Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Operating Manual page 153

Start SIMATIC PDM ASSET Service
Note
Note that you must manually restart the SIMATIC PDM ASSET Service in the SIMATIC PDM
ASSET Service Manager on the engineering station once in order to receive data from PDM.
1. Click the following icon in the information area of the task bar of the operating system:
"Stop" button
When you click this button, the SIMATIC PDM Asset Service stops.
"Start" button
When you click this button, the SIMATIC PDM Asset Service starts.
"Allow automatic start/stop" check box
If this check box is selected, the Asset Service can be started and stopped by other components
(e.g. WinCC RTO, SAM, project archiving).
During archiving, the Asset Service is stopped and given a "lock flag" so that other components
cannot start the Asset Service and thereby interrupt the archiving.
If the Asset Service was activated prior to the archiving, it is started again automatically once
archiving is finished and the "lock flag" is removed.
Start and stop commands of the Asset Service Manager always have higher priority, for
example, they can start the Asset Service during ongoing archiving.
If this check box is not selected, the Asset Service can only be started and stopped by the
Asset Service Manager. The following applies:
● If the Asset Service is started, archiving will fail.
● If the Asset Service is stopped, all faceplate queries via SAM are rejected with an error.
Editing several PCS 7 projects with PDM
If you edit several projects in SIMATIC Manager with a PDM computer, you have to observe
the following sequence when you change between projects:
1. Stop the SIMATIC PDM ASSET Service on the PDM computer.
2. Stop the process mode on the maintenance station of the current project.
3. Open the required project in SIMATIC Manager.
4. Set the maintenance project in the SIMATIC Manager.
Help for SIMATIC PDM (V8.2)
Operating Manual, 02/2014, A5E33203676-AA
Start/stop the SIMATIC PDM ASSET Service.
The "SIMATIC PDM Asset Service Manager" dialog box opens.
Functions
7.10 Asset management
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