MRPD Yes; Requirement: IRT
– PROFIenergy Yes
– Prioritized startup Yes; Max. 32 PROFINET devices
– Number of connectable IO Devices,
max.
128; In total, up to 512 distributed I/O devices can
be connected via AS-i, PROFIBUS or PROFINETThe minimum value of the update time also depends
on communication share set for
PROFINET IO, on the number of IO devices, and
on the quantity of configured user data
SIMATIC communication
• S7 communication, as server Yes
• S7 communication, as client Yes
• User data per job, max. See online help (S7 communication, user data
size)Yes
• OPC UA Server Yes; Data access (read, write, subscribe), method
call, custom address space
– Application authentication Yes
– Security policies Available security policies: None,
Basic128Rsa15, Basic256Rsa15,
Basic256Sha256
– User authentication "anonymous" or by user name & password
Further protocols
• MODBUS Yes; MODBUS TCP
Media redundancy
• Switchover time on line break, typ. 200 ms; For MRP, bumpless for MRPD
• Number of stations in the ring, max. 50
Isochronous mode
Isochronous operation (application synchronized
up to terminal)
Yes; With minimum OB 6x cycle of 625 µs
Equidistance YesNumber of login stations for message functions,
max.
32
Program alarms Yes
Number of configurable program alarms 5 000
Number of simultaneously active program
alarms
• Number of program alarms 300
• Number of alarms for system diagnostics 100
• Number of alarms for motion technology
objects
80
Test commissioning functions
Joint commission (Team Engineering) Yes; Parallel online access possible for up to 5
engineering systems
Status block Yes; Up to 8 simultaneously (in total across all
ES clients)
Single step No
Number of breakpoints 8
Status/control
• Status/control variable Yes
• Variables Inputs/outputs, memory bits, DBs, distributed
I/Os, timers, counters
• Number of variables, max.
– of which status variables, max. 200; per job
– of which control variables, max. 200; per job
Forcing
• Forcing, variables Peripheral inputs/outputs
• Number of variables, max. 200
Diagnostic buffer
• present Yes
• Number of entries, max. 1 000

of which powerfail-proof 500
Traces
• Number of configurable Traces 4; Up to 512 KB of data per trace are possible
Interrupts/diagnostics/status information
Alarms
• Diagnostic alarm Yes
• Hardware interrupt YeYes; Note: The number of axes affects the cycle
time of the PLC program; selection guide via the
TIA Selection Tool or SIZER
• Number of available Motion Control resources
for technology objects (except cam
disks)
800
• Required Motion Control resources
– per speed-controlled axis 40
– per positioning axis 80
– per synchronous axis 160
– per external encoder 80
– per output cam 20
– per cam track 160
– per probe 40
• Positioning axis
– Number of positioning axes at motion
control cycle of 4 ms (typical value)
5
– Number of positioning axes at motion
control cycle of 8 ms (typical value)
10
Controller
• PID_Compact Yes; Universal PID controller with integrated
optimization• Continuous counting Yes
• Counter response parameterizable Yes
• Hardware gate via digital input Yes
• Software gate Yes
• Event-controlled stop Yes
• Synchronization via digital input Yes
• Counting range, parameterizable Yes
Comparator
– Number of comparators 2; per count channel; see manual for details
– Direction dependency Yes
– Can be changed from user program Yes
Position detection
• Incremental acquisition Yes
• Suitable for Motion Control Yes
Measuring functions
• Measuring time, parameterizable