Siemens TIA Portal Openness Feature Functionality and Possible Use European Spallation Source – Integrated Control System Division Nick Levchenko CERN Date: 2016-02-01

Scope Functionality & Features Availability & Compatibility Installation & Use

Functionality & Features Automation of engineering by controlling the TIA Portal externally from within a custom made program you have created The following functions are available: create/delete project data, PLC and HMI data modify projects and project data (import/export/etc.) download/upload/compare project data to/from PLC/HMI

Use @ ESS CCDB TIA Portal Custom Application Database that holds information on all devices, their locations, controlling them PLC’s, etc. Custom Application Openness TIA Portal Generates PLC code (in the form of import files) Extracts data from CCDB Uses Openness to import files to PLC project

System Architecture TIA Portal Openness provides a public API (DLL) Users can create their own application (MS Visual Studio: C#, VB.Net, etc.) to use any functions provided by the API

Object Model

Availability & Compatibility Available from TIA Portal V12 SP1 More feature added with every version Currently available via Siemens only (some files required) Will be publicly available from TIA Portal V14

Configurations have to be adapted Siemens Roadmap XML-Export of SCL blocks XML-Import of SCL/GRAPH/LAD/FBD blocks Export/Import of HWCN data Generation/Modification APIs for TIA Portal Project data Up/download Compare Im/Export of HMI project data for HMI RT Prof Predecessors functional replacement Open and close TIA Portal Open, save, close project Import/export of HMI configuration data for HMI RT Advanced XML-Export PLC blocks of S7-300/400 Read tag tables Read selected hardware configuration data XML-Export PLC blocks of S7-1200/1500 (except SCL) Export/import tag tables via XML Modify a TIA project via UI and API Import ASCII sources (STL/SCL/DB/UDT) XML-Import of LAD/FBD/GRAPH blocks Generate ASCII Source from Block (STL/SCL/DB/UDT) Extended possibilities for reading data from the project (Blocks and library data) Support of the UserXperienceSet Import/export of extended HMI configuration data for HMI RT Advanced XML-Import of PLC blocks in S7-1500 (only STL) Copy from Library to Device Start Block Editor / Tag Editor Start Compile PLC / HMI Silent Update Check for type objects TIAP > V14 Openness TIAP V13 SP1 Openness TIAP V13 Openness TIAP V12 SP1 Openness Configurations have to be adapted

Installation & Use Contact your local Siemens They will provide you with some installation and configuration files and user manuals They will also provide some demo applications (as Visual Studio projects)

Example

Traditional Import/Export Generate text files (*.scl, *.db, etc.) Attach them as external sources Manually generate block from external sources using TIA Portal Any changes? Repeat steps 1 and 3

Openness Import/Export Generate XML files Automatically import them into TIA Portal Any changes? Repeat steps 1 and 2, which can be fully automated in your custom made software tool Traditional import/export using connected external sources still available and usable via Openness as well

XML File Additional Features Better, industry-standard format XML import lets one create instance DB with user-defined name AND number: https://support.industry.siemens.com/tf/ww/en/posts/tia-and-creating-db-s/88731/?page=0&pageSize=10

Demo