212422, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Pe ITS KB Controls COURSES KB Controls is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read more in our disclaimer A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Portal Inthis tutorial, provide you with a complete, step by step guide for integrating SINAMICS drives in TIA Portal projects including how to commission the standard and safety features of SINAMICS drivesin Startdrive, how to integrate and control SINAMICS drives in your TIA Portal projects using standard telegrams and blocks, and how to control and visualize the status of SINAMICS drives ina WinCC HM application hitps:iwwuckb-contals.o/posta-complele-guide-c-sinamics-ivesintegration n-ia-potal 1159212422, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Drive controlis one of the most common forms of control encountered in industrial automation. Depending on what PLC manufacturer, drive manufacturer, and sophistication of the technology you are using, your approach to integrating a drive into a PLC project and controlling the drive will be different. In this post, | will provide you with a complete, step by step guide, to integrating, commissioning, and controlling a SINAMICS drive in TIA Portal. In the next sections, we will cover; detection How to set up and commission a SINAMICS G120C drive How to set up local safety with a SINAMIC G120C drive How to control a drive with an S7-1500 PLC How to visualize the drive's control and status on a HMI As you may have gathered, this will be along post. If you don't have one already, ladvise that you make a good cup of coffee, put your phone on silent, and fire up TIA Portal before you go any farther. ANote on the SINAMICS Drives Portfolio hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal How to add a SINAMICS drive to a TIA Portal project using online PLC Programmi Bootcamp Learn PLC programming and kick start your career asa PLC programmer by following our free 5 day bootcamp Email Addres: Join for Free Learn Moresa12aia2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal 4 eruincore wth Porta Overview of the SINAMICS Range of Drives In this post, we willbe focusing on the integration, commissioning, and control of a SINAMICS G120C drive. This driveis part of Siemens" scalable range of continuous motion drives, shown above. As you can see from theimage, all of the drives in this range, excluding the V20 Basic drive, are engineered in TIA Portal using the Startdrive package. This means that the material covered today is specific to the G120C product family, butis also relevant to higher end drives including G120P, G120, GI20D, and $120 SINAMICS drives. System Overview hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal ‘System Overview In this tutorial, we will be integrating a SINAMICS G120C drive, an S7- 1500 PLC, and a WinCC Unified Comfort HMI Panel into a TIA Portal project. All of these devices will communicate with each other on Profinet network. Safety of the applications provided using the local safety interface of the G120C drive. With this safety interface, an emergency stop can be wired directly to the terminals of the G120C drive with no intermediate safety relay required, The emergency stop connection is used to activate the Safe Torque Off (STO) feature of the drive. When STOis activated, the drive will coast toa stop and remain ina safe state until the emergency stop is deactivated ANote on SINAMICS Drive Control Over Profinet hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 4183sa1rain2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal In this application example, we will be controlling a SINAMICS G120C. drive over Profinet. This means that the drive and PLC exchange telegrams over an industrial Ethernet network. SINAMICS drives support various standard telegrams for data exchange witha PLC. In this example, we will be using Telegram 1 to exchange data between the PLC and the drive, With Telegram], two words of data are exchanged between the PLC and drive. Specifically, the PLC sends the drive a telegram containing a drive control word anda setpoint speed and the drive sends the PLC a telegram containing the drive status word and the actual speed. When integrating a SINAMICS drive into a TIA Portal project, you could dive into the documentation, pick apart the control and status words, and engineer your own application code to control the drive. Amuch easier, and much more recommended, approach to integrating SINAMICS drives into a TIA Portal projects to use the software blocks developed by Siemens and included in TIA Portal to control the drive. By using this block, we can skip the hard work of understanding the telegrams exchanged between the drive and PLC and the process of engineering software blocks to control and interpret the status of the drive. As you may have guessed, we will focus on the latter approach in this tutorial. Later on, you will see how to use the SinaSpeed software block to control the G120C drive. I'ma firm believer in doing the least work possible to achieve the desired result, and using an off the shelf block for drive control definitely counts as the least work possible. Ifyou decide to engineer your own solution, then the control part of this tutorial will not be relevant to you but you may still get some value out of the sections in this tutorial on drive integration, commissioning, (cy and safety commissioning hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 9183212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Now, let's open up TIA Portal and dive into the good stuff. Step by Step Application Example Upload Drive to Project Launch TIA Portal and create a new project. In this project, we want to add the G120C drive that we will controlin this application example, We could do that