6 Data acquisition 6.1 Data acquisition with Simatic WinCC

Excel file after adding the functions in column 4, 5 and 6.
You can also use WinCC report system to do this job, but it is not flexible enough for research plants.
6.2 Data acquisition with the recipe system
Recipe data will be filed during a recipe in the table data in the recipe workbook recipe.xls. After the
recipe they will be filed with the name of the experiment and run in the path
„C:\Siemens\Step7\S7proj\P375\Rezeptsteuerung\\Data“.
Where is the name of the operator. The path shown above must exist. It will not be
created automatically.
It is necessary that the name of each data file is unique. The system does not allow to start the recipe
before it has a unique number.
To create the file name, the system uses project, experiment and run number. These 3 numbers,
separated with underlines “_”, will form the file name.
If you want to do data acquisition during the recipe, you will have to chose the data acquisition active
click box.
The following settings can be changed in the data table of the recipe.xls workbook:
Headlines in the „Data“-worksheet.
Diagram names can be changed in row 2 beginning from column 4. The colors are used to combine
variables with diagrams. All variable names in row 300 which have the same background color as the
one in row 2 with the Diagram name, are shown in this diagram.
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