Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Programming And Operating Manual page 40

Operating and monitoring SFCs
6.5 "SFC Instance" faceplate, "Actual Values" view
3. The position text is used to display the current position within the sequencer. It consists of
a number and an assigned text. The text is displayed in the SFC faceplate.
4. The note text contains information for the operator. The operator can acknowledge this text
with the "O" button.
5. The line shows the active control strategy. The control strategy cannot be changed here.
The control strategy can only be selected in the "Prepared Values" view.
6. The setpoints and actual values assigned to the selected control strategy are displayed in
this table.
– Setpoint name
– Setpoint
– Actual value
– Unit
7. The following information and buttons can be seen (from top to bottom) in the overview:
– Selection of the view from the drop-down list
– "Synchronize" check box: If the check box is selected, the overview is synchronized with
The same line contains the following button:
Click this button to open the full overview as a resizable window.
– The sequencer is shown in small format in the lower window of the overview.
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A setpoint can consist of more than one value. In the example picture, the "sw6" setpoint
has the additional values "Material" and "Batch ID".
The current setpoints are displayed here. The setpoints can be edited if the "Actual
values view enabled" option is selected when configuring the properties of the control.
The configured upper and lower limit values are also shown during editing.
Note
If a setpoint is changed, the change must be confirmed by pressing the RETURN key
(exception: values with the Boolean data type). A window then opens in which the
change must be confirmed once more by clicking "OK". Otherwise, the change is not
adopted.
The values of the actual value output are displayed here.
The unit labels are displayed here.
the sequence in the AS.
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