Can OPC inputs make an alarm in 800xA

800xA 5.1......OPC inputs from a Siemens S200 Safety PLC.

Is it possible to make an alarm on these inputs or do I have to property transfer them to the PLC and trigg an alarm here.

There is an Alarm Event Configuration aspect on each boolean input in the PLC Connect folder but every time I try to change anything I get a popup saying "ActiveX component can't create object". But apart from that it looks as if it could be used to create an alarm.

Any help appreciated.

Thank

Søren

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lundhamselv Rank: 701

Asked 5 years ago

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Not sure about the ActiveX component missing for OPC AE, but this suggests you are missing something possibly associated with the AE OPC server from the 3rd party.

Yes you can set Alarm properties within PLC on each Item. That is the PV if above 80% could set a High Alarm. This does not require the use of AE OPC server, but alarm time stamping and generation is handled by 800xA and not the source (PLC).

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Ingo

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Answered 5 years ago

yes , it is possible to generate alarm using PLC Connect Alarm and Event Configuration aspect. It works good. Regarding Active x message , it seems somthing is not installed properly or extension not loaded properly. Reinstall the Softpoint server/PLC connect products onceagain and check it.Pls try with appropirte user account while modifying the aspect.

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Vijayan Rank: 70

Answered 5 years ago

On every object you can add a aspect "Alarm Expression" there you may define Events or Alarms depending on input values. In your case the value will come from the Control Connection something like "$ControlConnection.InputValue". Unfortunaly you can not browse that expression.