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Created by: Denilson Pegaia at: 10/6/2008 5:09 PM (0 Replies)
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Industrial Automation is a dynamic sector, those evolutes constantly. Daily news equipments come to the market. Siemens also enlarges constantly the Simatic family with news products with better performance and new features. In dependence of the type of the news equipments, there are different ways to incorporate it to STEP 7. FollowIshow the most common cases and the respective solution. Note: CASE 1 and CASE 3 are also showed in the FAQ http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/29594775). Case 1: Standard Profibus slaves and Profinet IO devices Standard Profibus slaves and Profinet IO devices can be included into STEP 7 trought import of GSD / GSDML archives. GSD and GSDML are archives delivered by the equipment fabricant that descript the device. A procedure about how to integrate news GSD / GSDML components to the HW config can be found into the FAQ: How do you integrate a GSD file into the STEP 7 HW Config for PROFIBUS or PROFINET?http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/2383630 Generally, you can find Siemens components in our site, doing a search for “device family name” + “ GSD”.Distributed I/Os Profibus GSD can be found in: http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/10805317/133100 Distributed I/Os Profinet GSD / GSDML can be found in:http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/19698639/133100 CASE 2: FM and Point to Point CPTechnological modules, like Point to Point CP and FM are includes to STEP 7 thought additional packages. The majority of these equipments have free download packages. Download CD "CP340, CP341, CP440, CP441" http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/27013524 Configuration Package for FM 350-1 and FM 450-1 Counter Moduleshttp://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/28291262 Configuration Software for FM351-1 Positioning Module FM352 http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/29851303 Configuration Package for High Speed Boolean Processor FM 352-5http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/28789987 Configuration Package for FM 350-2 Counter Modulehttp://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/28554065 Configuration Package Version 4.03.05 for FM353 and FM354http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/28432824 Configuration Package for FM 355 / 455 PID Controlhttp://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/28309090 Configuration Package for FM 352 and FM 452 Electronic Cam Moduleshttp://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/28309520 Configuration Software for FM 355-2 Temperature Controlhttp://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/27838856 CASE 3: CPUs and central modules Many of news CPU and central modules could be incorporated to STEP 7 as Hardware Support Packages.As from STEP 7 V5.2 onwards, you can use the Hardware Support Packages to update your existing Hardware Catalog and include news CPU and central modules. You can found the Hardware Support Packages and a procedure of how to include it to STEP 7 in the FAQ:“As from STEP 7 V5.2 onwards, you can use the Hardware Support Packages to update your existing Hardware Catalog.”http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/23183356 CASE 4: UpgradeIn some cases, a new hardware needs a STEP 7 upgrade to be included. The upgrade of a STEP 7 inside his original version, i.e. due service packs, is free of charge and recommended.Follow the links for upgrade to the last service pack for different versions of STEP 7: STEP 7 V5.4: SP4: http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/en/29753195 STEP 7 V5.3: SP3 : http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/21953245 STEP 7 V5.2: SP1: http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/16540057 STEP 7 V5.2 SP1: Hotfix 3: http://support.automation.siemens.com/BR/view/en/17545812 |
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