IBA ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer Owner's manual

ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer

Data Interface for Siemens SIMOTION Drives

Manual

Issue 1.3

Measurement Systems for Industry and Energy

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The content of this publicaon has been checked for compliance with the described hardware

and soware. Nevertheless, discrepancies cannot be ruled out, and we do not provide guaran-

tee for complete conformity. However, the informaon furnished in this publicaon is updated

regularly. Required correcons are contained in the following regulaons or can be downloaded

on the Internet.

The current version is available for download on our web site www.iba-ag.com.

Version Date Revision Author Version SW

1.3 06-2023 GUI new, Roung via TIA Portal rm, mm 8.0.0

Windows® is a brand and registered trademark of Microso Corporaon. Other product and

company names menoned in this manual can be labels or registered trademarks of the corre-

sponding owners.

SINAMICS and SIMOTION are registered trademarks of the Siemens AG.

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ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer Contents

Contents

1 About this Manual ............................................................................................................5

1.1 Target group and previous knowledge ..................................................................... 5

1.2 Notaons .................................................................................................................. 5

1.3 Used symbols ............................................................................................. ...............6

2 System requirements SIMOTION-Xplorer ..........................................................................7

3 Data Interface SIMOTION-Xplorer .....................................................................................9

3.1 General informaon ................................................................................................. 9

3.2 System topologies ..................................................................................................... 9

3.3 Conguraon and engineering SIMOTION ............................................................. 10

3.4 Conguraon & engineering ibaPDA ...................................................................... 10

3.4.1 General interface sengs ....................................................................................... 10

3.4.2 Adding a module..................................................................................................... 11

3.4.3 General module sengs ........................................................................................ 12

3.4.4 Connecon sengs ................................................................................................14

3.4.4.1 Connecon mode TCP/IP ..................................................................................... 14

3.4.4.2 Connecon mode PC/CP ..................................................................................... 15

3.4.5 Signal conguraon ................................................................................................ 17

3.4.6 Address books ........................................................................................................ 18

3.4.7 Module diagnoscs.................................................................................................19

4 Diagnoscs ......................................................................................................................20

4.1 License .................................................................................................................... 20

4.2 Visibility of the interface ....................... .................................................................. 20

4.3 Log les ............................................................................................ .......................21

4.4 Connecon diagnoscs with PING .......................................................................... 22

4.5 Connecon table ....................................................................................................23

4.6 Diagnosc modules ................................................................................................24

4.7 Connecon diagnoscs with PG/PC interface ........................................................ 29

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5 Appendix ........................................................................................................................ 31

5.1 Seng PG/PC interface/dening new access point................................................ 31

5.2 S7 roung ...............................................................................................................35

5.2.1 Roung from Ethernet to Ethernet ........................................................................ 35

5.2.1.1 Conguraon of STEP 7/NetPro .......................................................................... 36

5.2.1.2 Conguraon of TIA Portal .................................................................................. 38

5.2.1.3 Conguraon of ibaPDA ...................................................................................... 40

5.2.2 Roung from Ethernet to PROFIBUS ...................................................................... 41

5.2.2.1 Conguraon of STEP 7/NetPro .......................................................................... 42

5.2.2.2 Conguraon of TIA Portal .................................................................................. 43

5.2.2.3 Conguraon of ibaPDA ...................................................................................... 44

6 Support and contact ........................................................................................................ 46

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ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer About this Manual

1 About this Manual

This document describes the funcon and applicaon of the soware interface

ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer.

This documentaon is a supplement to the ibaPDA manual. Informaon about all the other

characteriscs and funcons of ibaPDA can be found in the ibaPDA manual or in the online help.

1.1 Target group and previous knowledge

This manual is aimed at qualied professionals who are familiar with handling electrical and

electronic modules as well as communicaon and measurement technology. A person is regard-

ed as professional if he/she is capable of assessing safety and recognizing possible consequenc-

es and risks on the basis of his/her specialist training, knowledge and experience and knowl-

edge of the standard regulaons.

This documentaon in parcular addresses persons, who are concerned with the conguraon,

test, commissioning or maintenance of Programmable Logic Controllers of the supported prod-

ucts. For the handling ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer the following basic knowledge is re-

quired and/or useful:

■ Windows operang system

■ Basic knowledge of ibaPDA

■ Knowledge of conguraon and operaon of the relevant drive system

1.2 Notaons

In this manual, the following notaons are used:

Acon Notaon

Menu command Menu Logic diagram

Calling the menu command Step 1 – Step 2 – Step 3 – Step x

Example:

Select the menu Logic diagram – Add – New funcon

block.

