Project engineering

Access into the entire project planning of hardware and network configuration can scarcely be faster. STEP7 programming, standard Motion Control functions, visualization and diagnosis have never been so easy. Benefit from this bridge-building and the wide product range of hardware including comprehensive accessories.

Hardware configuration

SPEED7 Studio already simplifi es and facilitates the work during hardware confi guration. Straightaway you avoid time-intensive training with:

  • clever Drag & Drop functions
  • tooltips
  • photo realistic display of the modules.

Numerous features support you during project engineering like the following examples from a large range of features:

  • the automatic calculation of the electricity demand in the SLIO system,
  • the integrated SPEED bus modules,
  • the online monitoring of the digital I/O’s.

Networking

SPEED7 Studio carries the networking via:

  • PROFIBUS,
  • PROFINET,
  • EtherCAT and
  • Standard-Ethernet

consistently logical. Regardless of the bus protocol the topology view is always the same. In this way the network confi gurations and the user allocation can be done easily and quickly. The combination of the standard STEP7 world and the EtherCAT world offers an overview never before seen and enormously reduces the work load.

Programming

Editors and Debug tools for IL, FBD, LAD and SCL are the instruments for programming with SPEED7 Studio. Particularly clear programming by means of:

  • clearly structured colour scheme,
  • clearly identifi ed hierarchical levels,
  • a cross-reference list
  • and many more features.

Diagnosis by means of module status and the monitoring table is possible - even with history and trend display.

Motion Control

SPEED7 Studio opens up a new, highly efficient type of drive configuration. System functions can also be planned without special knowledge with the Motion Control library. The best of the VIPA PLC and the YASKAWA drive world can now be found in a single tool.

The newly developed cam tool editor is available for multi-axial applications. With this the law of motion of VDI 2143 can be graphically designed for the electronic cam disk. Mechanical cam disks are recreated exactly and can easily be developed. Motion axes can be positioned optimally and exactly by means of the high performance clock synchronism.

Visualization

Because of the number of common variables all project variables can be used for the visualization with SPEED7 Studio without interface loss.

Two visualization options allow the choice of:

  • the web based version with the vector oriented graphic for access to your systems and plants independent of location and runtime via panel, laptop, smartphone and tablet PC;
  • the second version with the possibility of extensive visualizations via the SCADA interface.

Test & Diagnosis

Considerable test and diagnosis functions for PROFIBUS, PROFINET and EtherCAT allow for effi cient and target oriented error diagnostics in SPEED7 Studio. Considerably simplifi ed access in EtherCAT by:

  • automatic reading of connected EtherCAT hardware
  • fast and clear project engineering and parametrization
  • complete network diagnosis.

The integrated PLC and HMI simulations bring the following improvements:

  • a clear and structured testing of complex systems in advance
  • extrem simplification of error diagnosis by means of the newly developed realtime recording of datapoints from the PLC - even in the case of intermittent errors.