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Tools and configuration
Drive ES engineering software
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Overview
Drive ES is the engineering system used to integrate the
communication, configuration and data management functions
of Siemens drive technology into the SIMATIC automation world
easily, efficiently and cost-effectively.
Various software packages are available for selection:
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Drive ES Basic (phase-out product)
•
Drive ES Basic Maintenance (available soon)
•
Drive ES PCS 7
Drive ES (
D
rive
E
ngineering
S
oftware) fully integrates drives
from Siemens into the world of Totally Integrated Automation.
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Design
Various software packages are available for selection:
•
Drive ES Basic
(phase-out product)
•
Drive ES Basic Maintenance
(available soon)
•
Drive ES PCS 7
(APL Style or Classic Style)
Drive ES Basic (phase-out product)
Drive ES Basic is for first-time users of the world of Totally Inte-
grated Automation and the basic software for setting the param-
eters of all drives online and offline in this environment. Drive ES
Basic enables both the automation system and the drives to be
handled using the SIMATIC Manager software. Drive ES Basic is
the starting point for common data archiving for complete pro-
jects and for extending the use of the SIMATIC teleservice to
drives. Drive ES Basic provides the configuration tools for the
new Motion Control functions – slave-to-slave communication,
equidistance and isochronous operation with PROFIBUS DP
and ensures that drives with PROFINET IO are simply integrated
into the SIMATIC environment.
Note:
For SINAMICS and MICROMASTER 4 drives, this TIA functional-
ity is provided with the STARTER commissioning tool (V4.3.2 and
higher).
Drive ES Basic Maintenance (available soon)
This software product will ensure TIA functionality for the previ-
ous drive systems not supported by STARTER. Drive ES Basic
Maintenance will thus replace the current product Drive ES
Basic.
Drive ES PCS 7 (APL Style or Classic Style)
Drive ES PCS 7 links the drives with a PROFIBUS DP interface
into the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system, and it requires
that SIMATIC PCS 7, V6.1 and higher has first been installed.
Drive ES PCS 7 provides a block library with the drives and the
corresponding faceplates for the operator station, which
enables the drives to be operated from the PCS 7 process con-
trol system. From V6.1 and higher, drives will also be able to be
represented in the PCS 7 Maintenance Station.
From Drive ES PCS 7 V8.0 and higher, two versions of the library
are available: The APL (Advanced Process Library) variant and
the previous version in the so-called Classic Style.
Detailed contents of the Drive ES PCS 7
(APL Style or Classic Style)
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Block library for SIMATIC PCS 7
Faceplates and control
blocks for SIMOVERT
MASTERDRIVES VC and MC, as well as
MICROMASTER/MIDIMASTER of the third and fourth gener-
ation and SIMOREG DC MASTER and SINAMICS
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STEP
7 slave object manager
for convenient configuration of
drives and non-cyclic PROFIBUS DP communication with the
drives
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STEP 7 device object manager
for easy configuration of
drives with PROFINET-IO interfaces (V8.0 SP1 and higher)
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SETUP program
for installing the software in the PCS 7
environment
Configuration / Commissioning
SIMATIC Programs
G_D211_EN_00275b
Drive ES Basic
Drive ES PCS 7
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