siemens open library- summit 2016

Faster Development Using the Siemens Open LibraryJohnathan Sullivan – Connect ID 7893

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Agenda

• DMC Overview• What is a Portal Library• What is in the Siemens

Open Library• How Does it Work• Success Story• Making

Changes/Contributing• Questions

DMC Company Profile

Established in 1996, offices in Chicago, Denver, Boston, Houston, and New York

Cityemployees &

growing

100+

Tim Jager

Do we have a slide that shows this information more graphically?

Automotive Chemical & Food

Processing

Consumer Goods Defense Contracting Energy & Utilities Food

& Beverage Packaging Pharmaceutical Printing & Textiles

Semiconductor

Special Machinery Telecommunications Test & Measurement

Industries Served

Presenter Info

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

• With DMC since 2009• Relocated to Denver in August of 2014 with 3 other engineers.

• Siemens Certified Professional• Control Systems PE• Teaches Rockwell to Siemens Training classes

John SullivanProject Director (Denver)

PortalLibraries

What is Included

• Types• Version controlled,

dependency linked, instantiable items

What is Included



• FBs, FCs, UDTs, screens, faceplates, scripts, others

What is Included



• FBs, FCs, UDTs, screens, faceplates, scripts, others

• Master Copies• Copies of project items.

Not versioned, no dependencies, etc.

What is Included

• Types• Version controlled, dependency

linked, instantiable items• FBs, FCs, UDTs, screens,

faceplates, scripts, others• Master Copies

• Copies of project items. Not versioned, no dependencies, etc.

• Anything in your project (Anything from Types, PLCs, Hardware configuration, tag tables, and more)

What is Included

Siemens Global

Libraries

• Several built in global Libraries• Lots focused on the HMI• Additional Motion Functions• Most use Master Copies

Siemens Global Libraries

Project vs

GlobalLibraries

Project vs Global

Project

Project• Unique to every project

Project• Unique to every project• Holds types and master

copies that are only viewable in that project



• Every type in your project is in your project library.




• Project items (types) must be instantiated from here

Project• Unique to every project• Holds types and master copies

that are only viewable in that project



• Can contain items from multiple global projects

Global

Global• Can be opened and viewed

by any project


by any project • Can be archived (.zal13 file)


by any project • Can be archived (.zal13 file)• Cannot instantiate types

directly (except HMI)


by any project • Can be archived (.zal13 file)• Cannot instantiate types

directly (except HMI)• Everything brought into

project from here is copied into the project library.

Siemens Open

Library

What is it?

• Developed by DMC over many years

What is it?


• Collaboration with Siemens to release it

What is it?

&



• Collection of standard objects to speed development

What is it?



• Collection of standard objects to speed development

• Available to anyone under and Open Source License (Modify, Redistribute, Sell)

What is it?

What is Included

• Library Objects• Function Block• User Defined

Type• Pop-up

Faceplate• Icon Faceplate

What is Included

• Library Objects

• Documentation

What is Included

• Library Objects

• Documentation

• Example Project

What is Included

• Library Objects

• Documentation

• Example Project

• Excel Macro for Alarm Generation

What is Included

Motor Control:• G Series VFD Control –

fbVFD_GSeries

Which Blocks


fbVFD_GSeries• Analog VFD Control –

fbVFD_Analog

Which Blocks



fbVFD_Analog• Digital Single Speed Motor –

fbMotor_Reversing

Which Blocks




fbMotor_Reversing• Simocode Pro V Starter –

fbMotor_ProV (coming soon)• 3RW Starter – fbMotor_3RW

(coming soon)

Which Blocks






(coming soon)