by browsing for the correct part number in the Hardware Catalog but itis often faster and easier to upload the drive to the project if we are on the same Ethernet network as the drive. To upload the drive into the TIA Portal project, we first need to search for it. To search for devices available online, expand the Online access tab of the Project Explorer. Here, you can select the correct network adapter and click on Update accessible devices. TIA Portal checks for accessible devices on this network adapter and lists the devices it found below the network adapter. Update Accessible Devices If the drive is accessible via this network adapter, you will see it listed below the network adapter. ag ~~ hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal e183‘reso, 559 PM ‘A Complte Guide to SINAVICS Drive Integration in A Pot You can expand the drive and double click on "Online & diagnostics" to view diagnostic information from the drive online. The "Diagnostics general" page gives a snapshot of the important data from the drive. On this page you can see the drive's type, part number, important characteristics, and firmware version Diagnostics General You can upload devices that are accessible online directly into your TIA Portal project. As part of the upload process, all of the details and parameters of the drive are uploaded. To upload an accessible device, select the device in the Online Access tree and click Online > Upload device as new station (hardware and software) hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal (cp 83‘a1rain2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Upload Device as New Station Once the uploadis finished, switch to the Devices & Networks editor where you will see that the drive has been added to the project. Station Uploaded Upload PLC to Project Next, we want to add the PLC to our project. Once again, we could add this to the project using the Hardware Catalog or we can upload the PLC data from an accessible device. To save some time, we'll do the latter. a hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal ais‘reso, 559 PM ‘A Complte Guide to SINAVICS Drive Integration in A Pot Uploading a PLC from an accessible device is slightly different than uploading a station, To upload a PLC from an accessible device, we first need to add a generic PLC to our TIA Portal project. This effectively creates a placeholder space for a PLC in your Hardware Configuration. To adda generic PLC to your project, double click on "Add new device" in the Project Tree. In the Add New Device dialog scroll down to "Unspecified CPU 1500", select the generic PLC catalog number and click OK. There is also a generic PLC available for $7-1200 systems. Add Generic PLC to Project An unspecified PLC is added to the project. You can convert this PLC toa specific PLC using the Hardware Catalog or by clicking on "detect" to upload the PLC data from an accessible device. Click on “detect to open the Hardware Detection dialog box. a hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 91ssarzaia2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Driv Integration in TIA Postal Detect the Configuration of a Connected PLC The Hardware Detection dialog opens. From here, youcan click on "Start search" to update the list of accessible devices. Once the search has finished, you can select the PLC to be uploaded and click on "Detect" to upload the PLC data into the project and replace the unspecified CPU. Upload PLC Data from Online Device After uploading, the unspecified PLC is replaced by the data from the online device, in this case a1513F-1 PNPLC. If we had a power supply or I/O modules in the rack, then these would also be uploaded B hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 10183sarzaia2, $53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Uploaded PLC Data Add HMI to Project Next, I'lladd a HMIto the project. I'mimporting this HMI from a library project because the focus of this postiis not on developing a HMI application. As youwill see later on, thisis a very simple HMI application that reads basic data from the G120C drive and allows a user to start, stop, reset, and set the speed of the drive. Add HMI to Project Configure the Profinet Network hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 89sa1rain2, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal With all of the devices added to the project, we can configure the Profinet network. We do this in the Devices and Networks editor. In the Devices and Networks editor, activate the Network View and create a connection between the drive and PLC by dragging and dropping from the Profinet port on the PLC to the Profinet port on the drive. After releasing, you see that anetwork connectionis added between the two devices and that the drive is nowa slave of PLC_1 Create a Network Connection Between the PLC and Drive For the HMI, we want to connect the HMI to the PLC's subnet and to create a HMI connection between the PLC and HMI. TIA Portal allows us to create both these connections with one action. To create a HMI connection between the PLC and HMI, activate the Connections tool by clicking on Connections and make sure that HMI Connection is selected in the Connection Type dropdown list. Devices which support a HMI connection are shown in blue. To create a HMI connection between the PLC and HMI, drag and drop from the PLC to the HMI. When you release your mouse, you are prompted to also connect the HMIto the PLC's subnet. Click on the name of the subnet to add the HMIto the subnet. u hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 12183sarzaia2, $53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Create HMI and Subnet Connection Now, our Profinet networkis completely configured Configured Profinet Network After configuring the Profinet