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Thread Starter: m.aksoy   Started: 6/8/2012 10:06 AM   Replies: 3

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  6/8/2012, 10:06 AM
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Dear Sirs;

I need some information for PCS7

1 -Can I use PCS7 with s7300 or use only S7400?  which one?

2 -for example:

I wrote a program in the Simatic manager 5.5

Can I apply the Simatic5.5 program to PCS7?  is it possible?
its run together?

3- are within all of the programs(PLC-PCS7) written in the PCS7?
all programs should be written in PCS7?

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  6/8/2012, 4:01 PM
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Dear Experts;

I need your helps.
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  6/11/2012, 5:51 PM
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Hello m.aksoy,

1- PCS7 supports S7 300s and S7400s. You can view the 'PCS 7  - Released Modules' documentation for each version of PCS7 on the support website. 

2- I am sure of the question you are asking. You wrote a program in STEP7 5.5 (is this what you mean?) and can you clarify what program you used to write (example..SCL)? PCS7 allows for ladder, SCL, FBs.. etc. But you may want to educate yourself with the PCS7 Libraries, as they may have also solved what you wrote, thus you can keep with a standard approach and not run into issues during upgrades.

3- Again, here I am unsure what the question is asking. Are you asking if all the programs need to be programmed in CFC? STEP7 programs are used in PCS7 so if lots of your program is just ladder logic, and DB and FB manipulations, yes it would work too.

But the thing to think about with PCS7 is the whole platform. Consider your HMI.... valves, motors, PIDs, all these parts are conquered already with the Standard libraries in CFC and create tags and icons in the HMI. I would imagine you would want to replace as much 'custom' as possible with standard. 

Hopefully I have answered you questions.

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  6/22/2012, 10:25 AM
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Take my advice: Use PCS7 environment only.. You can make your custom blocks by programming in SCL,FDB, STL, but I would suggest to use CFC charts for main programming...

I started up an old plant with seperate S7300 modules with their own programs and sending data to and from S7400. (PCS7 4.0).
I had a lot of problems with errors and a lot of time figuring out which data to send on profibus.

I removed all S7300 and replaced by ET200M. I converted the S7 programs to CFC and everything runs smoothly.


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