Working with the Hardware Configuration Tab
Offline programming of a Hardware Layout Configuration is made in the Controller Template Library.
Configuration Area
In the configuration area, you can either create a layout from scratch or update the existing layout extracted from your controller.
Extract | Updates the hardware layout configuration according to the hardware connected to the controller. |
Zoom in | Zooms in on the layout. (Ctrl + mouse wheel forward) |
Zoom out | Zooms out on the layout. (Ctrl + mouse wheel backward) |
Fit to screen | Reverts the layout back to a default size. |
Delete | Deletes the selected item. |
Tool box
The toolbox contains all valid products for the controller version.
Creating Hardware Layout
A new installation of a PF6 System does not have any hardware layout.
To create a hardware layout, always start with a carrier (3-slot or 6-slot) from Tool Box. For the sequence of the channel number, it is recommended to use 6-slot carriers first. For any system with more than two FlexCarriers, start hardware configuration with a 6-slot FlexCarrier.
Drag FlexCarrier to the Drop here area and drop it. Indicators are displayed. You can point to a symbol to get a tooltip .
Drag other products from Tool Box to a target place. When pointing to a target place with a product, the target place will change color:
Red: invalid drop
Blue: valid drop
You can move, copy and remove a single product or a carrier with all its products.
To move, click and drag the product.
To copy, press Ctrl and drag the product.
To delete, choose the product and press Delete. The FlexCarrier containing the FlexController can only be deleted when it is the single remaining carrier.
Extracting a hardware layout configuration
If the Hardware Layout Configuration is empty, a current controller setup can be extracted by using the Extract button.
Select Extract, the Extract Hardware Configuration dialog box opens.
Select OK to extract the current configuration.
After extracting, push the changes to the controller in order to receive status and health. The hardware deployment status will change after validation.
Status
When the controller is connected and online, and the hardware layout configuration is in sync with the controller, ToolsTalk 2 will start to receive notifications of changes in the hardware deployment status. Once notified, ToolsTalk 2 will ask the controller for the Hardware measurement data.
To see detailed deployment status and measurement data:
Select the product in the configuration area. Multiple products can be selected by pressing Ctrl and select.
Click on the Status bar to expand the window.
Tips:
The height of panel can be increased by dragging the top border.
To get the latest measurement data, click Refresh.
The details of Health status can be expanded. Select Show only NOK to only view the data with NOK result.
Tool configuration
For each tool, it is possible to select a tool configuration from a list containing all available tool configurations. By default, no mapping of Tool Configuration is made. It is possible to run tools that are not mapped to a tool configuration. In this case, the controller will use an internally created default Tool Configuration without any of the dual transducer functionality enabled.
Inhibit mode
If there is something wrong with the channel (Drive or tool), inhibit mode can be set to continue using your hardware:
False: Channel is running OK.
Report OK: Channel is disabled and reports OK in result.
Report NOK: Channel is disabled and reports NOK in result.
Report No Result: Channel is disabled and do not show up in the result.
Carrier
There are two types of carriers:
3-slot
6-slot
You can have maximum 11 carriers in your configuration. The carrier with controller is always the first carrier. All the carriers need to be dropped after the first carrier.
Controller
The controller can only be added to the first slot of the first carrier. It is not possible to add the Controller product to any other slots in the system.
Drive
The drive can be placed in all free slots except the first carrier’s first slot or slot with channel number 65. See section on channel numbering for further information.
You can have maximum 64 drives in your configuration.
Blank
The blank can be placed in all free slots except the first slot of any carrier.
Fan
The fan product can only be dropped at the top of a carrier. A 3-carrier has one fan module and a 6-carrier has two fan modules.
E-Stop
There are three different types of E-Stop:
E-Stop ASM
E-Stop Entry
E-Stop ByPass
The first two E-Stops can only be dropped in the configuration’s first carrier. All other carriers can only have an E-Stop ByPass.
Tool
The Flex system can only add QST tools. The tool can only be dropped on a Drive that does not have a tool connected.
Symbols
Symbols indicate status of each product. You can always point to each indicator to get a tooltip.
| Warning |
| Not expected |
| OK |
| Empty |
| Wrong type |
| Missing |
