- Installation
- Creating a project
- Creating a device
- Creating a screen
- Screen Items
- Connections
- Tags
- Connect tags to screen items
- Scripting
- OPC UA Server
- Load a project into runtime
- Alarms
- Logs
- Trends
- TIA Portal guidelines
- How to use WinCC Unified Runtime Manager
- Trace Settings
Download the app "WinCC Unified Runtime for Industrial Edge" from the Industrial Edge HUB into your Industrial Edge Management. The application should now be available in the IEM catalog.
- Login on the IEM where you control your IED
- Go to the catalog
- Open the app "WinCC Unified Runtime" and install it on your IED
- Login to the IED where you installed the apps
- Click on the app icon of "WinCC Unified Runtime" to open this app
Download the Hardware Support Package from SIOS* and install the HSP following the next steps:
- Open TIA Portal in your Engineering station.
- Go to Options -> Support packages.
- Select Add from file system and click install.
- Restart TIA Portal after the installation.
*Note that the HSP is only available via intranet-view due to Limited Sales Release
Once you are in the TIA Portal you can click on Project -> New to start a new engineering project:
Now you will a popup asking for the Project Name and folder where you want to store your created project where you can click Create and start working on it:
Clicking on a created project will lead you to the following screen. On the left bar there will be available a tree with all the devices created. Click on the Add new device button to create a new one.
WinCC Unified Runtime for Industrial Edge can be found in TIA – Hardware catalog under SIMATIC HMI applications
Once we have created a device, its properties are shown when it is accessed:
In the left side menu, click on Screens and then click on Add new screen button to add a new one:
Now the created screen will appear under Screens and, since it is the first screen created, the screen will be set as the Start Screen:
Once the screen is created and opened, items can be created by drag and drop from the toolbox:
Place the item in the screen area and when it is created you will see all the properties of the item:
To create a connection between the Industrial Edge device and a PLC, an Ethernet communication module is required to be added to the device:
Connect the ports from the PLC to the added communication module in the Network view and in the Connection view:
There are different ways to create tags in our WinCC Unified project for Industrial Edge.
When we establish a connection to a PLC, we can drag and drop a tag from the PLC to the HMI Tags:
Also internal tags can be manually created in a HMI Tag Table and connection type must be set to Internal Tag:
Once the tags are created, they can be connected to the screen items. Insert a screen item:
In properties go to three dots of the dynamization rectangle and select Tag:
Select 'Tag...' and then choose a tag that you want to connect:
Repeat the process for any screen item that you want to connect. You can easily Drag & Drop a tag into your screen to create automatically an IO-field with connected HMI tag:
To operate as an OPC UA server go to the 'Runtime settings' in the left side menu and click on the opc ua server checkbox. If you check below, you can see the port which will be used to access the OPC UA Server, this needs to be changed to the port 34002.
To load the project in runtime on the Edge Device, you just need to configure its IP adress on the device configuration:
In case there is no online connection established to the IED, you have the chance to create an offline runtime project in TIA Portal by drag and drop to the card reader:
Then, in WinCC Unified Runtime on IE you can upload the file that was downloaded by clicking on the 'Upload' button:
An offline download to the IE Device is also possible via the IEM. Open the IEM, go to My Installed Apps and select WinCC Unified Runtime
Once the app's tab is open, click on the Update configuration button. Then, add the file in the + button within offline_download. After the file is loaded, click on Update Now
The alarms are created at the desired trigger tag - in this case at an internal tag. We can create two different types: analog and discrete alarms. The alarm type depends on the selected tag data type. For this example we are creating both.
For the analog alarms, an 'Int' tag is created:
On the bottom menu, tab 'Analog alarms', we create all the alarms we need with it's conditions:
For the discrete alarms, the creation is made in the same way, but the data type must be 'Word'. On the bottom menu, tab 'Analog alarms', the alarms are created:
In this example, we are creating another screen with alarm control screen item and some different buttons to trigger different alarms:
When the runtime is active and the alarms are raised, they will appear in the alarm control:
The logs can be created for each tag - in this case at an internal tag. We can choose two different logging modes: 'Cyclic' and 'On change'.
Create a logging with 'Cyclic' mode. On the bottom menu, tab 'Logging tags', the logging is created.
Create a logging with 'On change' mode:
Finally the logs are shown in the runtime:
To add a trend go to the Toolbox, select trend control and drag and drop into the screen:
In its properties to add different trends to appear in the item, go to Trends and select the tag/logging tag you want to control::
In the runtime the trend will be filled:
In case you need more information related to the engineering of the project in TIA Portal, you can refer to the following documentation. In addition, there is an available guideline for efficient engineering in SIOS.
To start the runtime go to the Wincc Runtime app:
You will see a login page, where you can login with the credentials downloaded within the project. At least one user with administration rights is required to access the Web Runtime Manager.
Note: Default user: uoeuser, Default password: User@uoe. Please, keep in mind that this credentials will be overwritten once a TIA Portal project is downloaded with UMC-users.
If you want to add a user to change the access rights or any other reason, you can do it in the TIA Project:
If the project downloaded is running you will see a green light that indicates that the runtime is ready:
Click on the WinCC Unified Runtime button:
And the Start Screen that is indicated in the project will appear:
To stop the runtime, select Stop Project in the WinCC Unified Web Runtime Manager:
Wait until the runtime status is on not started, and in the WinCC Runtime app a red light will be now on the project:
To prevent unauthorized runtime access, activate the secure download option in the TIA Project as well as the WinCC Unified Runtime Manager.
TIA Portal:
WinCC Unified Runtime Manager:
Enabling AutoScale option adapts screen automatically on window size of client / web browser. Screens designed on a certain device with is displayed on another device with different window size maintaining consistency.
Upload media files via the Web Runtime Manager to your Unified application and display them via Web Control or Media Control.
To enable Logging Service from the WinCC Unified Runtime app go to the configuration and enable the following settings. Also you can download each trace separately .csv file clicking in the Download Logs at the top right corner:
You can also activate the trace forwarder and receive the traces with Trace Viewer foe analyzing the app:
- Trace Viewer is installed by WinCC Unified (Tia Portal)
- Activate the 'Receiver' mode via the following command on remote host:
C:\ProgramFiles\Siemens\Automation\WinCCUnified\bin\RTILtraceTool.exe -mode receiver -tcp -host <IP of Edgebox> -port 35000
