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Issue To enable remote access of EcoStruxure Automation Expert Platform, you need to create and configure the On-Prem Lite certificate. Resolution The objective of this article is to guide you through the steps to create self-signed certificate for your EcoStruxure Automation Expert Platform On-Prem Lite installer. 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.

Introduction The attached document explains the best practice of implementation of FDT/ DTM technologies for integration of smart instruments (HART supported instrumentations) into Automation system architecture Exercise In the exercise, it will have some specific customer requirements scenario. By the completion of this lab the participant will be able to: • To design and to decide the correct place/ platform to implement FDT/DTM in order to answer specific customer requirements in their whole life cycle of the project (engineering/development, commissioning, maintenance and operation • To understand the drawback or limitation for each platform in term of FDT/DTM implementation in order to help participant to decide the correct platform. 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 outline some of the user experience with respect to supervision project performance while using EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS. Use cases are like slow page update, alarm / trend & communication errors when dealing with large scale projects. There are multiple factors which effects supervision performance, however, can be finetuned with user experience. Majority of them are covered in this document to address such scenario. This gives better understanding and help user to improve supervision performance. Resolution Enter resolution. 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 Data Grid in EAE’s HMI is useful for many purposes. In this article, we will learn how to populate it with recipes so that the user may choose one to eventually send to a controller. Behind all of these are C# Codes. We will learn the codes and techniques necessary to perform the operations related. The eventual bigger picture is towards building a bigger application such as one that retrieves information from a data source. But before we can do that, we need to know the basics of Data Grid first. 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 Online help files or documents are intended to be easily accessible and searchable, allowing users to quickly find the information they need. Developing an online help file for your custom user Derived Function Block (DFB) can be very beneficial. Resolution This article will explore how to create customized online help for your user Derived Function Block (DFB). This online help document can be accessed by pressing the F1 key or right-clicking on the selected DFB and selecting the 'Help on Type' option from the contextual menu. 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 aim of this document is to provide a step by step guide for the installation and setup of EcoStruxure Automation Expert Soft dPAC into a Raspberry PI 4 and deploy a solution from the Buildtime software. Resolution Download the pdf document 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 Resetting a Modicon Redundant Switch may leave the web browser inaccessible, so it is not possible to configure the switch. Resolution This article describes how to do a full factory reset using the command line of the switch. It follows on from the knowledgebase article Modicon Redundant Switch - Factory Reset Without Password which is included here for convenience. 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 Sometimes the password for the Modicon Redundant Switch can be misplaced and therefore need to be Factory Reset. Note: The Knowledge Base article to Factory Reset a Modicon Managed Switch can be found here https://community.se.com/t5/Industrial-Automation-Knowledge/Modicon-Managed-Switch-Factory-Reset-with-Memory-backup-adapter/ta-p/475864 Resolution The following Knowledge Base article details the steps required to Factory Reset the Modicon Redundant Switch when the Username and Password are not known. Download the PDF for instructions. 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 demonstrate how to setup a remote connection with 2 layers of LAN using the M262 controller Resolution Configuring the IP forwarding on the NAT router and well as enabling IP forwarding for the corresponding controllers. In addition, you need configure a static route in the router to tell it how to reach the LAN2. 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 purpose of this document is to look at how and why devices using the Ethernet/IP protocol need to be managed at a switch level and how these simple settings can help improve system performance. Resolution Please review the document below. 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 I would like to upgrade the firmware of my Modicon Switch to overcome published vulnerabilities identified in the previous firmware version or gain access to features delivered in a newer Resolution The aim of this article is to provide a step-by-step guide to update the firmware of Modicon Managed Switch using the Web Interface. 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 Topology Manager Client-Server model, or Client-Server Architecture, is a distributed application framework dividing tasks between servers and clients, which either reside in the same computer system or communicate through an Ethernet network. It simplifies the automation life cycle by managing multi-controllers with a central repository for all project files and providing visibility of the entire system architecture. How do I set up a central repository to store all the system project files and manage multiple controllers? Toplogy Manager Client-Server Architecture Resolution Technically, there’s no limit to the number of clients. There’s only one installation file that installs both EcoStruxure Control Expert and the Topology Manager. Both server and client files are always installed together. The objective of this article is to offer guidelines for setting up a client-server architecture for Topology Manager. 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 EcoStruxure Control Expert doesn't provide Double length real calculation functions. Resolution This library performs Long real calculation using an array type LREAL of 2 Dword, where the long real is coded using IEEE 754 format. The zip file attached contains the library, a FBD section to test the library and a tool allowing to convert the IEEE 754 format (useful to make the test) Be aware that all the controls are not performed when overflow happens, so use the library with care, mainly when you perform type conversions. Function list Math functions ADD_DREAL SUB_DREAL MUL_DREAL DIV_DREAL ABS_DREAL NEG_DREAL POW_DREAL SQRT_DREAL EXP_DREAL LN_DREAL LOG_DREAL Trigononmetric Functions ACOS_DREAL ASIN_DREAL ATAN_DREAL COS_DREAL SIN_DREAL TAN_DREAL Logic Functions EQ_DREAL GE_DREAL GT_DREAL LE_DREAL LT_DREAL Convertion Functions INT_TO_DREAL DINT_TO_DREAL DREAL_TO_DINT DREAL_TO_INT DREAL_TO_REAL DREAL_TO_STRING REAL_TO_DREAL 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. This library is given as if. Use of the library is the responsibility of the user

Issue The Redundant Power Supply solutions for M580 provide a mechanism for reading device status and command the swapping of roles from duty to standby. Resolution The purpose of this document is to illustrate how to use these commands, with a particular reference to the implementation in a Hot Standby system. 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 purpose of this article is to highlight the steps needed to set up a SmartVisu in EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin for a robot application. This article is not dealing with target handling, it shows how to add static objects (Robots, Conveyors). Resolution This article highlighted how to set up a SmartVisu in EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin. It explained the steps required to create static objects for a robot application and guided the reader through the necessary procedures in the related software.

Issue I would like to upgrade the firmware of my Modicon Edge I/O NTS Network Interface Module to overcome published vulnerabilities identified in the previous firmware version or gain access to features delivered in a newer version. Resolution The aim of this article is to provide a step-by-step guide to properly upgrade the firmware of the Modicon Edge I/O NTS Network Interface Module NTSNEC1200 from V0.1.45 or earlier to V1.0.0.503. 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 BME ECN 0100 Edge Compute Module uses the Docker environment running on an ARM processor. Resolution The purpose of this document is to show a method of using a Linux (Ubuntu) OS running on a laptop, usually an x86 processor, to create and run a container on the BME ECN 0100. 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.

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