Product specifications

Section 2 Configuration Control Hardware Units
3BDS011222-510 B 71
For more information on working with Function Diagrams, refer to System 800xA
Engineering, Engineering Studio Function Designer Getting Started
(3BDS100968*) and System 800xA Engineering, Engineering Studio, Function
Designer (3BDS011224*).
Detailed Difference Report
Difference report provides the differences between Function Diagrams in the system
and Diagrams present in the .afw file to be imported. If there are any modifications
between the Function Diagrams, the difference report provides a report for the
Function aspect indicating the additions, deletions, or modifications between the
Function Diagrams. For more details, refer to System 800xA, Maintenance
(3BSE046784*).
Control Hardware Units
You add the needed hardware units, typically the I/O boards, to your control project
with the following principle steps. The steps assume use of Bulk Data Management
worksheets. For low quantities you also can do this object by object in Plant
Explorer or in Project Explorer of Control Builder M Professional, as already
described in Create Hardware Units on page 38. The steps correspond to the
workflow steps Build Lower Level Control Structure, (Assign I/O Signals) and
Allocate I/O Signals to Boards in Control Structure of Table 1:
1. Configure a Bulk Data Management workbook/worksheet for instantiation
(and, if needed for basic parametrization) of the hardware unit object types of
the standard hardware libraries into Control Structure.
2. Make sure that you have inserted the required hardware libraries into your
project and that you have connected them to the target controllers. See Insert
Hardware Libraries on page 35 and Connect Hardware Libraries to Controller
on page 37.
3. Create and parametrize the hardware unit objects in Control Structure using
your Bulk Data Management worksheet.
4. Allocate bulks of I/O Signals (for example Signal objects created and /or
parameterized with Bulk Data Manager and assigned to process objects) to
channels of hardware units (boards) with the smart I/O Allocation function
available using the IO Allocation icon from the tool bar.