Chapter 12: Managing Navigation and Alarms
This chapter focuses on how to create navigation between pages in TIA Portal's Unified HMI environment and how to create an alarm management system between the HMI and PLC.
Navigation is important in the HMI, and it is something that an end user interacts with often. There are different styles and approaches to navigation. Alarming is also important as that's how an end user is notified of potential issues. Methods for alarming can also be achieved in many different ways.
In this chapter, the following topics will be explored:
- HMI navigation
- HMI alarm controls
- Alarm tags – accepting and resetting
- PLC-driven alarming
HMI navigation
In order to change pages on the HMI so that more than one page of information ...
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