network, download the Hardware Configuration to the PLC. If it was on before, the Bus Fault (BF) light on the drive should now be off indicating that the drive has a connection to its Profinet master. Commission the Drive with Startdrive With the hardware and Profinet network configured, we can start a commissioning the G120C drive using Startdrive, Siemens’ drive hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 13189212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal configuration tool whichis integrated directly into TIA Portal. To launch Startdrive, expand the drivein the Project Explorer and double click on "Commissioning". Launch Startdrive In this application example, we will commission the drive offline and download the updated parameters to the drive. You can also commission the drive online. In this case, you would have to upload the updated parameters from the drive to have the up to date drive parameters in your TIA Portal project. For easy commissioning, Startdrive has a built in commissioning wizard, Launchit by clicking on the "Commissioning Wizard" nodein the Startdrive tree. Application Class The Commissioning Wizard launches and the first step we are presented with is to specify the Application Class of the application we are using the drive for. The two application classes are Standard and Dynamic. If you are not sure which Application Classis correct for your project, there is some useful help text that describes what a B Standard and Dynamic applicationis. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal sais‘reso, 559 PM ‘Complete Guid o SINAMICS Orv ntegraton in MA Portal Since we are using this drive to control a continuous conveyor, we will leave the default selection of Standard Application Class. Inthe background, this sets a whole host of parameters for the drive. After selecting the Application Class, click Next. In case you want more granular control over the parameters for the drive, you can also switch to expert mode and bypass the Commissioning Wizard Setp ication it Sper In the next screen, we specify where the drive'srampis generated. The bottom optionis used for application's with a standalone drive. In this case, the ramp is generated in the drive and the setpoint is transferred to the drive viaits analog inputs. The middle option is the most commonly used where the ramp is, generated in the drive and the setpoint is transferred to the drive over the Profinet network, The top option is used when you want to generate the ramp in the PLC. Thisis for application's that used advanced controllers with technology functions. B hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 19183‘reso, 559 PM ‘Complete Guid o SINAMICS Orv ntegraton in MA Portal For our conveyor control application, we will leave the default selection of ramp generation in the drive and setpoint coming from the controller over a Profinet network. Once the setpoint source is specified, click Next Setpoint Specification Setpoint/Command Sources Inthe next screen, we are prompted to specify where the setpoints and commands are coming from. Since we are controlling the drive over Profinet, the default option "[7] Fieldbus with data set changeover" is correct. At the bottom of the screen, another dropdown list allows you to specify the type of telegram exchanged between the drive and the PLC. The block that we will use to control the drive, SinaSpeed, is designed to work with Telegram 1 so we wil leave the default selection inthis dropdown. Other telegrams are available which contain more data about drive properties like current, torque and power. Once these options are selected, click Next. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 16183‘21rain2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Driv Integration in TIA Postal Select Setpoint Source and Telegram Type Drive Settings Onthe next screen, you can specify the settings for your drive, Here, you can specify the type of motor being controlled and the supply voltage for the drive. Once these settings are filled out, click Next. Drive Settings Drive Options Onthe next screen, you can specify any optional accessories that are B included in your setup. Specifically, you can specify if you are using a hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal visa+2472, 559M ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal brake resistor and the size of the brake resistor that you are using. You canalso specify if a filter is used between the drive and the motor. It's important to specity the use of a filter because a filter will add extra inductance when the drive is doing a motor identification When the drive options are specified, click Next Drive Options Motor Details Onthe next screen, you provide the details of the motor connected to the drive. If you have a complete Siemens drive train (that is a SIMATIC drive anda SIMOTIC motor), then you can select your motor from a catalog list To do this, click on "Select from order number list" in the "Motor configuration" dropdown. