I want to connect siemen simatic 5 95U via Sinec L2 port to PC Running RSView 32.I never use Sinec L2 before, and i wonder that this scheme is will work. Do i need another device or any card to my PC. And what is the best OPC / DDE server to link the PLC with RSView 32.
Can anybody help me?

Thanks

Sidik S.

 

SST (www.mySST.com) has a couple of PC interface cards that allow a PC to be an L2 master or emulate/monitor multiple ET200 passive stations. These cards come bundled with a variety of
diagnostic software and OPC servers. Check out the following link:

http://www.mysst.com/cards/profibus/pfb.asp

Andy Piereder
Pinnacle IDC

 

Look on this site:
http://www3.ad.siemens.de/ca01cache/en_9300181_z_tab0_NS.htm

First item are the communication board.
6GK1561-3AA00 SIMATIC NET, CP 5613, PCI CARD FOR CONNECTION W. PROFIBUS-DP,
WITH WINDOWS NT 4.0 DRIVER, DP-RAM INTERFACE FOR DP-MASTER AND CONFIGURING
SOFTWARE
Second item OPC driver software;
6GK1706-5DB21-3AA0 SIMATIC NET, DP-OPC-SERVER/ WINDOWS NT 4.0 / VERSION 2.1
SOFTWARE FOR CONNECTING OPC WITH DP PROTOCOL, CD-ROM "11/1999", GER/EN

After installing the board and the software driver and the softkey, you will see that RSview detect the Siemens OPC software link.

Good luck. Gerard Leemkuil

 

Hello Mister Sidik,

I do not know the RSView 32. But i can tell you, that we had a lot of problems when we started connecting S5 95U to a PC-based SCADA system
(T.I.R.S. 32 by ASP in germany www.ASP-gmbh.de) via L2-Bus.

There are 2 models of the S5 95U with L2-Bus, one type is a L2-Bus Slave (Connector is named L2-DP) the other is using an other protocol (TF or FMS).

The best way is to talk to the SCADA people and to Siemens (selecting a PC-Card). We used a PC-Card by Comsoft (a german company, that also knew
a lot about the protocols and functions of the S5 95U).

I hope I could help you

Greetings from germany

Helmut Meissner

 

Hi,

You can use the Profibus interface from Trebing & Himstedt, I think they have a new OPC driver for his interface. We used his interface with 95U and 115U Simatic, and a "in house" driver.

Trebing & Himstedt
ProzeBautomation
Hagenower StraBe 73
D-19061 Schwerin
Phone +49 385 6344-127
Fax +49 385 6344-180

Cesar Garcia
Cerveceria Polar de Oriente C.A.
Venezuela