Keys <Key name>

Example: <Alt>; <F1>

Press the keys simultaneously <Key name> + <Key name>

Example: <Alt> + <Ctrl>

Buons <Key name>

Example: <OK>; <Cancel>

Filenames, paths Filename, Path

Example: Test.docx

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1.3 Used symbols

If safety instrucons or other notes are used in this manual, they mean:

Danger!

Thenon-observanceofthissafetyinformaonmayresultinanimminentrisk

of death or severe injury:

■ Observe the specied measures.

Warning!

Thenon-observanceofthissafetyinformaonmayresultinapotenalriskof

death or severe injury!

■ Observe the specied measures.

Cauon!

Thenon-observanceofthissafetyinformaonmayresultinapotenalriskof

injury or material damage!

■ Observe the specied measures

Note

A note species special requirements or acons to be observed.

Tip

Tip or example as a helpful note or insider p to make the work a lile bit easier.

Otherdocumentaon

Reference to addional documentaon or further reading.

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2 System requirements SIMOTION-Xplorer

The following system requirements are necessary for the use of the SIMOTION-Xplorer data in-

terface:

■ibaPDA v8.0.0 or higher

■Base license for ibaPDA + license for ibaPDA-Drive-Xplorer or ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-

Xplorer

■For more than 32 SIMOTION drives, you need addional one-step-up-Interface-SIMOTION-

Xplorer licenses for each addional 32 connecons.

■Siemens SIMOTION drive

■Commissioning tool Siemens SIMOTION SCOUT

For further requirements for the used computer hardware and the supported operang sys-

tems, refer to the ibaPDA documentaon.

System constraints

Regarding the number of connections, the following technical constraints apply:

The number of S7-, SINAMICS- and SIMOTION-Xplorer connections is limited to 240. TCP and

PC/CP connections of the SINAMICS-, SIMOTION- and SINUMERIK-Xplorer are evaluated differ-

ently. A SINAMICS-, SIMOTION- or SINUMERIK-Xplorer connecon over TCP only counts 1/16. A

PC/CP connecon is calculated in full.

This means:

Number of S7-Xplorer connecons

+ number of SINAMICS-Xplorer-TCP connections not routed / 16 1)

+ number of SIMOTION-Xplorer-TCP connections not routed / 16 1)

+ number of SINUMERIK-Xplorer-TCP connections not routed / 16 1)

+ number of SINAMICS-Xplorer-TCP connections routed

+ number of SIMOTION-Xplorer-TCP connections routed

+ number of SINAMICS-Xplorer-PC/CP connections

+ number of SIMOTION-Xplorer-PC/CP connections

+ number of SINUMERIK-Xplorer-PC/CP connections

≤ 240!

1) Only acve connecons are taken into account. The division must always be rounded to the

next larger number. (One connecon resource per started 16 connecons.)

Access to the SINAMICS Control Units which are integrated in the SIMOTION controls is not sup-

ported.

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Licenseinformaon

Order no. Product name Product descripon

31.001044 ibaPDA-Drive-Xplorer Extension license for an ibaPDA system add-

ing the data interfaces SINAMICS-Xplorer and

SIMOTION-Xplorer.

31.000031 ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer Extension license for an ibaPDA system adding

the data interface:

+ SIMOTION-Xplorer (interface for up to 32

SIMOTION-drives)

31.100031 one-step-up-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer Extension license for 32 further SIMOTION

drives (max. 15 licenses)

Note

To use more than 32 data connecons per interface, you can purchase the one-

step-up-… extension licenses separately for each interface. Up to 32 further

connecons to drives can be established on each one-step-up-license. Up to 512

connecons can be congured and used per data interface with the mulple

purchase or mulple release of these licenses (up to 15 in total).

Consider the limitaon of the number of signals by the ibaPDA base license.

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3 Data Interface SIMOTION-Xplorer

3.1 Generalinformaon

The SIMOTION-Xplorer interface is suitable for the acquision of measurement data of SIMO-

TION frequency converters via Ethernet using the standard network interface cards as well as

PROFIBUS via SIMATIC NET interface cards. Access thereby is transparent for the drive control-

ler. Separate engineering and programming is not necessary.

The signals to be measured can be selected based on address books in the symbol browser of

the ibaPDA I/O Manager.