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 12183sa1pain2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Driv Integration in TIA Postal Select From Order Number List Now, you can select the correct motor from alist of SIMOTIC motors. After selecting the correct motor, choose the connection type and the type of temperature sensor used, Once the Motor Details are finalized, click Next. Motor Details Of course, if you are not using a SIMOTIC motor, you can also manually enter all of the information from the motor's data plate, Motor Holding Brake Details & hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 19183‘reso, 559 PM ‘A Complte Guide to SINAVICS Drive Integration in A Pot Onthe next screen, you can specify if a motor holding brake is used. In this application, lam not using a brake. If | was using a brake, the G120C drive supports sequence control using a digital output. With sequence control, the motor is magnetized before the holding brake is released to prevent droop inthe system. When the motor holding brake details are finalized, click Next. Motor Holding Brake Details Important Parameters Onthe next screen, you have the chance to set some important parameters for the application like speeds and ramp times. The current limit is automatically calculated but you can modify ittoa custom value if you wish: hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 20159212422, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Driv Integration in TIA Postal <7 Set the Important Application Parameté Drive Functions Finally, you can specify the load type that the drive is controlling. In our application, where the drive controls a conveyor, we are dealing with a constant, linear load so we can leave the default option selected here Below the load characteristic, we have the option to to do amotor identification. When the inverter identifies the motor, it sends out high frequency pulses at specific frequencies and voltages to the motor to create amotor model and sets some parameters in the drive based on this model. also recommend doing a motor identification when commissioning anew motor. Choose to doa motor identification at standstill and click Next. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 2189sarzaia2, $53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Driv Integration in TIA Postal Drive Functions In the final screen of the Startdrive Commissioning Wizard, you have a summary of all of the options that have been selected. Irecommend that you have a scroll through this summary to make sure that everything you have selected is correct. Once you are happy, click Finish to close the wizard, Commissioning Wizard Summary Download to Device Since we have done the commissioning of the drive offline, we need to download the parameters to the drive. With the drive selected in the B hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 2289212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Project Tree, click on the download icon and download the parametersto the drive. Download Parameters to Drive When prompted, remember to save the parameters to thenon- volatile EEPROM memory of the drive. Save Parameters to EEPROM At this stage, our drive is commissioned, excluding the integrated safety part. Before commissioning safety, let's check that everything is working as expected by using the integrated Control Panel in & TIA Portal to run the motor. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 289212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Running with the Integrated Control Panel To use the integrated drive control panel in TIA Portal, |need to Go Online with the drive, Once online, you can open the control panel by clicking on "Control panel" in the Startdrive tree. To enable manual control of the drive, you have to activate Master Control. You can do this by clicking on the Activate button under the “Master control" section Activate Master Control Read the warning that pops up carefully and click Accept to activate master control. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 2053sarzaia2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Driv Integration in TIA Postal ae ores are Accept the Master Control Warning Once the control panel is activated, we can see that amotor measurementis active. This means that the next time we try to run the drive, the motor measurements will be done at a standstill Motor Measurement Warning Click on the Forward button to start the motor measurement process. The control panel updates to indicate that the motor measurements in process and I can hear the drive emitting high frequency noises. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potalsarzaia2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal reer jonary Measurement in Progress Once the measurements are finished, the drive switches to an off state. Now, we can run the drive manually from the control panel. To do this, enable the drive by clicking on "Set" under "Drive enables". Once the driveis enabled, you can set a speedin the Speed number input and click Forward to run the motor. Run the Drive Manually At this stage, the motor should be turning. With this simple test, we g have confirmed that the drive has been commissioned successfully. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 26159,‘reso, 559 PM ‘Complete Guid o SINAMICS Orv ntegraton in MA Portal When youare satisfied, stop the motor using the Stop button and deactivate master control with the Deactivate button. Now that we are sure that the drive commissioning was successful, we can move onto commissioning the drive's integrated safety features. Integrated Safety Commissioning To start the integrated safety commissioning of the drive, open the Parameter node of the drive in the Project Tree. From here, click on the "Start Safety integrated commissioning" on the Safety Integrated screen tegrated Commissioning Once you start commissioning the safety features of the drive, you are prompted to enter the default password for the drive and to seta new, more secure password, Enter the default password, O, for the drive and, if you wish, set anew password Iwill skip setting a new password by clicking OK after entering the default password. Obviously, this is not recommended fora drive that willbe used in a production system because it means that anyone can modify the safety features of the drive. G hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 27189sarzaia2, $53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Driv Integration in TIA Postal Enter and Update the Safety Password for the Drive The first step in commissioning the safety of the drive is to activate the safety features. In the "Selecting safety functionality" dropdown, choose the safety functions that you want to enable in the drive. For aG120C drive, the only option available is "Basic Functions". For higher end drives, there are also extended safety functions available. Selecting Safety Functionality Once the safety features have been activated, some additional buttons appear. To commission the safety features of the drive, we 6 want to visit the screens that these buttons link to in order. