PLC and HMI Development with Siemens TIA Portal: Develop PLC and HMI Programs Using Standard Methods and Structured Approaches with TIA Portal V17

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Table of Contents
Section 1 – The TIA Portal – Project Environment
Chapter 1: Starting a New Project with TIA Portal
	Windows and panes – layout of the development environment
		Portal view – windows and panes
		Project view – windows and panes
	Getting started with a new project in the Project view
		Starting a new project
		Changes to the project tree
		Adding devices
		Configuration of devices
	The Reference and Details views – tools to aid development
		Reference projects
		Details view
		Overview view mode
	Instructions and libraries
		Instructions
		Libraries
		Project library
		Global library
	Online testing environment
		CPU operator panel
		Call environment
		Breakpoints
		Call hierarchy
	Summary
Chapter 2: Creating Objects and How They Fit Together
	Creating a project\'s structure
		Data management
	Hierarchy in TIA Portal
		Call structure
		Dependency structure
		Parent/child relationships
	Instance and global data
		Using instance and global data
		Accessing data
		Configuration options
	Interfaces and the effects on running PLCs
		Optimized data/non-optimized data
		Mixing optimized and non-optimized data
		Passing data through interfaces
	Summary
Chapter 3: Structures and User-Defined Types
	What are structs and UDTs?
		Structs
		UDTs
	Creating struct/UDTs – best practices
		Understanding what is required
		Defining structure variables
		Finding commonalities between assets
		Naming conventions
	Simplifying interfaces with structs/UDTs
		Passing inputs as a single struct
		Passing outputs as a single struct
		Passing InOut data as a single struct
		Structures in static and temporary memory
		Creating static declarations of UDTs or structs
		Creating temporary instances of UDTs or structs
	Drawbacks of structs and UDTs
		Libraries
		Lack of open protocol support
		Cross-referencing
		Overusing UDTs/structs
	Summary
Section 2 – TIA Portal – Languages, Structures, and Configurations
Chapter 4: PLC Programming and Languages
	Getting started with languages
		Available languages
		Languages in program blocks
		Different language types
	Selecting the best language
		Understanding the use case
		Memory management
	Differences between Siemens and other PLCs
		Timers
		Valid networks in ladder logic
		GRAPH is not SFC
		Bit access in the byte, Word, and Dword variables
	Summary
Chapter 5: Working with Languages in TIA Portal
	The control scenario
		Control overview
		Using the HMI
	Languages used in TIA Portal
		Ladder logic
		Function Block Diagram
		Structured Control Language
		GRAPH
		Cause and effect matrix
	Summary
Chapter 6: Creating Standard Control Objects
	Planning standard interfaces
		Defining variables in an interface
		Large variables in the interface
		Planning standard control interfaces
	Creating control data
		Improving control data accessibility with UDTs
		Example
	Creating HMI data
		Setpoints/parameters
	Structuring logic
		General layout
		Supportive methods
	Considerations that have an impact on usability
		How flexible does the control object need to be?
		How likely is it that the control object will need to be modified?
		What does the control object interact with?
	Summary
Chapter 7: Simulating Signals in the PLC
	Running PLC/HMI in simulate mode
		Starting a PLC simulation
	Managing simulated inputs
		Using watch tables to change inputs
		Using an input mapping layer to change inputs
	Creating a simulation interface
	Safeguarding outputs when in simulation mode
	Summary
Chapter 8: Options to Consider When Creating PLC Blocks
	Extending standard functions
	Extending standard data
	Managing data through instance parameters
		Principle to this approach
		TIA Portal example
	Asynchronous data access considerations
		The correct method
	Summary
Section 3 – TIA Portal – HMI Development
Chapter 9: TIA Portal HMI Development Environment
	TIA Portal Comfort Panel
	Adding an HMI to a project
	HMI development environment overview
		Runtime settings
		Screens
	Screen objects
	Special objects
		Elements
		Controls
		Graphics and Dynamic widgets
	Summary
Chapter 10: Placing Objects, Setting Properties, and Events
Chpater 11: Structures and HMI Faceplates
	What are faceplates?
		TIA Portal V17 faceplates
	Creating a faceplate
		Available objects and controls
	Creating interfaces
		Tag interface
		Property interface
	Creating and handling events in faceplates
		Accessing tags
	Summary
Chapter 12: Managing Navigation and Alarms
	HMI navigation
		Managing page changes
	HMI alarm controls
		Configuration of HMI alarms
		The configuration of classes
		Configuration of alarm controls
		Setting filters on alarm controls
	Alarm tags
	PLC-driven alarming
		Supervision categories
		Types of supervision
		Alarm texts
		Setting global alarm class colors
	Summary
Section 4 – TIA Portal – Deployment and Best Practices
Chapter 13: Downloading to the PLC
	Downloading to a PLC
		Initiating a download
		Setting load actions
		Downloads requiring the PLC to be stopped
	Retaining data in optimized and non-optimized blocks
		Retaining data in instance data
		Downloads without reinitialization
		Snapshots
	Uploading from a PLC
	Considerations
		Data segregation
		Using functions
	Summary
Chapter 14: Downloading to the HMI
	Connection parameters
		Creating connections
		Devices and networks
	Downloading to an HMI
	Simulating a unified HMI
		Accessing a unified HMI simulation
	Security considerations
	Summary
Chapter 15: Programming Tips and Additional Support
	Simplifying logic tips
		Delay timers
		AT constructor
		IF statements
		Serializing
		Refactoring
		Consolidating blocks
	Sequences – best practices
		Using constants instead of numerical values
		Managed transitions
		Managing output requests
	Naming conventions and commenting
		Comments in SCL
	Additional Siemens support
		Using TIA Portal\'s help system
		Siemens forum
		Siemens documentation archive
	Further support – Liam Bee
	Summary
Index