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Enable Access to a S7 master device

The S7adapter application is acting as a IO-Supervisor for Profinet devices.

Hardware setup

Connect the machine network interface of the SINUMERIK EDGE to an ethernet or profinet port of your S7 device. During onboarding of the EDGE in the Insights Hub, make sure that the ip address of the EDGE's production interface (machinelan0) does not collide with other hardware connected to the system.

Software installation

Install the S7adapter application on your SINUMERIK EDGE instance. Configure the Address of the S7 device, by configuring the S7adapter application.

In the S7adapter configuration, you will find a provided datasource of type "S7Device". Use the "meta" object to configure the IP address, Rack and Slot of the S7 device. Review the hardware configuration of the machine in your engineering tool (TIA portal) to find this information.

Hint

It is recommended to rename the datasourceID to some understandable name. "PLC_1" is just a placeholder.

example 

"datasourceConfig": {
    "providedDatasource": [
      {
        "datasourceId": "PLC_1",
        "type": "S7Device",
        "meta": {
          "ipAddress": "192.168.214.1",
          "rack": 0,
          "slot": 2
        }
      }
    ]
}

Supported devices

Any device acting as a certified Profinet/Profibus master and supporting absolute parameter access over S7 protocol communication can be connected.

Official supported

  • SIMATIC S7 300 CPU

Most likely functioning (but not part of the test)

  • SIMATIC S7 400 CPU
  • WinAC CPU
  • SIMATIC S7 1200 (in 300/400 compatibility mode)
  • SIMATIC S7 1500 (in 300/400 compatibility mode)
  • SINAMICS Drives CPU (G120)

Attention

S7adapter application is only tested with SIMATIC S7 300 CPU.

Security information

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