3.2 System topologies

You can establish the connecons to the SIMOTION drives via standard interfaces of the com-

puter or corresponding CP modules.

Addional Siemens soware (e.g. SIMATIC NET or SIMATIC STEP 7 or SIMOTION SCOUT) is need-

ed for operaon, in case you establish the connecon to the control system via a SIMATIC NET

communicaon card (CP) in the computer to an integrated Ethernet interface of the CPU (if

available) or to a CP module in the PLC.

Note

It is recommended carrying out the TCP/IP communicaon on a separate net-

work segment to exclude a mutual inuence by other network components.

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3.3 ConguraonandengineeringSIMOTION

Generally, no specic engineering and programming is necessary on the drive side.

You have to export one so called STI le (see ì Address books , page 18) using the SIMOTION

conguraon soware, e.g. Siemens SCOUT. Only then, you can congure in ibaPDA the signals

to be measured and the symbols from the drives. ibaPDA needs the STI le in order to create an

address book with the signals from the drive.

When using the PC/CP connecon mode, you have to congure a suitable access point in the

SIMATIC PG/PC interface on the ibaPDA computer, see ì Seng PG/PC interface/dening new

access point, page 31.

3.4 Conguraon&engineeringibaPDA

The engineering for ibaPDA is described in the following. If all system requirements are fullled,

ibaPDA displays the SIMOTION-Xplorer interface in the interface tree of the I/O Manager.

3.4.1 Generalinterfacesengs

If you select the data interface in the tree, you can see an overview of diagnoscs informaon

on the congured connecons between ibaPDA and the drives.

The interface has the following funcons and conguraon opons:

Setallvaluestozerowhentheconnecontoadriveislost

If this opon is enabled, all measured values of the drive are set to zero as soon as the connec-

on is lost. If this opon is disabled, ibaPDA keeps the last valid measured value in memory

when the connecon is lost.

Startacquisionevenifadriveisnotaccessible

If this opon is enabled, the acquision starts even if the drive is not accessible. A warning is

prompted in the validaon dialog, not an error. If the system was started without a connecon

to the drive, ibaPDA periodically tries to connect to the drive.

Allow inaccessible parameters

If this opon is enabled, the acquision starts even if drive parameters are not accessible. These

inaccessible parameters are prompted as warnings in the validaon dialog box, not as errors.

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With this buon, you open the dialog for creang and managing address books (General tab

– Address books node). For conguring the measurement signals from the drives, you need to

have a valid address book.

For more informaon, see ì Address books , page 18

<Openlogle>

If connecons to controllers have been established, all connecon specic acons are recorded

in a text le. Using this buon, you can open and check this le. In the le system on the hard

disk, you nd the log les of the ibaPDA server (…\ProgramData\iba\ibaPDA\Log).

The le name of the current log le is InterfaceLog.txt; the name of the archived log

les is InterfaceLog_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.txt.

<Resetstascs>

Click this buon to reset the calculated mes and error counters in the table to 0.

Connecontable

For each connecon, the table shows the connecon status, the current values for the update

me (current, real value, average, min. and max.) as well as the data size. In addion, there is an

error counter for the individual connecons during the acquision.

See ì Connecon table, page 23.

3.4.2 Adding a module

1. Click on the blue command Click to add module… located under each data interface in the

Inputs or Outputs tab.

2. Select the desired module type in the dialog box and assign a name via the input eld if re-

quired.

3. Conrm the selecon with <OK>.

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3.4.3 Generalmodulesengs

To congure a module, select it in the tree structure.

All modules have the following seng opons.

Basicsengs

ModuleType(informaononly)

Indicates the type of the current module.

Locked

You can lock a module to avoid unintenonal or unauthorized changing of the module sengs.

Enabled

Enable the module to record signals.

Name

You can enter a name for the module here.

Module No.

This internal reference number of the module determines the order of the modules in the signal

tree of ibaPDA client and ibaAnalyzer.

Timebase

All signals of the module are sampled on this mebase.

Usenameasprex

This opon puts the module name in front of the signal names.

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Module layout

No. of analog signals

Dene the number of congurable analog signals in the signal table. The default value is 32. The

maximum value is 1000. The signal table is adjusted accordingly.

Note

Observe the maximum number of signals permied by your base license for

ibaPDA.

Note

Take into consideraon that the number of signals, which are read by a CPU, in-

uences the minimum achievable update cycle. The more signals acquired, the

longer the achievable update me.