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal e059212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Click on "Control type / Safety Integrated Functions" to begin Additional Buttons for Safety Commissioning, The Control Type option indicates where the drives getting the STO signal from. The options here are from the terminals in the case of a hardwired e-stop, over Profisafe when controlled by a failsafe PLC, or acombination of both. In this example, the STO input will come from an e-stop which is hardwired to the STO terminals of the drive. Therefore, Ileave the Control Type option as "via terminals" (cy Control Type is Via Terminals hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 20159‘reso, 559 PM ‘A Complte Guide to SINAVICS Drive Integration in A Pot You can also click on the STO button to see the logic behind the STO function and select a digital output to turn on when STO is activated. This may be useful for activating a beacon or beeper when the local safety isnot OK. STO Logic and STO Active Output Thenext screen to visitis the "Test stop" screen. In this screen, you specify the amount of time that is permitted between Test Stops of the drive. Ina Test Stop, you activate and deactivate the STO features of the drive to verify that the safety circuit is working correctly. The time permitted between Test Stops for a driveis an output of the risk assessment that you undertake for the drive. When this time elapses, the drive will have a warning indicating that a Test Stop is required, The drive will carry on running while this warning is active but there will be an alarm present on the drive. A Test Stopis required to clear the alarm. Again, you can activate a digital output on the drive when atest stop is required (cy hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 0159sa12aia2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Test Stop Time Onthe next screen, F-DI/F-DO / PROFlsafe, you can configure some settings related to the safety inputs of the drive such as. discrepancy time between the input channels and filtering time. In general, you won't need to modify these values from the default values. F-DI Input Settings Thisis the end of the safety commissioning for the drive. Finalize the settings by clicking on "End Safety Integrated commissioning" (cy hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal asasa1rain2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal End Safety Integrated Commissioning When prompted, activate the safety settings by copying them from RAM to ROM Activate the Safety Settings Once the safety settings are activated, you will notice that the driveis shownin fault in the Project Tree. That's because there is a warning active that we have to perform a safety acceptance test. Youcan read about how to do a correct safety acceptance test in the SINAMICS Safety Integrated manual. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 2289‘reso, 559 PM ‘Complete Guid o SINAMICS Orv ntegraton in MA Portal Now that the safety commissioning is finalized, let's test what we have done so far in the integrated control panel. Test Safety Commissioning in Integrated Control Panel Backin the integrated control panel, we see that the driveisin fault and the reason for the faults that an acceptance testis required. Click on "Acknowledge faults" to clear the fault. Acknowledge Faults With the fault cleared, run the drive via the integrated control panel and press the hardwire e-stop. The drive will coast toastop, indicating that the STO feature of the driveis properly commissioned, Our safety commissioning is now done onlinein the drive. To ensure that we have an offline backup of the most up to date parameters for the drive, click on upload and upload the drive's data to the TIA Portal project. At this stage, we are finished with both the standard and safety commissioning of the drive. With the drive commissioning out of the way, we can focus on integrating the drive with the PLC to control the G drive over Profinet. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 59sa1rain2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Upload the Drive Parameters PLC Control of the Drive Program Conveyor Speed Control In the PLC, I'll create anew Function Block to encapsulate the control of the conveyor called Conveyor Speed Control. Add a New Block Called Conveyor Speed Control Inside this block, we will create a call to the block that interfaces with the drive. This block, called SinaSpeed, is a standard block developed by Siemens for speed control applications of SINAMICS drives. B Create a callto the block by dragging and dropping the block from hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 053212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal the Instructions pane under Optional Packages > SINAMICS > SinaSpeed. cree te Call to SinaSpeed In the Call Options dialog, choose to create a multi-instance DB for the call. Create a Multi Instance DB Let's look at the pins for this block while we tag it up. The EnableAxis pin acts as a start/stop control for the drive. When this pin high, the motor will run and when the pinis low, the motor will stop. g aw hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 