Table Of Contents - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Getting Started

Table of contents

1 Preface ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Creating the PCS 7 Project........................................................................................................................ 7
2.1 How to Create the PCS 7 Project ..................................................................................................7
3 Configuring the hardware and networks .................................................................................................. 11
3.1 How to Configure the Hardware...................................................................................................11
3.2 Editing the symbols in HW Config ...............................................................................................14
3.2.1 How to edit the symbols of the analog input module ...................................................................14
3.2.2 How to Edit the Symbols of the Analog Output Module...............................................................16
3.2.3 How to Edit the Symbols for the Digital Input Module .................................................................17
3.2.4 How to Edit the Symbols for the Digital Output Module...............................................................18
3.3 Configuring the MPI interface for the SIMATIC PC Station .........................................................19
3.3.1 How to Set Up the MPI Interface for the SIMATIC PC Station ....................................................19
3.4 Saving and compiling data in Netpro ...........................................................................................21
3.4.1 How to Save and Compile the Configurations in NetPro.............................................................21
3.5 Starting S7 PLCSIM.....................................................................................................................23
3.5.1 How to Start S7-PLCSIM .............................................................................................................23
3.6 Download to the PLC ...................................................................................................................25
3.6.1 How to download the MPI interface from NetPro to the PLC ......................................................25
4 Configuring the process tags and the sequence control .......................................................................... 27
4.1 How to Copy the CFC Charts from the Zip File to the Master Data Library ................................27
4.2 How to Copy the CFC Charts into the Project .............................................................................29
4.3 How to Configure the SFC Chart .................................................................................................31
4.4 How to Organize the Project Folder.............................................................................................34
5 Preparing the plant display for automatic generation ............................................................................... 37
5.1 How to Prepare the Plant Display for Automatic Generation.......................................................37
6 Creating a Unit_B by Copying unit_A ....................................................................................................... 39
6.1 How to Create Unit_B by Copying Unit_A....................................................................................39
7 Programming and interconnecting the process tags ................................................................................ 41
7.1 How to program and interconnect the process tags ....................................................................41
8 Compiling and downloading..................................................................................................................... 45
8.1 How to Compile and Download Objects ......................................................................................45
8.2 How to Set the CPU to RUN/P in S7-PLCSIM.............................................................................49
9 Operating and monitoring the process ..................................................................................................... 51
9.1 How to Operate and Monitor the Process....................................................................................51
Index........................................................................................................................................................ 57
First Steps (V7.1)
Getting Started, 03/2009, A5E02122181-01
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