Hi, to start, I'm very new to Siemens PLCs, but quite experienced on others (mainly ABB). I'm looking to set up a profinet network between an ABB AC500 PLC and an S7-1200. The goal is to transfer variables from an existing S7-1200 (owned by the customer) to my new AC500. It is required that I do this without having to stop the S7-1200.

I can set up the AC500 as a profinet device, and have the S7-1200 remain as the controller, but this requires a config change on the S7-1200, which means I'd have to stop the PLC. I tried setting up the ABB as a profinet controller, but I'm having trouble finding a GSDML for the S7-1200 to allow me to do this.

Can anyone advise me on the best route to take to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.

Hello GBottle;

To setup the S7-1200 as a i-device and generating the needed gsdml file (including the data exchange areas of the i-slave configuration) you will have to work on the hardware configuration of the S7-1200, and a dowload (in Stop mode) will be required.

https://support.industry.siemens.com/tf//ww/en/posts/gsdml-s71200/185944?page=0&pageSize=10

Hope this helps,

Daniel Chartier 

GBottle

Hi, to start, I'm very new to Siemens PLCs, but quite experienced on others (mainly ABB). I'm looking to set up a profinet network between an ABB AC500 PLC and an S7-1200. The goal is to transfer variables from an existing S7-1200 (owned by the customer) to my new AC500. It is required that I do this without having to stop the S7-1200.

I can set up the AC500 as a profinet device, and have the S7-1200 remain as the controller, but this requires a config change on the S7-1200, which means I'd have to stop the PLC. I tried setting up the ABB as a profinet controller, but I'm having trouble finding a GSDML for the S7-1200 to allow me to do this.

Can anyone advise me on the best route to take to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.

 Hiii,

I'm Also looking for transfer data from my Siemens PLC ET200SP to ABB500 PLC on Profinet Protocol.

Can you please guide me.

Regards,

Makwana