3559212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal The AckError pin is used to acknowledge and reset faults in the drive. The SpeedSp pin is the speed that we want the drive to run at, measured in RPM. We'll skip the RefSpeed pin for now and circle back to it when we have finished parameterizing the other pins. The ConfigAxisis a Word who's individual bits can be used to change the behavior of the drive. For example, you could use the ConfigAxis word to activate a coast to stop functionin the drive, a quick stop function, or to reverse the direction of the motor. The HWDSTW and HWDZTW pins are hardware identifiers, which are unique, system generated identifiers for hardware in the hardware configuration. Although the block interface has room for two hardware identifiers, these will both have the same value so we can connect the same tag to both pins. The AxisEnabled pin effectively is a drive running signal. This pinis True when the motor is running, and False when the motor is stopped. The Lockout pin indicates that the drive cannot run. This may be because the STO function is activated or because the drive isin fault. The ActVelocity pin indicates the actual speed that the drive is running at, measured in RPM. Finally, we have standard pins for Error, Status, and Diagnostics. In the Function Block, | have connected tags that don't exist to the interface of the SinaSpeed block. You can see that the tags don't exist because they all have aed error underline. | could go ahead and define these tags one by one in the block interface or, to be as hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal (cy 659sa1rain2, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal efficient as possible, | can define these tags in bulk. To do that, right click in the network and click "Define tag..." Define Tag In the Define Tag dialog box, define the section of the interface where the tags should be defined. In this case, all of the tags on the left of the function block call should be defined as Local In andall of the tags on the right of the function block call should be defined as Local Out. Next, we can define the data types of all of the tags in the Data Type column. Finally, we could add a comment for the each tag. Since this a demo, | won't add comments. Obviously itis good practice to clearly commentaall of your tags in a production system. once these details are added, click "Define" to define the tags in the list. (cy hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal asasar2aia2, $53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Bulk Define Tags All of tags are now defined and error free. The last pin we have to parameterize is the RefSpeed pin. Internally, the drive transmits its actual speed as a percentage of the setpoint speed. When the PLC receives this percentage, it decodes the percentage back to an RPM value using the RefSpeed value. So, the value connected to the RefSpeed pinis a constant, which was already defined in the Startdrive Commissioning Wizard Important Parameters step. The default value for the drive's reference speedis 1500 RPM, and | know | didn't changeit, so | will hardcode the value 1500 tothe RefSpeed pin. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal e059212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal RefSpeed Pin Call Conveyor Speed Control In the Main OB, create a call to Conveyor Speed Control with a Single Instance DB. To provide a storage location for the interface signals between the PLC and HMI, also create a DB called HMI Interface. In this DB, I have added the tags that are used to parameterize the Conveyor Speed Control block. With these tags created, | can drag and drop them from the DB to the interface of the Conveyor Speed Control block to parameterize the block call Drag and Drop Parameters The most observant out there will notice that the SpeedSP input parameter is a Real type but we are using an integer typed tag in our HMI Interface DB. This is because on the HMI | will use a slider to set the speed of the drive, which only supports the integer data type. The good newsis that since an integer can safely be converted to a Real, TIA Portal willimplicitly do this conversion. You can see the TIA Portals doing implicit conversion on a parameter because there is a small grey 8 box on the pin that indicates that a conversions taking place. J hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 2959sarzaia2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Implicit Conversion from integer to Real The last pin to parameterize on the Conveyor Speed Control block is the HWID pin. We need to interconnect this pin with the hardware ID of the drive. This can be found in the Hardware Configuration or in the PLC Tag table under System Constants. In this case, | will copy and Paste the hardware |D from the Tag Table to the block call. Copy Hardware Constant Download and Test After tagging up the Conveyor Speed Control block, download the changes to the PLC G hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 40153sarzaia2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Download to the PLC Once downloaded, go online with the PLC and monitor. While online, modify the Speed Setpoint to 1000 RPM and toggle the StartStop bit to TRUE. You should see the motor starts turning and the Speed Actual Value ramp up to 1000 RPM. Run Motor With the motor running, press the e-stop to check that the local safety is working correctly. The motor coasts to a stop and the Lockout parameter of Conveyor Speed Controlis True hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 4153sa1pain2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Lockout During Emergency Stop After releasing the e-stop, the Lockout pin becomes False again but the motor will not immediately start running, After a safety event, the drive needs to see the positive flank of the run signal to start running again. Toggle the StartStop bit from True to False and back again to start running the motor again At this point, automatic drive controls integrated into our application code. The last thing to do is to integrate the HMI so that we can control the drive without going online with the PLC Integrate the HMI In this tutorial, Ihave tried to be as comprehensive as possible but this isnota HMI development tutorial so | will not show you how to put together the HMI. In the screenshot below, you seea very basic HMI that has been prepared previously. In this section, we'll go through the process of connecting the HMI components to the PLC tags and using the HMI to operate the drive. