I have a machine that runs a process via automatic sequences - a state machine. To help troubleshoot these sequences, it is important to see how long each sequence step is taking. Currently, our HMI has text lists containing the description for each of the sequence steps. This is displayed on the HMI, but only displaying the current sequence step as the machine runs. These sequence steps happen very fast, so it is hard to understand unless you have intimate knowledge of the program. For this reason, I would like to display the sequence data on the HMI. The data I would like to display is:

1) How can I create a table in the HMI? A simple rows and columns table where I can cleanly input the data and the engineers, techs, and operators on the floor can easily read. Something simple like an excel table. I could just draw lines and put IO fields inside the lines, but was hoping for a more robust tool from Siemens/Open Source.

2) How can I leverage the already existing HMI text lists to input into my table so that I don't have to rewrite all steps? I will do it the manual way if I need to, but that will be tedious and time consuming. Was hoping to find a more dynamic/modular approach to speed this process and make it easy to update in the future.

We are using a TP2200 Comfort V16, TIA Portal V16 Update 6, WinCC Advanced/Unified PC V16 Update 6.

Thank you!