SIMOTION

Updateme

Species the reference update me in which the data is requested from the drive. During mea-

surement, the real current update me may be higher than the specied value if the drive

needs more me to transmit the data. You can check in the connecon table how fast the data

is actually updated.

Connecon(readonly)

Connecon ID that is used to access the drive.

Address book

Select the appropriate address book for the drive to congure the signals to be measured. This

requires that address books have already been generated. Otherwise, the selecon list is empty.

Using Create address book in the selecon list or the General tab – Address books node –

SIMOTION tab, you can open the address book generator, see ì Address books , page 18.

Link "Select symbols"

Click on this link aer the connecon has been successfully established to congure the signals

to be measured.

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3.4.4 Conneconsengs

Congure the connecon of the module to the drive in the Connecon tab.

You can choose between the TCP/IP and PC/CP connecon modes.

3.4.4.1 ConneconmodeTCP/IP

This mode acvates a connecon via the standard network interface of the computer.

Conneconmode

Selecon of the TCP/IP connecon mode.

Timeout

Here you can specify a value for the meout in seconds for establishing the connecon and for

read accesses. If the me set here is exceeded, ibaPDA declares the controller as not accessible

or not responsive.

Address

IP address of the drive.

You can determine this value by accessing the running drive conguraon of SIMOTION, e.g.

with Siemens SIMOTION SCOUT.

AcvateS7roung

Acvate this opon if the S7-CPU and the ibaPDA computer are not in the same network, but

only communicate over a gateway that supports S7 roung. Such a gateway can be e.g. an IE/PB

link, over which a S7-CPU can be reached without an Ethernet connecon.

Two addional input elds appear:

■ Address of device acng as gateway: Enter the IP address of the gateway.

■ S7 subnet ID of target net: Enter subnet ID from STEP 7 NetPro or TIA Portal.

For more informaon on S7 roung, see ì S7 roung, page 35.

MaximumPDUsize

You can limit the PDU (packet data unit) to a maximum size.

You can select a value from the drop-down list or enter a value.

If the value "0" (default seng) is set, ibaPDA automacally idenes the PDU size by the net-

work protocol.

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Address book

Selecon of the linked address book with the signals of the drive

This seng is the same as the address book seng on the General tab of the module. Here, you

can also select the sengs.

<Test>

ibaPDA tests the connecon to the drive and displays available diagnosc data, e.g. MLFB num-

ber of the controller and its status.

Note

Port102 in the rewall must be released for the communicaon with the CPU

for signal request.

3.4.4.2 ConneconmodePC/CP

This mode acvates a connecon over the interface cards of the computer that are congured

using SIMATIC Net.

The interfaces congured in SIMATIC Net can be used, e. g.:

■ PROFIBUS (CP5611, CP5622)

Note

If you want to use this connecon type, the Siemens soware SIMATIC Net

(e.g. SIMATIC Manager or Sonet) has to be installed. When using the modules

CP55…, CP56… and the MPI adapter, the installaon of the device drivers is su-

cient.

Conneconmode

Selecon of the PC/CP connecon mode

Timeout

Here you can specify a value for the meout in seconds for establishing the connecon and for

read accesses. If the me set here is exceeded, ibaPDA declares the controller as not accessible

or not responsive.

Accesspointforapplicaons

Selecon of the access point to be used

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For more informaon on creang and conguring an access point, see ì Seng PG/PC interfa-

ce/dening new access point, page 31.

Note

Congure available access points in SIMATIC Net with the "PG/PC interface set-

ngs" tool by Siemens.

For the connecon of ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer to SIMATIC S7 via

PC/CP connecons, it is generally recommend seng a specic access point for

ibaPDA when ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer and SIMATIC Manager run on

the same computer. With an own access point, there is no longer the risk that

the access for ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer will be disturbed in case the

standard access point is changed in the SIMATIC Manager.

<CongurePG/PCinterface>

This buon opens the dialog box for seng the PG/PC interface of SIMATIC STEP 7.

Address

IP address of the drive.

You can determine this value by accessing the running drive conguraon of SIMOTION, e.g.

with Siemens SIMOTION SCOUT.

AcvateS7roung

Acvate this opon if the S7-CPU and the ibaPDA computer are not in the same network, but

only communicate over a gateway that supports S7 roung. Such a gateway can be e.g. an IE/PB

link, over which a S7-CPU can be reached without an Ethernet connecon.

