Rockwell Automation Device Libraries

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Description
Rockwell Automation has updated their Power Device Library (v3.05) and Safety Device Library (v1.05) to support FactorTalk Optix v1.4.

These device libraries provide prebuilt faceplates that can be imported into FactoryTalk Optix Studio and used in your applications.

This video provides a quick walk through of how to download the device libraries and use them in FactoryTalk Optix.

Transcript
(00:01) in this video I’d like to take a few minutes just to show the new um face plates for Factor talk Optics that Rockwell Automation has um made available so one of the things that were you know one of the most anticipated new features of the 1.4 release of factor talk Optics is support for face plates if you’re not that familiar with face plates um Rockall automation has a complete library of um these Bas plates for various um products that can uh easily integrate into a Logix controller as far as the add-on instructions go and
(00:40) then the graphical piece would go into the HMI uh tools such as um view or view machine Edition for a panel view or even the panel view 5000 using the studio 5000 view designer so when Optics was released um by Rockwell you know couple years ago now year and a half ago now um the face plates were something that you know weren’t there yet but were in development so with version 1.
(01:09) 4 um we now have the ability to uh to bring in these face plates so next piece of that of course is the the device libraries themselves so they have to be updated to work with Optics so at the moment here um at the time of this video being recorded which is early July 2024 the first two device libraries have been released that uh provide face plates for Optics so one is the power device Library which has uh got shown here uh version 3.
(01:46) 05 now supports Factory talk Optics so the power device library is a pretty extensive library with um with h HMI face plates for all the power devices from Rockwell such as uh e300s power Flex drives um the kinetics armor kinetics um as well as uh the soft start smc’s so so pretty pretty useful amount of um devices listed here uh what the face plate typically does is it gives you a kind of a graphical launch button and then the actual face plate itself and the face plate is just a pre-built um popup that that you know pulls information for from the logic’s
(02:31) controller and then displays it in a u you know simplified and organized manner so again there’s usually two pieces to to working with with these face plates you know one you have to install an add-on instruction inside your Logics controller be it either control objects or compact objects and then that add-on instruction will interface with this face plate in the HMI software the the other library that got released here just um just the beginning of July is the safety device library and it will be version 1.05 so it’s
(03:07) important that you that you get this the latest version if you need to have the Optics support the safety device Library um basically will provide some face plates around uh some of the safety uh devices and um you know things like the uh dual Channel um safety mats and stuff like that so um again these are designed to help you kind of uh simplify your your uh application or your development and use a consistent you know face plate amongst all the all the products so first part is how do we find this device
(03:50) Library if you’re not that familiar with um with with them if you’ve used them before in the in panel views or in Factor talk view site Edition then the process here is going to be pretty similar but it’s all going to start uh first off the face plates are free they’re completely free download so all you got to do is go to the Rockwell compatibility download Center and uh if you just kind of come here to the search bar we can type uh type in for instance power device library and I’m going to hit search so we can see that we we get both
(04:26) the device library and then the power device so this is the complete set of all the libraries that are out there and you can kind of see the listing here you know in addition to the power you also have an IO device Library iol link um the safety device Network device for the stratic switches condition monitoring so the rest of these face face plates will eventually come uh will get updated to have optic support um but a currently again the only two that are out there uh will be the power device library and the
(04:59) safety device Library so I want to look at the power device Library more specifically I’m going to go ahead and click on versions just to show you that uh this this kind of chart shows you the previous versions so so again 3.05 is the latest version um so anything below 3.05 would not support Optics another little um tip here is if you don’t really know if this supports Optics or not you can uh click on the show release notes and that’ll pull up the release notes and we can see here that the uh under requirements that uh
(05:35) pror talk Optics 1.4 uh 938 or later is listed here so we know that this particular library is supported by Optics so at this point you can simply download the library and then uh when you do that it will go into your kind of default download folder for Rockwell software which for me is the at the C Level uh root level creates an RA folder for Rockell automation you’ll get this power device Library it comes down as a zip file once you extract the zip file you’ll get the um you’ll get this kind of file structure or folder structure um
(06:18) in the folder so um it’s it’s good to take a few minutes to explore all these folders just to kind of become familiar with what these libraries do uh you can see see that you know there is a folder now for the Optics libraries there’s a folder for the me machine Edition site Edition view designer which again would be the panel view 5000 and there are all the studio 5000 Logics designer files so these are your add-on profiles that would work with each of the face plates there is a folder here for videos so Rockell has
(06:55) some some videos that they they provide that just talks about how to import and use the face plates unfortunately from what I’ve seen here they haven’t updated this for Optics yet um these are all around machine Edition and and VSC but um but even uh if you’re not you know if you’ve never used a face P before some of these videos could actually be useful even if you they don’t have Optics um you know specifically uh the other thing is the reference manual so there is the reference manual right here which I’ve already have open
(07:32) and it’s very important to take a few minutes to just read through this manual it’s going to talk about not only how do you use the library and how do you import the the face plates into Optics uh it also give you information on each individual face plate and and some details about it so this is a pretty extensive book it’s 358 Pages because it goes through each and every face plate in detail so um definitely take a few minutes to read through this manual um if we uh let me come back up here L my spot let me come to install the library
(08:11) um using fector Talk Optics so if I just click ahead to here um I’ll show this to you in a minute but it talks about you know how to download the library which I just showed you how to register which essentially means installing they they use the term register here there’s nothing to register there’s no license required um and then where the libraries kind of show up inside of Optics and also some discussion around using the stylesheet and I’ll show that here in a few minutes as well so the other thing I want to show
