Siemens ST PCS 7 Import/Export Assistant, Overview Benefits, Efficient processing of mass data

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Engineering system

ES software

Import/Export Assistant

■Overview ■Benefits

CAD/CAE Higher-level planning tools

The import/export assistant offers the following benefits when using previously configured plant data:

7 Importing of previously configured plant data from the host

CAD/CAE world, such as process tag list

- No multiple inputs with the associated input errors

- Simple handling, easy-to-use graphic environment

4

Import/export

assistant

Typical

libraries

Process

object plans

Example solutions and process object types (e.g. control,

motor, valve)

7	Automatic and reproducible generation of process tags and
	derivatives based on the imported process tag lists and exam-
	ple solutions (technological hierarchy, charts of the individual
	process tags)
	- Drastic reduction in time required, and avoidance of errors
7	Automatic derivation of the OS display hierarchy, automatic in-
	terconnecting of blocks and positioning in displays
	- Considerable reduction in time required and costs
7	Commissioning of individual process tags with the user-

Technological hierarchy

OS display hierarchy

friendly CFC and SFC graphic tools

7 Exporting of parameters optimized during commissioning

back to the CAD/CAE world

- Consistent data in the host planning tools

■Function

OS displays

Efficient processing of mass data

The import/export assistant (IEA) is an effective tool for rational engineering of mass data, and is based on multiple use of pro- cess tag types and example solutions. It is particularly suitable for large plants with many process tags of the same type or with several plant components of the same type. Plant data which have already been configured (such as process tag lists or charts from the CAD/CAE world) can be imported into the engi- neering system and used for largely automatic generation of process tags. The data of the host planning system can be sub- sequently matched again with the parameters optimized during commissioning.

To permit simple and fast modification, the PCS 7 projects can also be exported, the data processed using the IEA editor or other programs (e.g. Microsoft Excel or Access), and subse- quently reimported.

• Generation/modification of process tag types or example so-

lutions

• Importing of data from plant planning

- Generation of process tags from process tag types and de-

rivatives from example solutions; provision with data from the

import file (one process tag/derivative per import file line in

each case)

- Assignment of an import file to a process tag type, and

checking of the assignment

- Generation of a template for an input file for the process tag

•Exporting of data for plant planning

-Generation of an export file per process tag type/example solution in each case, with one line for each process tag of this type or each derivative of this example solution

•Matching of process tags

-Removal of parameter/signal connection points not present on the process tag type and of messages from the process tags

-Addition of parameter/signal connection points and mes- sages newly defined on the process tag type

-Correction of modified categories of process tag type

-Display of inconsistencies between process tag and type which cannot be matched automatically

■Selection and Ordering Data	Order No.
SIMATIC PCS 7 Import/Export	6ES7 658-1DX07-2YB5
Assistant V7.0
6 languages (German, English,
French, Italian, Spanish,
Chinese), executes with Windows
XP Professional, floating license
for 1 user
Type of delivery:
License key disk, emergency key
disk, certificate of license, terms
and conditions

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Siemens ST PCS 7 · November 2007