Premium HMI 4.0.1154
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Premium HMI 4.0.1154
Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 Premium HMI 4.0.1154 Introduzione This documents contains the release notes for Premium HMI 4.0.1154. The news are mainly related to the following aspects: New features to improve programming of basic functions such as export of archives, alarms managing, variables import. New communication drivers and some improvements. Bug fix Version 1 Description First emission Date 26/01/2016 Disclaimer The information given in the documentation could change without notice and doesn't represent any obligation for ASEM S.p.A.. ASEM S.p.A. is not responsible for technical mistakes or other omissions and declines every responsibility resulting from its use. ASEM S.p.A. will not be responsible for any loss of profits or damages, direct or not, of any kind (included loss or damages of data), deriving from the use of this documentation. Pagina 1 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 Table of contents 1 The news about Premium HMI 4.0.1154 ................................................................................................... 3 1.1 New commands to export data ......................................................................................................... 3 1.1.1 New command to export Dataloggers ........................................................................................... 3 1.1.2 New command to export the historical alarm log .......................................................................... 4 1.1.3 New command to export Audit Trail .............................................................................................. 5 1.2 Import tag filter .................................................................................................................................. 6 1.3 Drag & Drop ...................................................................................................................................... 8 1.4 New option to execute specific commands upon selected alarm on touch systems ......................... 8 1.5 Database limits extension ................................................................................................................. 9 1.6 Embedded reports improvements ..................................................................................................... 9 1.6.1 New option “Audit trail” source ...................................................................................................... 9 1.6.2 Chronological reports with multiple sources.................................................................................. 9 1.7 New option to interpolate the trend curve drawing .......................................................................... 10 1.8 New option for sliders ..................................................................................................................... 10 1.9 New command to wake up from screen saver ................................................................................ 11 1.10 Premium HMI Runtime license identification................................................................................... 12 1.11 Premium HMI Runtime license extensions ..................................................................................... 12 2 Communication protocols ........................................................................................................................ 13 2.1 New communication drivers for Simatic TIA programmable systems ............................................. 13 2.2 Ethernet S7 TIA Protocol ................................................................................................................ 14 2.3 Ethernet S7 TIA ProfiNET Protocol ................................................................................................. 14 3 Bug fix ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 Pagina 2 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 1 The news about Premium HMI 4.0.1154 Premium HMI 4.0.1154 introduces some important new features specifically designed to simplify and speed up the programming of HMI applications without having to resort to the use of the script. Was also held the usual activity of bug fixes which improves the overall quality of the development and Runtime environment. 1.1 New commands to export data With Premium 4.0.1154 HMI there are now available some new native commands for exporting historical without having to resort to scripting procedures. New commands are then available to export of data stored for data logger, alarm and Audit Trail. 1.1.1 New command to export Dataloggers The new command is available in the "Report-recipes” category. The command creates a CSV text file with all the content of the archive. There are a few options for customizing the format and how data will be exported. You can establish which character to use as a separator. It is possible to define in advance a fixed path for exporting data, or leave to the operator to decide at each execution of the command. You can add to the name of each exported file a prefix that identifies the time when was made the export operation. Pagina 3 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 1.1.2 New command to export the historical alarm log The new command is available in the “Alarm” category. The command creates a CSV file with the entire content of the historical alarm log. There are a few options for customizing the format and how data will be exported. You can establish which character to use as a separator. It is possible to define in advance a fixed path for exporting data, or leave to the operator to decide at each execution of the command. You can add to the name of each exported file a prefix that identifies the time when was made the export operation. Pagina 4 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 1.1.3 New command to export Audit Trail The new command is available in the "Report-recipes” category. The command creates