Representation Of The Components - Siemens Simatic PCS7 Function Manual

Operator control and monitoring

6.6 Representation of the components

● Field devices
– Hierarchically structured display of all configured field devices and remote I/O stations
● User objects
– User-created hierarchically structured representation of user objects
The selected area overview screen is displayed in the working area. The individual components
are displayed as block icons in the area overview screen.
Calling an area overview screen
You call the area screen as follows:
● Maintenance group display
● Hierarchy buttons in the button set
Function in area overview screen
The diagnostic screens of individual components from the area are called via the block icons
in the area overview screen.
6.6 Representation of the components
Introduction
The components to be monitored are displayed in the diagnostics screens as block icons in
the process control.
To get more information about a component, you can call the corresponding faceplate with a
mouse click.
Block icon
The block icons supported by the system which can be displayed in the diagnostic screens
are contained in the file "@@maintenancetypicals.pdl".
The file is located in the project directory under " ... \wincproj\<os-name>\GraCS".
You can find a description of block icons in the section "Block icon (Page 119)" and in the
section "Block icon for redundant components (Page 122)".
Faceplate
Faceplates display all information on a component with diagnostics capability in process mode.
This includes information that can be obtained by the component itself or from the project data.
When information is unavailable, the corresponding field is empty.
The faceplate is made up of the title of the screen window, the header and the different views.
You can change the view.
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