The S7-Xplorer interface is suitable for acquiring measured data via TCP/IP using the standard network interface cards as well as using the PPI, MPI, PROFIBUS, TCP/IP and ISO transport logs via SIMATIC NET interface cards. Access is transparent for the controller. Separate engineering and programming of the control is not necessary.
You can select the signals to be measured either with the absolute operand address or with the symbolic name with support of the ibaPDA address book browser. This browser allows to access to all defined symbols of the attached STEP 7 project.
When using the SIMATIC CFC editor (version V 6.0 or higher) on the same computer, you can configure the signals that are to be measured and the connectors from the control program via drag & drop.
Using an additional interface converter, you can also acquire measured data from a SIMATIC S5 controller via its AS511 interface (see Module S5 (LAN adapter)).
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