TP177B migration to TP700 Comfort

Hi,

We have a Step 7 Project version 5.5 with integrated HMI TP177B with WinCC flexible advanced version 2008 SP3.

As you aware these are now obsolete. What is the procedure to change HMI to TP700 comfort V14.0

Read some documentation regarding migration...Steps below

1. From WinCC - Copy from S7 function

2. TIA V14(TP700 Comfort Version 14.0) - Migrate function

3. Delete TP177B from S7 project and save as with slow reorganisation

Is there anything else to consider? Is there a way to keep this as one project?

Thanks in advance

Steve

Hello Steve.

As far as I know, you won't be able to keep your new version HMI in the same project as the PLC one.

You would have to migrate your Step 7 V5.5 project into a Step 7 V14 project.

And yes, you just use the migration tool on the winCC V14, its really easy, well, I've just done it with TIA V13 Wincc but I imagine is the same, worked perfectly.

Regards.

Rescobedo

Hello Steve.

As far as I know, you won't be able to keep your new version HMI in the same project as the PLC one.

You would have to migrate your Step 7 V5.5 project into a Step 7 V14 project.

And yes, you just use the migration tool on the winCC V14, its really easy, well, I've just done it with TIA V13 Wincc but I imagine is the same, worked perfectly.

Regards.

 Thank you for replies...

I've managed to migrate HMI program to Win CC V14,

Unable to migrate Step 7 V.5.5 project to TIA, errors with KNOW HOW protected blocks.

Will this work with PLC program still in Step 7 and HMI in TIA?

What is the purpose of proxy device function ? Is it to access PLC via TIA?

 Hello,

SteveJ3

-Unable to migrate Step 7 V.5.5 project to TIA, errors with KNOW HOW protected blocks.

-Will this work with PLC program still in Step 7 and HMI in TIA?

-What is the purpose of proxy device function ? Is it to access PLC via TIA?

 Kindly have a look at the following points:

1-What are the requirements for migrating a STEP 7 V5.x project to STEP 7 Professional (TIA Portal)?

You can migrate projects with protected blocks to the TIA Portal and then download them to the CPU. Here, blocks from STEP 7 V5.5 encrypted with S7 Block Privacy are marked as not supported. Note the following restrictions in this case:

• The block protection from STEP 7 V5.x (KNOW_HOW_PROTECT or encryption with S7 Block Privacy) is not supported in the TIA Portal. A modified block protection is available in STEP 7 Professional.
• You cannot open or edit these blocks.
• The block protection from STEP 7 V5.x can no longer be removed in the TIA Portal.

Recommendation
Before migrating the project, you should remove the block protection from your blocks in STEP 7 V5.x. After migration you can protect your blocks again with the protection mechanism of STEP 7 Professional (TIA Portal) in this menu: "Edit > Know-How Protection".

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2-PLC program  in Step 7 and HMI in TIA:will work

If no errors available and the programming is OK

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3-Combined configuration with WinCC (TIA Portal) and STEP 7 V5.x

• PLC program with the “STEP 7 V5.x” software and the HMI configuration with the “WinCC (TIA Portal)” software.
• The “Device Proxy PLC” enables directly accessing the SIMATIC controllers and their current data such as symbols, data blocks and the “Alarm_S”, “Alarm_D” and “SFM” alarm procedure in the SIMATIC Manager and integrating it into WinCC (TIA Portal).

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Hi,

Thank you for the in depth reply.

Option 1, it's not our program, so unable to remove 'KNOWHOW' protection.