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PLC and HMI Development with Siemens TIA Portal

By : Liam Bee
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PLC and HMI Development with Siemens TIA Portal

By: Liam Bee

Overview of this book

With automation requirements on the rise, Siemens’ TIA Portal development environment is almost a necessity for any automation engineer. The Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) environment helps seamlessly integrate all things automation, from PLC hardware and software design to HMI development. This book helps you understand the tools available in the TIA toolbox and shows you how to write code effectively. The book begins by introducing you to the TIA environment, covering the layout and tools available. Once you’ve got to grips with the environment, you’ll find out how to create hardware to write programs against, including adding IO modules and assigning memory for input and output. Next, you'll develop logic in all of the languages that TIA Portal offers, such as Ladder, Function Block Diagram, and Structured Text (SCL) (note that Statement List is not covered as a deprecated language), as well as the newest language, Cause and Effect (CEM). You’ll also discover how to store standard code in libraries, creating a version control system that is easy to manage and aids standard design. Finally, following the PLC design chapters, you’ll learn how to develop HMI applications in TIA Portal’s latest unified hardware. By the end of the book, you'll be well equipped to use all of the features that TIA Portal V17 offers.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1 – The TIA Portal – Project Environment
5
Section 2 – TIA Portal – Languages, Structures, and Configurations
11
Section 3 – TIA Portal – HMI Development
16
Section 4 – TIA Portal – Deployment and Best Practices

Setting dynamic properties

Nearly all static properties can be made dynamic through the Dynamization feature built into TIA Portal and Unified HMIs. Dynamization allows the modification of property values during runtime. This means that properties such as color, visibility, and more can be modified to react to data that is being passed to a property. You can see an example of this in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.4 – Example of Visibility property set to Tag for dynamization

By setting the dynamization of a property, additional information needs to be provided to the property, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.5 – Tag dynamization additional properties

These additional requirements appear to the right of the Properties list when a dynamization property is selected.

Note

Depending on the type of dynamization used, the view may look different and have different options.

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