SIRIUS Motor Starter PCS 7 Library "V7.1+SP2"/ "V8 Migration V8.0+SP1"
Getting Started, 08/2013, A5E02897539020A/RS-AA/005
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Operating and monitoring the process
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Introduction
If you open the OS from SIMATIC Manager and activate the OS project, you can then
perform operator control and monitoring of the process.
Requirements
● CFC charts and the OS must be created and downloaded to the target system.
● Ensure that the CPU is in RUN mode.
● SIMATIC Manager must be open, and the project displayed in the component view.
Procedure
Table 6- 1 Steps
Step Action
1
• Right-click to open the block icon of the signal processing block, e.g., MS_DIR.
• Select the "Open Object" menu command.
2
• Select the "File > Activate" menu command in WinCC .
3
• Click on "Process cell(1)" in the top-left of the overview area of the "SIMATIC PCS 7 Process Control"
operator interface.
• Select "Function(1) > Position(1)" in the hierarchy
The automatically created block icon of the signal-processing block, e.g., MS_DIR or MS_REV is displayed.
4
• Click the block icon of the signal-processing block, e.g., MS_DIR or MS_REV in the work area of the operator
interface.
The faceplate of the motor starter is displayed in the working area of the operator interface.
• All the operations enabled for the user can be executed in the faceplate of a block.
Follow the procedure described above for the MS_REV, MS_DSL, MS_RSL, MS_STAT and
MS_MEAS blocks.
Further information on performing an upgrade can be found in the "SIRIUS Motor Starter
PCS 7 Library "V7.1+SP2"/ "V8 Migration V8.0+SP1"" Programming and Operating Manual
on the Internet (http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/en/41856573).