Two addional input elds appear:

■ Address of device acng as gateway: Enter the IP address of the gateway.

■ S7 subnet ID of target net: Enter subnet ID from STEP 7 NetPro or TIA Portal.

For more informaon on S7 roung, see ì S7 roung, page 35.

MaximumPDUsize

You can limit the PDU (packet data unit) to a maximum size.

You can select a value from the drop-down list or enter a value.

If the value "0" (default seng) is set, ibaPDA automacally idenes the PDU size by the net-

work protocol.

Address book

Address book with the signals of the drive. This seng equals the address book sengs on the

General tab of the module. Here, you can also select the sengs.

<Test>

ibaPDA tests the connecon to the CPU and displays available diagnosc data.

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3.4.5 Signalconguraon

The signals you to be acquired are selected in the I/O Manger using the SIMOTION symbol

browser.

Prerequisite: A suitable address book was created and assigned it to the module, see ì Address

books , page 18.

You have two opons to select the signals to be measured:

■ In the module's General tab, click on the Select symbols link.

The symbol browser opens.

In the symbol browser you can select all symbols of the address book. ibaPDA enters the

selected signals automacally in the table Analog. You can add several signals successively.

■ On the Analog tab, click in a cell of the Symbol column.

The buon <…> appears. Click this buon to open the symbol browser.

In the symbol browser, select a symbol and click <OK> to add the symbol. ibaPDA enters the

symbol in the previously selected row of the signal table. Aer every selecon, the symbol

browser closes.

Aer selecng a symbol, the symbol browser shows the symbol name, the data type and the

access type.

Via the Search tab, you can search for symbols with their name. The tree with the search results

works exactly the way as the whole symbol tree.

Note

If the opon Hide symbols with an unsupported data type is enabled, only sym-

bols with an allowed data type are shown.

Note

For technical reasons, digital signals are transmied as analog signals.

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3.4.6 Address books

You can create and manage the address books for SIMOTION controllers across modules. You

can use the same address book in mulple modules.

Note

The SIMOTION address books are based on the so called STI les. Inially, these

les have to be exported using the SIMOTION conguraon soware, e.g. Sie-

mens SCOUT. Whenever you export the SIMOTION conguraon to an STI le,

make sure that you have enabled the Arrays with single elements opon.

CreateanSTIle,exampleusingSIMOTIONSCOUT

Select the Export OPC data command in the Opons menu of SIMOTION SCOUT.

Now, the conguraon dialog for the data you want to export opens.

Select the SIMATIC NET V7.x / V8.0 version in this dialog and enable the opon Arrays with

single elements.

Close the dialog with <OK>.

→ Now, the STI le will be created.

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In case the ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer license is available, you can see the SIMOTION

tab in the dialog for address book management (I/O Manager General tab – Address books

node). Here, all available address books are displayed in a list. You can create new address

books and delete exisng address books.

For all address books available in ibaPDA, name, date of creaon and path of the STI le and the

modules using the address book are displayed.

You can also access this dialog in the SIMOTION-Xplorer interface via the buon <Manage ad-

dress books>.

Creanganaddressbook

1. Click on the <Create address books> buon.

2. Enter a name for the address book.

3. Enter the complete path and le name of the STI project le you want to use for creang the

address book. You can also browse for the path and the le name using the buon <…>.

4. For nally creang the address book, click on <OK>.

3.4.7 Modulediagnoscs

Aer applying the conguraon the actual values of the analog and digital signals are displayed

in the Diagnoscs tab of the relevant module.

Inacve signals are grayed out.

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4 Diagnoscs

4.1 License

If the interface is not displayed in the signal tree, you can either check in ibaPDA in the I/O Man-

ager under General – Sengs or in the ibaPDA service status applicaon whether your license

for this interface has been properly recognized. The number of licensed connecons is shown in

brackets.

The gure below shows the license for the Codesys Xplorer interface as an example.

4.2 Visibility of the interface

If the interface is not visible despite a valid license, it may be hidden.

Check the sengs in the General tab in the Interfaces node.

Visibility

The table Visibility lists all the interfaces that are available either through licenses or installed

cards. These interfaces can also be viewed in the interface tree.

You can hide or display the interfaces not required in the interface tree by using the checkbox in

the Visible column.

Interfaces with congured modules are highlighted in green and cannot be hidden.

Selected interfaces are visible, the others are hidden:

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