Safety: Passivation and Reintegration of F-I/O

In the event of an error on an F-I/O (e.g. a channel fault), the F-I/O (or the affected channel) switches to safe mode. In this state of “passivation”, substitute values are automatically output instead of process values.

After clearing the error that caused the passivation, the switchover from substitute values to process values can occur. The switchover can be done automatically or after a user acknowledgment in the safety program. The switchover is referred to as “reintegration”.

The present safety application example describes the passivation and reintegration of F-I/O according to the following content:

• Manual and automatic reintegration
• RIOforFA PROFIsafe profile
• Value state and QBAD
• Differences in evaluation with F-CPUs S7-1200/1500 and S7-300/400

If you would like to reproduce the functions described here, the according TIA Portal project is available for you for the S7-1200 and the S7-1500.

Documentation and example project
  Documentation V2.0 for TIA Portal V14 (1,6 MB)
   Example project V2.0 for TIA Portal with S7-1200 F-CPU (2,1 MB)
   Example project V2.0 for TIA Portal with S7-1500 F-CPU (2,2 MB)

Archive
   Documentation V1.0 for STEP 7 V5.3 and S7 Distributed Safety (1,3 MB)
   Example project V1.0 for STEP 7 V5.3 and S7 Distributed Safety V5.4 (536,9 KB)

Last change
Update to STEP 7 V14

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