At the grossest possible method, someone pushes the motor contactor in with a screwdriver.  Not suggesting that is what Siemens is suggesting, but something to that effect meaning this software is not going to control anything, so some other method is required to operate the motor in that mode.

Local control versus automatic control.  Perhaps they mean manual and automatic?  If a motor has a local control operating panel, if the system is wired such that flipping a selector switch from auto to local is connected to a PLC input, which then applies the "Local" control setting to the block.

These are assumptions that may not be 100% accurate, but should give you the ideas behind the various ways motors can be controlled.

alvarocanicosa

Hi. I'm trying to use this library in my new projects. But I have some questions.

Reading the documentation there are three modes for the elements (for example, the "LBP_Mtr " block): Repair, Local, Automatic and Manual

The documentation says: when in repair mode (motor can only be controlled externally). How is the motor supposed to be controlled? Using hmi?

What's the difference between Local and Automatic?

Thanks