 8. efficient engineering with maximum data security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MD. Tajuddin A. | Asst. Manager Electrical and Automation Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It helps in controlling physical process involved in industries **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** limited I/O band local max I/O max of 8 module **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** It very user friendly ### 9. Ensure minimal downtime during any plant modification **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sakthi v. | Senior Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** visualization of entire plant operation and controls **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** I would say no dislike, never let me down during any modification and development **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Features and updates will solve all your requirements. ### 10. Its awesome software and easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** The easiest and its so simple and its give you so many acthions thats help to full describe the industrial process **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** The only thing i dislike about it is need to make one version use on all type of hmi **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its benfefiting me becuse i can connect it with not only seimens product ### 11. It's easy and clear to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It has a lot features and options and a lot of things to choose from. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** I think it needs more scenes and needs more icons. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves a lot of issues and the simplicity dilemma is the most important thing it solves. ### 12. Efficient SCADA for plant intelligence solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Santosh K. | Senior Engineer I4.0, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** WinCC is a perfect SCADA for complex processes, innovation and integration in TIA creates an ease to develop and modify the process requirements **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** It should have more features for the animation and inbuilt functions that can be done in a better way **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Go for it without a second thought, best in industry **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it everyday at all over the plant for all complex processes, the runtime of it is perfect to run the processes and understand the processes through animation ### 13. I have worked with WinCC software few years back for Substation Automation system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** The HMI configuration and database configuration. Designed for efficiency **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Nothing much. Sometimes feel slower update time. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** The HMI user interface was good and customers were happy compared to their previous system ### 14. My feedback **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Community, easy to use, easy to find help **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** help, i think i found this software is great **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can add the libraries we need, and we can do our graphics ### 15. WinCC Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Object based HMI Good backup and restore **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Difficult to learn Licensing hard to understand **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** HMI Solutions for small WTP/STP ### 16. it was good to use and a user friendly software to work on **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** We are using them on projects to communicate with long distance **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Though they are good at communication, I can find few cliches on screen sharing **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy sharing of information and a follow-up work. It greatful in achieving customer satisfaction ### 17. Friendly HMI software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Go trending and fine communication protocol **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Symbols are not with a very high resolution **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Suitable for siemens plc and profbus/net **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trending and easy communciation with plc ### 18. satisfaction of easy monitoring and integration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2022 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** the tags management and customize graphs **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** is too heavier even with server pc specs **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** monitoring on mining materials ### 19. Simatic WinCC review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2021 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Ease of scalability. It's easier to scale up the WinCC PLC-SCADA application, i.e., I used it to handle approx 250 I/Os without creating unknown errors in the process. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Report development and management in data logging applications is a bit tricky and is prone to unknown errors **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** WinCC is a better option for PLC-SCADA systems and is suitable for small to medium range process automations. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used WinCC in process automation such as for drying, crystallization, Solvent dispensing, etc. It is a good PLC-SCADA for small to medium-scale processes. ### 20. WinCC for HMI Application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Maritime | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2020 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Easy to Use Best in Market Integration with siemens family of PLC Supports cross platforms Easy to backup and retrieve Tutorials available online **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** No major dislikes SIEMENS is best in market **Recommendations to others considering SIMATIC WinCC:** Now TIA has took over for traditional and light usage WinCC is the goto one **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** HMI Screen for operator and maintenance personnel interface . ### 21. Mercedes of PLC programming **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ersin T. | Control Designer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** it is always updated and it is obvious that their concern is ease of use. It has everything you need for an industrial project **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** requires a lot of memory space and makes your computer work slower **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for factory automation and it is easy to connect Siemens PLCs and show real time data regarding the production line ### 22. A comprehensive software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2019 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** Now WinCC is mostly handled under one umbrella of TIA Portal which ties together programming for variety of different Siemens products and saves to a single project file. Nice part is all tags and communication protocols handles themselves when you are commissioning a system that includes multiple networked devices. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Unnecessarily complex. Usability is definitely sacrificed for a real huge library of things one probably might not need for 90% of things. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in offline HMI development. Can generate HMI alarm text from logic automatically. Saves lot of online and offline execution time. ### 23. Satisfied customer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ed C. | Product Development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about SIMATIC WinCC?** It is easy to use out of the box, is very reliable, and integrates easily with TIA portal. **What do you dislike about SIMATIC WinCC?** Not advancing fast enough to keep Pace with changing technology. **What problems is SIMATIC WinCC solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for simple remote access to user panels. It helps us respond to issues on widely distributed systems. ## 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?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-16+23%3A44%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a2305d89-2355-4ed2-90bc-5632da5ca029&secure%5Btoken%5D=b103bc866a7803de6a6d4d14ff2b8895439ab179c2c1a793a21ec2b75ecd432c&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)