You're reading from PLC and HMI Development with Siemens TIA Portal Develop PLC and HMI programs using standard methods and structured approaches with TIA Portal V17

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801817226

Length 436 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

HMI

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Author (1):

Liam Bee

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – The TIA Portal – Project Environment

2. Chapter 1: Starting a New Project with TIA Portal FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Creating Objects and How They Fit Together

4. Chapter 3: Structures and User-Defined Types

5. Section 2 – TIA Portal – Languages, Structures, and Configurations

6. Chapter 4: PLC Programming and Languages

7. Chapter 5: Working with Languages in TIA Portal

8. Chapter 6: Creating Standard Control Objects

9. Chapter 7: Simulating Signals in the PLC

10. Chapter 8: Options to Consider When Creating PLC Blocks

11. Section 3 – TIA Portal – HMI Development

12. Chapter 9: TIA Portal HMI Development Environment

13. Chapter 10: Placing Objects, Settings Properties, and Events

14. Chapter 11: Structures and HMI Faceplates

15. Chapter 12: Managing Navigation and Alarms

16. Section 4 – TIA Portal – Deployment and Best Practices

17. Chapter 13: Downloading to the PLC

18. Chapter 14: Downloading to the HMI

19. Chapter 15: Programming Tips and Additional Support

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

This chapter has explored essential areas of HMI navigation and alarming. These aspects of HMI development are key to providing information to the end user and building a robust and easy-to-use system. Being able to create easy-to-use navigation systems and clear alarming systems can set a project apart from others, ensuring that end users have an easy experience when the overall system is in use.

Using PLC-driven alarming via the supervision tags can help reduce the amount of work required in the HMI by allowing the PLC to interact directly with the HMI's alarm control. The utilization of PLC-driven alarming ensures that function blocks will raise the same alarms no matter what project they are used in (subject to ProDiag supervisions being available), which can have large time-saving benefits as well as standardization.

Supervision tags use the ProDiag system that requires an additional license after the configuration of 25 supervisions. The license can be set...