profibus - repeater for seimens

[powerjunx]

hi,

we are planning to have a centralized monitoring of our machines. it is compose mainly of a siemens 632 HMI's.

we found out, a 632 HMI's is connected to a repeater - will be used as a dropline and a profibus dp as a trunkline connected to our main PC.

my question:
1. ] does seimens product manual will provide some programming samples to configure the networking? if not,
2. ] can anybody willing to help me this plan that i had, such as programming and network configuration?
3. } does anyone had done this networking? hows the system in the long run?


thanks in advance!!

 

[djs]

Hello;
Try

http://www.profibus.org

 

[Electromechanical30]

You should be able to find the basic information that you need on the tech doc's associated with your HMI package and the Profibus card on the PC. I know that the PC's card does contain SST utilities for network troubleshooting.

We use Profibus in almost all of our control networks.