Apf Engineering Tool; Introduction - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 System Manual

APF Engineering Tool

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Introduction

With the help of the APF engineering tool, you can configure the following APF modules:
● Material management
● Storage management
● Parameter management
● Archive management
You specify the data for the individual APF modules on a project-specific basis in the
engineering tool and generate user archives in which the data are saved. To enable access
from the AS to the user archives, you generate AS function blocks based on the data contained
in the APF engineering tool and interconnect these function blocks with the function blocks of
the User Archive Read Manager and User Archive Write Manager (FB_UA_RM and
FB_UA_WM). Upon request, the data are written to or read from the user archives.
During process control, you use pre-configured picture objects (process pictures and
faceplates) that are contained in the APF software package to perform operator control and
monitoring of the data configured using the APF engineering tool.
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