a CSV text file with all the historical content of the Audit Trail. The Audit Trail is an archive that contains a history of the changes in value applied to one or more variables identified by time, by the old value and the new one and the indication of which user changed the value. There are a few options for customizing the format and how data will be exported. You can establish which character to use as a separator. It is possible to define in advance a fixed path for exporting data, or leave to the operator to decide at each execution of the command. You can add to the name of each exported file a prefix that identifies the time when was made the export operation. Pagina 5 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 1.2 Import tag filter Premium HMI 4.0.1154 introduces the ability to apply filters during import of variables directly in the moment you select them before actually they are really imported; this significantly improves the tag selection process which is often taking considerable time depending on how big is the PLC database. This new feature makes it extremely easy to make a wise choice of variables to be imported to prevent the insertion in the project a lot of unnecessary items weighting Runtime execution of the project. Pagina 6 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 The filter can be applied to the name, address and type at the same time. Simply start typing inside the text box to filter the list which will be populated according to the filtered content. The tag import filter is protocol dependent and it has been implemented for the following protocols: EtherNET/IP EtherNET/IP Micro 800 Hilscher NetX MPI Beckhoff TwinCAT Konnex – EIB CODESYS Siemens S7-MPI COMx Siemens PPI Siemens S7 TCP Siemens S7 TCP TIA Siemens S7 TCP TIA Profinet Siemens Simotion B&R TCP Hilscher MPI Hilscher NetLink Omron FINS Ethernet Omron FINS Serial Pagina 7 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 1.3 Drag & Drop Premium HMI 4.0.1154 introduces on the Windows 32/64 platforms the innovative function to drag & drop and resize objects during execution of the project through the use of the mouse and touch interface. The "Dragging" allows you to move or resize a symbol using the mouse during Runtime. Its size and position values are then shown in the bounded variables. This property is part of the "animations" property of controls, and will be available on all objects that support it. The drag and drop function at Runtime is a tool very important and very effective for projects with a high degree of dynamism respect the the placement of objects. This category of functions is for example extremely useful to create applications in the packaging area where is frequently requested to the operator to determine the positioning of workpieces and storage or object stacking. 1.4 New option to execute specific commands upon selected alarm on touch systems One of the most common requests made by users when dealing with the display of alarms, is that you can associate with each alarm an action that can be executed after selecting the alarm while it is still present in the active alarms. This feature was applicable in the past only to systems with keyboard as the triggering event of the programmed action is the "CTRL + double click", which of course is not practical on system with only the touch interface. Pagina 8 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 The alarm window has changed by adding an additional button to run the command specified in the "commands to CTRL + double Click" property which is available for each threshold of all alarms. 1.5 Database limits extension Premium HMI 4.0.1154 significantly extends the actual limits for the maximum number of columns that you can use in your database tables. With specific reference to WinCE systems on ARM architecture (HMI25/HMI30/LP3x) and the use of relational database (Microsoft SQL CE Compact), it has been extended to 1024 the maximum number of columns configurable in a table, i.e. in a recipe structure or datalogger. This avoids the need to concatenate the recipes and thus greatly simplifies their use. 1.6 Embedded reports improvements "Reports" resources allow very efficiently to implement directly from the HMI environment complex and complete printing reports that bring data both from the real time data base and from the historical archives such as the datalogger. Premium version 4.0.1154 extends the support of reports introducing the possibility to get the data from all the available archive even at the same time. 1.6.1 New option “Audit trail” source Premium HMI 4.0.1154 allows to create Reports getting data from the Audit Trail database. The Audit Trail resource has been newly introduced now, next to the others already present like recipes, dataloggers and historical events. 1.6.2 Chronological reports with multiple sources Premium HMI 4.0.1154 allows to create embedded reports getting data from multiple databases at the same time providing a chronological representation of the recorded events. Pagina 9 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 Selecting in the report configuration data source property the "multiple sources" option you have now the ability to select which archives have to be included in between all the available at project level. This allows you to create a report of events in exact chronological order, this function is extremely useful in all applications requiring traceability documentation of operator actions. 1.7 New option to interpolate the trend curve drawing The Trend Viewer has been enhanced to include a new option for drawing curves with interpolation in the cases over sampling (constant value for different samples) or when for different reasons the sample value is actually missing in real-time database, for example due to a communications failure generated at the protocol level. The option exists at the level of each trend pen and lets you specify the number of samples to interpolate in the event that the sampled value of the variable is constant. The interpolation allows you to switch between serrated views like the imagine left to a more blunt and smooth as that one shown on the right. 