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Diagnostics integrated in Modicon
™
M340
™
, Premium
™
and Quantum
™
automation platforms
Introduction
Diagnostics offer for Modicon M340, Premium and Quantum platforms is based on
the following three components:
System diagnostics b
DFB and EFB diagnostic function blocks (for system and application diagnostics) b
Error message display system, called viewers, supplied as a standard component b
of Magelis XBT terminals, Vijeo Citect supervisory software and Unity Pro setup
software
System diagnostics
The system diagnostics for Modicon M340, Premium and Quantum platforms support
the monitoring of system bits/words, I/O modules and SFC minimum and maximum
step activity times. By simply choosing the relevant option during application
conguration, any event will generate time-stamped messages logged in the
diagnostic buffer of the PLC.
These events are displayed automatically in a diagnostics viewer
(1) without requiring
any additional programming.
With Unity Pro integrated diagnostics, this function can be used to perform rst level
diagnostics of the elements in the conguration, up to and including each I/O module
channel.
Conguration level
Viewer window (example with Unity Pro software)
Module level
Channel level
(1) Diagnostics viewers are tools for displaying and acknowledging diagnostic error messages.
They are supplied as a standard component of Unity Pro and Vijeo Designer software, with
Magelis terminals and with the PLC Web server that can be accessed via a thin client
Magelis iPC.
Processor
for system
bits and
words
In-rack I/O
modules
Remote I/O
modules on
FIPIO
™
or
CANopen
™
Higher-level
MES
Cell level
Machine level
Unity
™
Pro
Diagnostics viewersSystem diagnostics
Application diagnostics
Ethernet TCP/IP
Magelis
™
XBT
PC
Vijeo
™
Citect
™
Thin client Magelis iPC
Quantum
™
,
Premium
™
,
Modicon
™
M340
™
Vijeo
™
Designer
™
Modicon
™
Quantum
™
Ethernet I/O
automation platform
Unity
™
Pro software
Small / Medium / Large / Extra Large / XLS
Integrated diagnostics
Functions (continued)