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Integrating projects

For SINUMERIK 840D Advanced projects, the Sinumerik840D component type is available in the Siemens/NC directory in octoplant.

The archive of the SINUMERIK control that was created with the Siemens HMI is integrated. It can contain the following data: The HMI, the NC data, loadable compile cycles, the PLC data and the Profibus drives.

Info

The file names of the files in the NC archive must not be longer than 49 characters and should not contain any special characters except "_" (underscore).

Component types can be customized in the AdminClient in the Component type editor module.

To integrate your project data into octoplant, proceed as follows:

  1. Create a new component in the UserClient with the component type mentioned above.
  2. Open the working directory of the component using the button or the context menu item Show in file manager (Ctrl+E).
  3. Move the desired project data into the working directory of the component.
  4. Check-In the component using the Create base version and Check-In button.
  5. You can now manage the project in octoplant.

If you do not have any project data, you can still create a component that can be used to create a job, to create a backup. You can then create a version of the project data from the backup that is created in this job on the server.

Proceed as follows:

  1. Create a new component in the UserClient with the component type mentioned above.
  2. Click on the Check-In without base version.
  3. Create a job for this component in the AdminClient and execute it.
  4. Open the UserClient and navigate to your component.
  5. In the Jobs tab, select the backup and click Copy backup to directory and copy the backup to the working directory.
  6. Create a new version of the component and check it in.

Integrating SINUMERIK controller data for disaster recovery and detailed comparison

For a later disaster recovery and for a detailed comparison, you should save additional data of the SINUMERIK controller from the ARC archive separately. Additional components are required for this.

  • Backup the data of the PCU ([Partition] :\DH directory) in a component type Binary.
  • Backup the CF card of the NCU e.g. with Drive Snapshot or Acronis and save it in a component type Binary.
  • Backup the file Basesys.ini of the NCU using SSH connection and save it in a component type WindowsINI.
  • If you have the S7 project for your SINUMERIK Controller, you can save the project in the existing SINUMERIK component or in a new component type SIMATIC S7. In the SINUMERIK component, you should create a separate subdirectory for the S7 project.