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Preface
PROFINET with STEP 7 V15
4 Function Manual, 12/2017, A5E03444486-AH
What's new in the PROFINET function manual, version 12/2017 compared to version 09/2016
This manual (version 12/2017) encompasses the following new functions compared to the
previous version (version 09/2016):
Function
Applications
Your benefits
Specifying the router
for a PROFINET IO
device
You can specify the IP address of a router for
each IO device. You reach the IO device from
outside the IP subnet through the router.
In the past, it was only possible to specify a rout-
er for a PROFINET IO interface at the IO control-
ler. The IO devices inherited the setting of the IO
controller interface.
Now you can set the router address independent-
ly of the IO controller setting. This allows, for
example, a router address at the IO device alt-
hough you have not set a router address or have
set a different address at the IO controller.
Configuring an IO
device through hard-
ware detection
You can detect an existing IO device and enter
it in your project.
STEP
7 inserts the IO device with all the modules
and submodules into the project. Article numbers
and firmware versions between real and config-
ured IO devices match.
You reduce the project planning work required.
Asset management You can centrally manage non-PROFINET
components (assets) of a PROFINET device.
The PROFINET device makes the identifica-
tion data of the assets available for evaluation
via a standardized data record.
The new standardized PROFINET service makes
it possible to manage all the hardware and firm-
ware components of PROFINET devices central-
ly. The possibilities available for filtering device
data, for example, depend on the range of per-
formance of the evaluating application.
Asset manage-
ment data record for I-
devices
Special application of asset management:
From the point of view of a higher-level IO
controller, the modules plugged into the I-
device represent assets. The user program in
the I-device compiles the asset management
data record. The IO controller can read identi-
fication data of the I-device modules through
this data record.
See Asset management.