Siemens SIMATIC ET 200AL System Manual page 1570

What's new in the PROFINET function manual, version 12/2017 compared to version 09/2016
This manual (version 12/2017) encompasses the following new functions compared to the
previous version (version 09/2016):
Function Applications
Specifying the router You can specify the IP address of a router for
for a PROFINET IO each IO device. You reach the IO device from
device outside the IP subnet through the router.
Configuring an IO You can detect an existing IO device and enter
device through hard- it in your project.
ware detection
Asset management You can centrally manage non-PROFINET com-
ponents (assets) of a PROFINET device. The
PROFINET device makes the identification data
of the assets available for evaluation via a
standardized data record.
Asset manage- Special application of asset management: From
ment data record for I- the point of view of a higher-level IO controller,
devices the modules plugged into the I-device repre-
sent assets. The user program in the I-device
compiles the asset management data record.
The IO controller can read identification data of
the I-device modules through this data record.
PROFINET with STEP 7
Function Manual, 05/2021, A5E03444486-AL
Your benefits
In the past, it was only possible to specify a router
for a PROFINET IO interface at the IO controller.
The IO devices inherited the setting of the IO
controller interface.
Now you can set the router address independent-
ly of the IO controller setting. This allows, for
example, a router address at the IO device alt-
hough you have not set a router address or have
set a different address at the IO controller.
STEP 7 inserts the IO device with all the modules
and submodules into the project. Article numbers
and firmware versions between real and config-
ured IO devices match.
You reduce the project planning work required.
The new standardized PROFINET service makes it
possible to manage all the hardware and firm-
ware components of PROFINET devices centrally.
The possibilities available for filtering device data,
for example, depend on the range of perfor-
mance of the evaluating application.
See Asset management.
Preface
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