WinCC OA is a SCADA development platform created by Siemens. It took me a little while to get comfortable with the different properties when building panels on my first project, so I am attempting to give an overview of the different types of propert...
Welcome back to “Getting Started with WinCC OA”! If you aren’t familiar with the series’ previous topics, it’s recommended that you read the respective installments before proceeding: Part 1: Creating and Opening a...
Have you ever been trying to change the color properties (ex. background color) of an object in WinCC 7, and it just won’t budge? Are you already familiar with the global color scheme property and constantly find yourself turning it off? Are yo...
In a recent project, I found myself having to create standard devices for Wonderware ArchestrA Objects. This particular application used Wonderware InTouch Modern 17.1. In a previous blog Rockwell FactoryTalk Studio Basics: Global Obj...
Siemens’ TIA Openness is an API that allows you to interact with TIA Portal using a custom application. Although it is included with TIA Portal, Openness has not seen wide usage, as many programmers don’t see the use of learning a new pro...
I recently worked on a project using a GE PACsystems Rx3i PLC and a QuickPanel+ HMI. Throughout the course of the project, we learned some tricks to alarm handling in GE Proficy that I'd like to pass along. I'll first walk you through so...
If you're interested in storing production, sensor, or other data from your automation system, Panasonic GT series HMIs provide a flexible method for logging data from one or multiple PLCs to any standard SD card. Logs are stored in CSV file...
Thanks to TIA Portals development environment, laying out and linking a few objects on an HMI screen doesn’t take very much time. Though, this process starts to become tedious when there are many objects with many individual tag connections for...
“OA is a beast of a program.” One of my fellow DMC engineers made this remark when I began learning how to program using SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture (OA for short). Indeed, for someone just getting started with OA, the SCADA software ...