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Introduction SICAR@TIA DiagAddOn

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Table of contents

1. Short description 3
1.1 Overview 4
1.1.1 Configuration overview SICAR 4
1.2 Software package 6
1.2.1 SICAR@TIA 6
1.2.2 DiagAddOn for PLC 6
1.2.3 DiagAddOn for HMI 8

2. Software requirements for ES 10

3. HMI Software – Licences Runtime 10

4. SICAR Software 11
4.1 SICAR@TIA Demo 11
4.2 Documentation SICAR 11
4.3 Documentation DiagAddOn 12

5. System resources 13

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1. Short description
SICAR@TIA and DiagAddOn provides an efficient automation concept for sequence controls.
The benefit of using SICAR is that it consists of exactly coordinated HMI and PLC-software.

This saves the user from dealing with how to build up a functioning program, out of varying products and
software blocks.
Programming a plant specific control program can be approached immediately.

A unit philosophy of operating and diagnosis means a great benefit for plants operating with SICAR.
Despite different plants and vendors, this enables maintenance staff to find out errors more quickly and solve
them efficiently.
If any modifications or extension should be necessary in the program, the PLC-basic software structure
guarantees easy famililarisation with the control programms of different plants and vendors.

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1.1 Overview
SICAR consists of the following software packages

 SICAR@TIA:
Software for PLC (S7-15xx)
Screens for HMI (TIA WINCC Advanced)

 DiagAddOn:
Software for PLC
VB-Application for HMI (Win7 necessary)

1.1.1 Configuration overview SICAR

PLC
15xx(F)-DP/PN PG IPCxx7
TIA-Portal
WinCC Runtime Advanced
TIA Safety

TIA WINCC Advanced DiagAddOn

TIA Openness

Fieldbus: Profinet

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1.2 Software package

1.2.1 SICAR@TIA
The software package SICAR@TIA is provided by VSS Auto and contains visualization software for HMI,
based on WINCC, as well as harmonized software for SIMATIC S7-15xx.

The software package SICAR@TIA provides a complete, structured and functional program with the
functions:

 operation-modes
 interface to the operator panel
 production data
 system data
 drives, Ident
 tec-Units
 system diagnosis, fieldbus diagnosis
 …………

1.2.2 DiagAddOn for PLC

The software package DiagAddOn provides PLC blocks as well as a HMI-application with this functions:

 sequence control incl. message history

 diagnosis
 synchronization
 manual movement
 RSS-Feed

Sequence control
The sequence blocks coordinate the linecontrol and contains these functions:

 sequence control management of 128 sequences in parallel, with up to 128 steps per block
 management of the operation modes: automatic and inching mode
 synchronising the sequence block to the actual condition/status of the machine
 organising and supervising the functional sequence for automatic mode

The programmed sequence blocks are shown automatically by a diagnosis-screen on the HMI.
To prepare diagnosis data for the HMI you need a generation tool, DiagGen.

Manual operation
In manual mode, the concerned logical operations of interlock conditions and limit conditions are used.

Using the movement screens, the current sequence can be leaved and any other movement can be
executed.

When changing from manual to automatic mode, it is possible to continue the automatic operation
immediately by using the function synchronisation.

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Diagnosis
The sequence block monitors the active sequence in OM Automatic

 Automatic mode: Interlock automatic (ILOCK_A) = 1 and

Transition automatic (TRANS_A) = 0 and
Watchdog time expired

Synchronisation
To carry out a synchronisation, the sequence block provides the possibility to analyse either one selected or
all sequences if a respective button is pressed in operation mode ‘off’.
All steps of a sequence are analysed if they are executable in automatic mode.

A step is executable if interlock automatic = 1, and transition condition automatic = 0.

If a sequence step is executable unambiguous, the sequence is set to this step (synchronized).

By switching to automatic mode, the sequence is continued immediately.

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1.2.3 DiagAddOn for HMI

 Screens for sequence control (diagnosis) incl. message history

 Screens for manual movement

Following screens for sequence diagnosis and movements.

Sequence diagnosis:

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Movement screens:

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2. Software requirements for ES

 TIA-Portal V14 SP1 or higher
 Step 7 Pro V14 SP1 or higher
 WINCC Advanced V14 SP1 or higher
 Step 7 Safety V14 SP1 or higher (Option F-PLC)
 TIA Portal Openness V14 SP1 or higher
Use for all versions the current service pack and updates

3. HMI Software – Licences Runtime

 TIA-Portal WINCC Advanced Runtime for HMI V14 or higher
SICAR@TIA Basic Package xxx PowerTags, Recommendation xxx PowerTags
 DiagAddon V14.x.x – No Licencse neccesary
DiagAddOn is running on OS Win7 / Win10

Use for all versions the current service pack and updates

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4. SICAR Software

4.1 SICAR@TIA Demo

Based on our Demo kit the file “SICAR_TIA_DiagAddOn Demo Vx.x.x.zip” contains a PLC-programm with
integrated WinCC Advanced project.

The demo kit consists of:

 PLC1516F
 IPC277E
 3 Axis-Demo with ET200M

4.2 Documentation SICAR

The basic documentation is included in the TIA-Project and located in folder UserFiles / UserDocumentation

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4.3 Documentation DiagAddOn

The documentation for DiagAddOn is delivered with the PLC and HMI-software.

In chapter 3 “Software” all SICAR DiagAddOn functions are explained.

30_Hard- and Software intro

31_Initialization and Operation modes
32_
33_
34_Sequence control and diagnostics
35_

The document in chapter 4 “04_User_Guideline“ should be a guideline for the project engineer how to build
up a project by using the software components described in chapter 3 “Software“.

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5. System resources
This chapter contains the definitions for reseved system resources

 Function (FC)
 Functionblocks (FB)
 Datablocks (DB)
 UDT
 Marker

It´s not allowed to change any of the FB/FC/DB/UDT/MB numbers

Function Number Range

Blocks FB FC DB UDT Merkerbytes

System Library:
Initialization and
Sequence_Engine 900-1299 900-1299 900-1299 900-999 1, 2
incl. Process-
Diagnostics

… … …

MB1 reserved for clock flags

MB2 reserved for system flags

A detailed description can be found in the respective chapters.

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