leem2209
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Hey folks... I've been thrown into the deep end of a dodgy pool. A life line would be appreciated.
Our one and only resident PCS7 knowledgable engineer has left the building. Let's pretend his name was elvis.
So Elvis was the only guy who maintained, updated and gathered data using the PCS7. When he left people panicked. Except me. I saw it as an opportunity. And as such it's now in my hands to deal with this little issue.
We had a new machine installed which replaced an old knackered machine.
There are hard wired and signals from the DCS to the machine. Mainly, run, critical alarm and two confirmation signals from attached valves. These basically mimicked the old machine except some of the signals had to be high instead of low and low instead of high. That was no big issue to resolve in the DCS by inverting relevant bits. This has been enough to get the machine running.
Now we are trying to establish the comms between the WinCC and the machine which has an S7-1215 CpU. This give temp, pressure and flow readings and alarm messages too.
I have been working with our local siemens service engineer, who also admits that pcs7 isn't his strongest point and between us we cannot get comms to the WinCC.
The machine is connected on the simaticnet network. The engineering station doesn't have an IP address as the networks are ISO configured (hope you understand that bit) we have tried using IP address and MAC address to reach the CpU to no avail. We have a PG station on the network too with TiA portal and that connects no problem, as that has its own IP for the network.
Any ideas how to set up the comms in WinCC?
Cheers you awesome bunch!
Our one and only resident PCS7 knowledgable engineer has left the building. Let's pretend his name was elvis.
So Elvis was the only guy who maintained, updated and gathered data using the PCS7. When he left people panicked. Except me. I saw it as an opportunity. And as such it's now in my hands to deal with this little issue.
We had a new machine installed which replaced an old knackered machine.
There are hard wired and signals from the DCS to the machine. Mainly, run, critical alarm and two confirmation signals from attached valves. These basically mimicked the old machine except some of the signals had to be high instead of low and low instead of high. That was no big issue to resolve in the DCS by inverting relevant bits. This has been enough to get the machine running.
Now we are trying to establish the comms between the WinCC and the machine which has an S7-1215 CpU. This give temp, pressure and flow readings and alarm messages too.
I have been working with our local siemens service engineer, who also admits that pcs7 isn't his strongest point and between us we cannot get comms to the WinCC.
The machine is connected on the simaticnet network. The engineering station doesn't have an IP address as the networks are ISO configured (hope you understand that bit) we have tried using IP address and MAC address to reach the CpU to no avail. We have a PG station on the network too with TiA portal and that connects no problem, as that has its own IP for the network.
Any ideas how to set up the comms in WinCC?
Cheers you awesome bunch!