Recipes

Introduction

In WinCCflexible, recipes and records are treated very differently than in ProTool. In some cases it may make sense to implement recipes in a converted WinCCflexible project differently from the ProTool project.

Conversion of recipes

During conversion, recipes are imported from the ProTool project and modified as much as possible for the requirements and options of WinCCflexible.

Transfer and synchronization

In WinCCflexible, recipes are transferred directly via tags with a connection to the PLC. Synchronization is only possible with a PLC.

The following settings are imported unchanged during conversion of transfer and synchronization:

• "direct transfer"
• "no synchronization"
• "synchronization to PLC_n"

The following settings are automatically adapted:

ProTool	WinCC flexible
Indirect transfer	Direct transfer
Synchronization to "All PLCs"	No synchronization

Name, Version, Number

The settings are fully imported. If there are no settings in the ProTool project, valid presets are input for the WinCCflexible project.

Identifier

The identifier is discarded in WinCC flexible. The recipes are identified by recipe number and recipe name in the PLC.

Input records again

In WinCCflexible, records are treated very differently than in ProTool. Because the records cannot be transferred from the ProTool project to the WinCCflexible project, they must be input again.

Replacing default screen

During conversion, the default screens "Z_RECORD 1" and "Z_RECORD 2", which contain the basic function or records, are removed.

hello JMJ,

I have already converted the protool program and added the recipe.
But whenever i tried the run the process, i am getting the "Recipe invalid" error.

After further checs i found outthatthe recipe downloaded from the OP to PLC is being resetafter it gets the start signal.

I am not very sure if this problem is caused by the PLC program or if there's a fault in my recipe settings. Do you know anything about recipe manager??