1.8 New option for sliders Sliders are HMI objects that allow you to change the value of the connected variable by dragging a slider or aiming directly on a graduated scale with the mouse or finger if there is a pure touch interface. The previous way of working had only the possibility to write directly to the controller memory all the changes at the fastest possible rate while the cursor was moving. Pagina 10 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 With Premium 4.0.1154 there is an additional option allowing to slow down the execution of the Scriptures by introducing a delay between them. 1.9 New command to wake up from screen saver It is often useful for the HMI application to interact with the screen saver function and determine when to wake up the unit from the “sleeping” status as a result for example of an event that triggered an alarm. The command is available in the category "System" and can be used in conjunction with an event to wake up the system from the screen saver mode. Pagina 11 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 1.10 Premium HMI Runtime license identification With Premium HMI Runtime 4.0.1154 you will be able to identify the type of the present license directly from the output window allowing a direct verification of the correspondence between license set in your project and purchased license. The same information is also displayed in the system log during startup of the Runtime, visible so even if no project loaded. 1.11 Premium HMI Runtime license extensions Premium HMI 4.0.1154 introduces several extensions to the functionalities of the different licenses. All the news are summarized and highlighted in the following table. For all the existing installations it will be enough to update the Runtime to benefit from the new features per each license type. Worthy of note are in particular the extension of the amount of IO bytes readable from the controllers and the number of programmable alarms. Pagina 12 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 In the context of the functions related to the alarms you can also send SMS notifications through an Internet gateway that receives an email and converts the message in text format; this is especially interesting for low cost HMI systems that can now use this notification modality without necessarily using a GSM modem with consequent increase in the cost. Very important about the Basic license for Win32 systems the extension introduced in order to better give to this license type a realistic role into the field of simple HMI based on Win32 x86 platforms when the cost is an important variable and it is not possible to adopt the cheaper hardware solutions. For the Basic Win32 license there are no more limits for using the VBA interfaces which have been made all available. The VBA script functions extend further with the introduction of new interfaces for interaction at Runtime with protocol configuration parameters such as the IP address of the stations that can change dynamically during the execution of the project. The following table summarizes the new license features. Feature IO bytes Alarms SMS Notification IMDB VBA for drivers Web clients VBA WinCE Basic WinCE ADV Win32 Basic Win32 PRO Win32 ADV 1024 1024 - 8192 4096 SMS via SMPP 2048 2048 - 2048 2048 - 4096 4096 SMS via SMPP Unlimited Archives on IMDB VBA Interface for drivers Full VBA interface Unlimited Archives on IMDB VBA Interface for drivers 4 web clients Full VBA interface Unlimited Archives on IMDB - Unlimited Archives on IMDB VBA Interface for drivers Full VBA interface Unlimited Archives on IMDB VBA Interface for drivers 2 web clients Full VBA interface Full VBA interface, Max 2 scripts 2 Communication protocols The Premium 4.0.1154 release contains a number of very important news concerning the communication protocols, vital elements for the optimal integration of each HMI application. The full changelog and details of all changes introduced in the communication protocols is available on the website and directly downloaded from this link. Here are some other important changes. 2.1 New communication drivers for Simatic TIA programmable systems We have introduced two new communication drivers for the complete support of the recent Simatic controllers programmable with Step7 TIA Portal. Pagina 13 di 14 Nota Tecnica Premium HMI 4.0.1154 TN0026 2.2 Ethernet S7 TIA Protocol S7 TIA Portal protocol supports importing symbols directly from the PLC project developed in the Step7 TIA Portal environment. No action is necessary or preparation; the only requirement for the importer is that the PLC project is developed in "compatible" or "optimized" mode, in other words with the assignment of the physical address of memory resources on the PLC. Simply point from the Premium HMI importer to the TIA project file and mnemonic from the PLC project will be extracted and made available for import into the Premium HMI project. 2.3 Ethernet S7 TIA PROFINET Protocol The S7 TIA PROFINET driver implements the native communications protocol used by S7-1200/1500 series controllers based on the use of symbolic addressing mode and it does no longer use the absolute memory address. The Protocol has an importer of symbols that automatically provides to extract from the PLC project all symbols defined allowing the creation of corresponding variables in Premium HMI. The availability of this Protocol actually aligns the ASEM HMI systems performance and capacity to the Siemens native systems resulting in unparalleled flexibility and ease of use. 3 Bug fix A detailed list of bug fixing activity made into Premium HMI 4.0.1154 is available through the reserved area of the corporate web site after identification. Premium HMI Setup is available for download from the website, in the dedicated area. For all technical support issues we kindly ask you to contact our technical support through the e-mail address [email protected]. Pagina 14 di 14