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Issue Modicon Managed Switch has many different methods to set the IP Address. Resolution The aim of this document is to provide a step by step guide for setting the IP Address for a Modicon Managed Switch using various methods including Out of Band and command line configuration.. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue The BMENOR2200 can be easily configured to work in non-secure mode and many applications will use this. However, if a more secure connection is required, then this requires some additional configuration. Resolution This document describes the extended configuration required for the module to run and communicate in secure mode. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue How to work with a TÜV Rheinland certified controller, Modicon M580 Safety ePAC, within the EcoStruxure Process Expert? Resolution The EcoStruxure™ Process Expert supports users to create, configure, program, and deploy process and safety applications to the Modicon M580 Safety controller. The Modicon M580 Safety controller is added as part of the EcoStruxure™ Process Expert system architecture, providing seamless transparency connections into the system network. The EcoStruxure™ Process Expert handles the process logic part for M580 Safety controllers, while the safety related part will be handled by the control participant, ensuring safety functions and process control are separated and independent within a common engineering environment. Attached document will show how this is possible. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue At System Platform Management Console (SMC) is where all the communication drivers from AVEVA System Platform are installed. Natively, we can have OPC DA clients, OPC UA clients, we can use Modicon Communication Server, as an OPC UA Server to communicate with Modicon PLC’s. We can also use SMC as an OPC DA Server, to make all the variables from AVEVA System Platform available to other OPC DA clients, such as Inbatch. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue For the public not familiarized with Aveva System Platform 2020 and how to configure a setup of one GR node and one EAE client so that the EAE can connect to the Galaxy Repository. Resolution Explain all the required AVEVA System Platform Components in both machines together with the DCOM settings Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue If you ever tried to link EcoStruxure Plant Data Expert: Essential Nodes directly to EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor Nodes, you will find that EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor Nodes do not accept the CMS payload which EcoStruxure Plant Data Expert: Essential Nodes produce. Resolution This is an article to teach us how we can use EcoStruxure Plant Data Expert: Essential Nodes with EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor Nodes with the introduction of Change Node within our Flow. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue This document will help you in the integration and configuration of the IO.MBTCP driver for AVEVA System Platform as well as in the integration of the AVEVA Insight cloud historization solution. Resolution For this proof of concept, we have created a small application in M580 with a localized variable. This variable will be read through IO.MBTCP Driver and then will be published in AVEVA Insight. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue There are often customer requirements to send safety related data over communications links. At the same time, the requirement automatically arises for the transference of safe and non-safe data via a collective standard network. A safe network will allow the Safety controller to communicate with each other and provides a robust and safe means of sending safety related data using the communications medium that best suits the applications and budget. Resolution With M580 Safety CPU firmware 3.20 or later, the safe time synchronization is based on an internal "monotonic" time clock. The safe communication DOES NOT need NTP time synchronization as the CPU is sharing its safe time with all its local and remote I/Os. The remote I/O drop uses BM•CRA31210 module and must have a firmware 2.60 or later to work. A monotonic clock is a time source that always moves forward and will not be impacted by variations leading to jumps in time (due to NTP or Daylight Savings Time updates). Monotonic uses Thomas Habets's cross platform "monotonic_clock" library under the hood. Attached herewith are two documents file that guide you on how to implement Safe Peer-to-Peer communication between two M580 Safety ePAC (MASTER PAC and SLAVE PAC). Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Background Growing in popularity now is the trend to propagate data into the Cloud. AVEVA Insight Online is one of the featured Applications which we can easily propagate data to and have them displayed as smart data to be viewed anywhere. When using AVEVA Insight Online as it is, without any added configurations, we usually have our contents displayed in its simplest form as below. Objective When this knowledge is applied, not only are we able to get the Units of Measurements to show (on the Analog Tags), but we are able to also get Digital Tags to show a descriptive state instead of just ON and OFF. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Objective The objective of this article is to guide us through data acquisition with EMSE over OPC UA. And we shall be going for full blown OPC UA security (the need for user authentication, Certificates and X.509 Token usage) so that we can experience what is involved to get it running. We shall be touching heavily on EcoStruxture OPC UA Expert as well because the simulation project will be running behind that, in a PLC Simulator. Snapshots Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue Cannot open a project under Project Configuration Tool following the installation of Windows Updates. Cannot start PCT project servers following installation or Windows Updates. Product Line Project Configuration Tool Environment Building Operation Project Configuration Tool (PCT) Cause Configuring Windows Updates for unsupervised installation can result in an ungraceful shutdown of Virtual Box and Project Configuration Tool There have been cases where an ungraceful shutdown of PCT or VBox has resulted in a damaged project or a damaged server within a project. Resolution All projects within the Project Configuration Tool should be shut down prior to the installation of Windows Updates.

Issue This document defines how to design Energy Management Systems for Cement Manufacturing, include Energy management system introduction, Energy management system Functions and the example Bill of Materials, KPIs, and predefined dashboard list. Resolution See the attachment for more details. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Issue The best way to experience and learn the General Purpose Library is to run the Demonstration Project and explore its features and configuration. An updated version has been created General Purpose Library & AVEVA System Platform 2023 Demonstration – Setup Guide Resolution The attached document is to provide a step by step guide for the installation and setup of the General Purpose Library (GPL) with Wonderware System Platform using the supplied Demonstration Project. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

C Resolution This document defines in functional terms the way in which the SimSci APC, running on a dedicated PC Server, will connect to DCS OPC Server. The document should be used as the basis for the configuration of the additional tags and logic. Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Schneider Electric.

Are you experiencing problem logon into EcoStruxure Process Expert System Server? Are you forgot the password? Or you want to set up another user name? If your server or workstation is managed and connected to domain controller then simply ask your domain administrator to re-set your password or give your account access to the roles of “ESX HDCS System Admin”. However, if the server or workstation is managed by your-self running on Physical Machine or Virtual Machine (VM) then this document will guide you how to regain your access to EcoStruxure Process Expert System Server in above case. There are some workarounds to resolve this problem. This document will explain all possible workarounds and considerations you need to take before determining the method suits your case.

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