Valve Control:• Two State Solenoid Valve –

fbValve_Solenoid

Which Blocks






(coming soon)


fbValve_Solenoid• Analog Valve – fbValve_Analog

Which Blocks

Which BlocksInputs/Ouputs• Analog Input with Scaling and

Alarms – fbIO_AnalogInput


Alarms – fbIO_AnalogInput• Analog Output with Scaling –

fbIO_AnalogOutput



fbIO_AnalogOutput

System Control• Interlock Function Block -

fbInterlock



fbIO_AnalogOutput


fbInterlock• PID Interface –

fbPID_CompactInterface



fbIO_AnalogOutput



fbPID_CompactInterface• Standard Alarm Interface -

fbAlarmWarning






(coming soon)


fbValve_Solenoid• Analog Valve – fbValve_Analog



fbIO_AnalogOutput



fbPID_CompactInterface• Standard Alarm Interface -

fbAlarmWarning

• Download at OpenPLCLibrary.com

• Contribute by emailing it to [email protected]

• Report issues to same email address

Where is it?

Success Story

• Customer• Chocolate

Manufacturer• Pumping Butter!

• Developer• DMC Engineer with

<1 year experience• Limited oversight

from Senior Engineer

Who

• Awesome 22in HMIResults

• Awesome 22in HMI• Modified Library to work

with continuous travel valves• Changed PLC logic, but

no need to change HMI

Results

• Awesome 22in HMI• Modified Library to work with

continuous travel valves• Manual Control Right Away

• Needed something very fast

• Mapping IO to Function blocks and HMI, allowed customer to get manual control.

Results

• Awesome 22in HMI• Modified Library to work with

continuous travel valves• Manual Control Right Away• New Engineer Trained

• Had limited support due to tight timeline

• Documentation allowed engineer with basic PLC knowledge to learn best practices

Results

Making Changes & Contributi

ng

• Just do it!• If you find a bug or develop something you can

share with others, email [email protected]

• Make changes as needed for any project and contribute as possible

• The goal is to improve the entire community together.

How/when to edit the Open Library

mailto:[email protected]

Summary

• Portal Libraries are great• Siemens Open Library is

• Free• Helpful• Editable• Improved by you

• Get it here: OpenPLCLibrary.com

John Sullivan- Connect ID [email protected]

• By Type (Data Types, Faceplates, PLC Type)

• Open to changes• Will have an undocumented

folder, which will contain all of DMC Lib

Open Library Organization

• Edit DMC Lib block• Change type to Open Lib reference block• Release the version

Resolving Duplicates

Master Copies

• Almost all project items can be saved

• No dependencies means that things can break easily

• Should only be used for items that cannot be types

Project:• Unique to every project• Holds types and master


• Every type in your project is in your project library. The reverse is not necessarily true.


• Can contain items from multiple global projects

Project Library vs. Global Libraries Global:

• Can be opened and viewed by any project (only 1 at a time)

• Can be archived to a .zal13 archive

• Cannot instantiate types directly

• Changes made in either project or library can be quickly sync’d

• Updates to your project library automatically update all links to blocks in your project

Updating project/global libraries

• You can view what the dependencies are (both directions)

• View by version number• View instances in the project• Clean up library/harmonize project

Library management

• Allows you to assign a new version to a block

• Can’t think of a good use case for this. High risk for messing up dependencies

• Things this does:• Assigns new version number• Deletes older version in project• Updates all references in

project to new version

Assign version…

• Need to have a instance in your project. It will ask you which instance to use if you edit from the project library

• Editing from your PLC block and your project library are the same

Block editing

Faceplate editing

Releasing a new version

• This part of the library is for reference only• Created by auto-upgrading a Simatic Manager

project. Blocks cannot be trusted.• Try everything else before using anything in here• Exceptions:

• Global tag table• Pre-made DBs

DMC Library - Master copies

• Most all items and versions are tested• Still need to be aware that these are new blocks

(to Portal)• If you find a bug, please report/fix it ASAP

• Version 1.0 = old DMC library version with slight upgrades

• Version 1.5 – adds HMI “status” INT that allows for multiple colors on Siemens HMIs

DMC Library - Types

Global Library Properties