● A project has been copied to the PDM computer.
● Device descriptions have been deleted on the computer.
● A computer has been reinstalled and the device descriptions were not integrated.
Requirement
SIMATIC PDM is installed.
Procedure
1. Open the process devices plant view in SIMATIC Manager.
2. Open the "Devices" folder in the tree view.
3. Check whether devices are there that are labeled as follows:
Icon
Meaning
Note
Deactivated
No device description is integrated in SIMATIC PDM for the
device.
4. If deactivated devices have been found, select the View > Details menu command.
5. Check the information in the "Object name" column.
Information in the "Object
name" column
Meaning
Further procedure
"TAG" or "Default"
A device description from the
device catalog has not yet
been assigned to the device.
Assign the required device description to
the device.
Section "Device selection (Reassign)
(Page 202)"
Plant-specific object
name
The device description that has
been assigned to the device
cannot be found or is no longer
functional (e.g. accidentally
deleted).
Integrate the required device description.
Section "Integrating device descriptions
(Page 40)"
Additional information
● Section "Overview of Device Icons (Page 124)"
● Section "Replacing devices (Page 106)"
● Section "Completing a device description (Page 41)"
● Section "Cleaning the project (reorganization) (Page 76)"
7.2.5
You can print out the parameter list for a device.
Functions
7.2 Project editing
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