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 4283sarzaia2, $53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Drive Control HMI Tag Up Start, Stop, and Reset Buttons When the start button is pressed, we want the drive to run continuously. To accommodate this, I select the start button and navigate to the Press event under Properties > Events, When this eventis raised, we use the SetBit function to set the tag HMI Interface.StartStop to True. Start Button Configuration Incontrast, we want to configure the Stop button to reset the same tag. When this button is pressed, the StartStop tagis reset and the B hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 4253212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal motor stops running ‘Stop Button Configuration Finally, we will configure the Reset button. Unlike the previous buttons, we don't want to set or reset a tag with this button. Instead, we want it to work like a momentary pushbutton where the tag is True while the button is pressed and False when the buttonis released. To achieve this functionality, we can use the SetBitWhileKeyPressed function. Reset Button Configuration hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 4053‘2p, 553 PM ‘AComplte Guide to SINAVICS Drive Inagraton in IA Portal Tag Up Speed Display, Speed Display Gauge, and Speed Control Slider With the HMI buttons configured correctly, we can shift our focus to visualizing and controlling the drive's setpoint speeds. To start, we'll connect the actual speed tag to the numeric display on the HMI. This can be done under Properties > Properties > General > Tag Actual Speed Numeric Display We'llalso visualize the speed relative to the drive's reference speed using a gauge control. Once again, we can connect the actual speed tag to the gauge control by selecting the component and connecting the tag under Properties > Properties > General > Process Tag. hitps:iwwwkb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration-n-ia-potal 4553212422, §:53 PM ‘A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal Actual Speed Gauge We will use a slide control to set the speed setpoint of the drive. Connect the speed setpoint tag to the slide control by selecting the component and connecting the tag under Properties > Properties > General > Process Tag. Setpoint Speed Control Slider Tag Up Drive Status Indicators Next, we'lltag up the drive status display indicators. For the Drive Enabled indicator, | will set the color to green when the driveis enabled. This can be done by selecting the component and navigating to Properties > Animations > Display > Appearance and configuring the color based on the tag value. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 4659sar2aia2, §:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Pesta mr Drive Enabled Indicator Finally, | will do the same for the Drive Fault status indicator. Drive Fault Status Indicator Speed Up Acquisition Time The last thing that | will dois speed up the HMI Acquisition time for specific tags. I'm going to increase the acquisition time from 1 second to 100 milliseconds. This faster acquisition time stops the HMI graphics from looking laggy. We can set the HMI tag acquisition time onaper tag basis in the Tag Editor. hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 4783sarzaia2, $53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Drive Integration in TIA Postal HMI Acquisition Time Simulate and Test the HMI Finally, we can simulate and test the HMI. To start the simulation, click on the Start Simulation button. Simulate HMI Now, Ican use the HMI to start the drive. Once started, I see that the motor begins to turn and the drive ramps up to the setpoint speed hitps:wwuckb-cantals.ofposta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivsintegraion n-ia-potal 4053sarzaia2, 5:53 PM A Complete Guide to SINAMICS Driv Integration in TIA Postal age ae casa R ett Control Drive via HMI Icanalso; * Stop the drive * Modify the setpoint speed of the drive * Visualize faults * Reset faults At this point, we can say that the drive controlis now completely integrated into the HMI. Wrap Up In this epic post, we have covered the complete process of integrating SINAMICS drives into a TIA Portal project. Along the way, we have learned how to add drives to the hardware configuration, use Startdrive to commission standard and safety features of drives, control drives in our PLC programs using standard telegrams and blocks, and to integrate drive control into a HMI application. Itturned into quite along post, but I'm happy with the journey we've B been on - there's ton of value in here for anyone who is getting up hitps:wwuckb-cantals.o/posta-complele-quide-c-sinamics-ivintegration n-ia-potal 4959tora, 553M ‘Complete Guid o SINAMICS Orv ntegraton in MA Portal and running with SINAMICS drives in a new project. If you want more great content lke this delivered directly to your inbox every week, be sure to subscribe to the mailing list below. 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