Send hardware status of AC800M and I/O and display in Panel 800

Hi all,

I have a compact setup with a redundant PM866 controllers, some I/O and a Panel 800 as HMI. For maintenance and diagnostic purposes I would like to display the hardware status of all the hardware units on the HMI, as there is no workplace connected to the controllers.

Obviously, the ErrorsAndWarnings and ExtendedStatus components of the HwStatus parameter would provide me the status. But what would be the most efficient and user friendly way of displaying this on the panel? I have tried creating and formatting strings in the application based on the bits that are active in the two abovementioned parameters. These are then sent to the panel using MMS access variables. But I find this to be unnecessarily complicated and processor intensive.

I am using Panel Builder to program the panel, but I am not too familiar with it.

Could you please suggest some better options?

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Ahsin Shafiq Rank: 1291

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Hello!

I'm not sure about compact version without workplaces, but I used PP865 panel like AE client in Control Network. It could be a very nice solution if you want just to send a text message when some event accures. In this case you just need to generate an event in accordance with the status and configure alarms in panel.

Good luck!

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by Ahsin Shafiq Rank: 1291 on 3/27/2015 1:49:43 AM | Like (0) | Report

Hi Alexander,

Thank you for your answer.

So this would be implemented something like this:

Connect error/status bit to PrintAlarm or PrintEvent so that it triggers upon an alarm, and send it on the network? How will the alarms and events be configured in the panel?

by Alexander Fedorov Rank: 129 on 3/27/2015 4:28:30 AM | Like (0) | Report

In common Control Builder M Professional I used AlarmCondBasic, for example. And in panel you can make settings for the driver in "peripherals->Controller 1 or Controller 2 -> choose ABB Control Network"

by Alexander Fedorov Rank: 129 on 4/9/2015 12:15:54 PM | Like (0) | Report

Hi there, how are you doing with this issue? Did you try MMS AE solution that I discribed?

by Ahsin Shafiq Rank: 1291 on 4/16/2015 6:38:54 AM | Like (0) | Report

Hi Alexander. Thanks for checking on me. Yes, I used your solution. I wrote this as a comment to 21290emp:

Every error condition in the ErrorsAndWarnings and ExtendedStatus component of the HwStatus variable triggers an AlarmCondBasic function block, in which I have configured appropriate messages, source names and condition names. When this block is triggered it generates an alarm in the network. This is picked up in the panel and displayed there in an alarm list with some extent of alarm management.

Thanks for the help!!

by Alexander Fedorov Rank: 129 on 4/16/2015 6:54:58 AM | Like (0) | Report

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Alexander Fedorov Rank: 129

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hi,

We don't have other option other than sending the hardware status "Dint" variable through MMS and decoding at PP.

Cheers.

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srao2010 Rank: 131

Answered 4 years ago

Hello,

I have created a dint variable and allocate it in 'Hwstatus' on hardware module in our tree.

And then using Integer variable other side, made attempt to read that above variable. It provided me values as 0 or 1 or 2, which indicates warning/ OK/ faulty .

But in doubt, it will work in your case or not ?

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21290emp Rank: 91

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