IPC Power On/Off via PLC

Dear experts,

is it somehow possible to shutdown or boot-up an IPC via a command from a S7-1500 PLC.

I need this functionality ( well-known from Beckhoff IPC) in an ongoing project but I can't find details in our SIOS how to program a startup/shutdown DB in TIA Portal to use it in the S7-1500 with an IPC.

For the moment we are free of the choice of the IPC, so any IPC could bee foreseen!

Kind regards

I am not aware of any option directly. So first one could be write a listener program on the ipc which shuts it down (only) when PLC sends command. Second one would be add an ups to the ipc and a power switch managed from the plc to the main power in from the ipc. That way you can cut the power and the ups would trigger the safe shutdown.

A nice solution from Siemens would be cool, though. If none is shown here, PN me and I can suggest it to devs ;-)

Hello,

shutting down or restart an IPC is possible via Windows command execution. The proper command for that function is the 'shutdown' command. Enter 'shutdown -?' in a command line window to get some help.

In case, you have SIMATIC WinCC Runtime installed on your IPC, you can execute such commands with the system function "startProgram" (see WinCC Advanced V14 SP1 System Manual 03/2017, Page 6099), here.

This functions allows you to execute external programs. Just create a batch-file (*.bat oder *.cmd) and write an appropriate shutdown-command inside that file. Maybe some wait-time is a good idea to be able to shutdown the WinCC Runtime program too.

The execution of that startProgram function can be triggered by a PLC variable change in WinCC. So in the end the CPU shuts down or restarts the IPC.

Unfortunately powering up an IPC from a PLC is not possible that way. If your IPC supports intel AMT, then you can power up your SIMATIC IPC via Ethernet. This requires a second computer, that sends the power-up command to the powered off IPC.

Any other solution is welcome.

regards,
xnor

Try read this
https://cache.industry.siemens.com/dl/files/962/109737962/att_889758/v5/109737962_Shutdown_IPC_PSU8600_in_Buffer_mode_DOC_en.pdf