(08:42) in the folder before I uh move on is that there is an example application example that’s actually what I’m going to use so you can we can open up this Optics application example they also give you one for machine Edition and site Edition they even give us a demo ACD file that will have that has all the add-on profiles already installed so I could it’ll interface to the face plates so um I went ahead and took the Optics and the ACD file and I’ve uh went ahead and uh and got that uh open up here in Optics as well as in studio
(09:24) 5000 so just to show you in as far as Studio 5000 goes you know the the process is you would you would bring in the add-on instruction for that particular device so for instance if you have a power Flex 525 drive you would bring in the add-on instruction that would be for the face plate you know to interface with the face plate for the powerflex 525 drive so if I uh if I just come here to under assets we’ll see add-on instructions and this particular demo program again which comes with the the down has all the add-on instructions kind of
(10:02) already put in here right so it’s very um kind of a complete project you can kind of De uh reverse engineered a little bit and and take a look at uh what they’ve done as far as the tags go um if we go under program we’ll see that uh we have local tags and we they’re all kind of called DVC for device so each of these um kind of uh data types user defined data types so to speak or or or will have the the tags associated with that particular device and that’s kind of what Optics is going to interface with is each one of
(10:44) these kind of tag um structures here all right so um since I don’t have a uh extensive lab with all these devices I do have this running in my Logics Echo so I have a u i have this chassis with the CPU and slot three uh which corresponds to what’s happens here in this U example program so I have a uh basically this program is running in the Echo right now so if I come back to Optics um just to show you a few things here one how do you find the um the face plates well we’re going to come up here to the library so when you do install
(11:24) them once they get installed into Optics um which I didn’t show that step by the way it’s actually very straightforward back here in in the library there is a setup um script setup command script all you got to do is double click that and that setup command uh script will basically take the Optics files that are in this Li in this folder and then put them into the into the library for you so there’s nothing for you to actually physically do other than double click on that uh startup script or setup script so to find them we’re
(11:59) going we’re going to go basically to the library and uh we see now that under uh you know here in the um in the top we have a couple things that got added uh we have the power device and the v3r for version three uh also have the safety one loaded in here but if I expand this or just click on it we’ll see that we have these folders with all this RAC 302 ra so each one of these uh refers is as a face plate for the for a particular item and if I click on it it it does give me a little bit information here that it’s power monitor
(12:40) 500 right so this is the power monitor 500 face plate and again if I want to learn more about what this face plate is I come back to the users manual and I can find that face plate you know down down um further down in the manual so what we will do um is we would just basically find the face FL we want and we will drag it click on it and drag it here into the UI folder that’s all we got to do um just to show you that uh the safety device library is here as well so just click on a few of these to show you that um you know safety
(13:18) feedback interface just again get some information on each of those the other thing that um that the book suggests is that we want to use the ISA sty stylesheet so in the library there’s also another kind of section uh called stylesheets so they have some predefined stylesheets available to us um friendly dark friendly light Isa stylesheet and the um uh in the material Dart so if when you read through the the book on the on the um face plates it it suggests that you use the ISA stylesheet because that’s what the face plates are using
(13:58) that style sheet sheet so to use a stylesheet if you’re not familiar with that process um what you typically do is you can create a folder in this case this isn’t a pre-built um application so they have a folder under UI created called stylesheet you would just create this folder come up here to UI and say new um let me close this so say new and then create a new um folder down here at the bottom so right just create a folder again and then uh back at the library all I would do is I would just take this stylesheet and drag it here to
(14:42) the folder all right I’m not going to do it since it’s already there um then to to use the stylesheet if I click on this we’ll see over here in the properties these are all the properties uh for the project the stylesheet to use to basically reference the sty sty sheet we’ll come up here to the native presentation engine and when we come to the uh there’s a stylesheet property and we want to link it to this ISX stylesheet so basically we can just drag it over here by default it you know it won’t have that there if you have a new
(15:16) project going okay the other piece of this is that um basically we can click on these other folders that have been created in this project such as power discrete velocity motion and monitor and extension and we can see that um there are kind of that’s where the face plates have been brought in so these RAC 303 device these are all the face plates they were simply just dragged into this particular folder um this this uh type panel here is just basically what the uh what the uh the screen is so here’s the objects
(15:55) that are on the screen and um in this case we have have some text buttons and some graphical buttons so if I clicked on this graphical button um basically it’s referencing and I’m going to try to uh bring this over a bit more this is deicing the referencing the device tag uh device as 280e and again that will bring us back to over here device as 280e right so that’s basically how we’re linking Optics back to the Logics controller all right so just to show you uh what this really does for us um I have the emulator running already and um
(16:42) you know this this again this is the example application that comes there’s a uh there’s a page for for discret devices there’s a page for velocity devices such as the power Flex drives motion for the kinetics and Power monitors so all they’re doing here in this example program is they’re showing you that you have two ways to kind of call up the face plate one is a a text button and then one is the graphical button so you’ll get both of these come in the library as well so the nice thing about the graphical buttons is it kind
(17:17) of gives you a little bit of a you know an icon of what the device is for instance um I click on this this is a powerflex 527 um uh sm17 so this is an example of what the face plate looks like right so I don’t have any data unfortunately because I’m not connected to um you know to real devices but just to show you you know we can we get kind of a home uh tab with some basic information on position and velocity and uh you can get some um there’s some control here we get the kind of the device health uh little LEDs
(18:00) uh we get a uh we get a trend on position versus velocity Trends here we get if there’s any U any error messages right so every device we click on that was a that was a 527 I believe this is a kinetics 5100 right so each face plate for each device will be slightly different based on on the devices themselves I come back to the power Monitor and let’s say I’ll click on this PM 103 this is our power monitor 5000 right so just some basic information on the energy consumption um this gives us all of our information lines one 2 and three uh
(18:39) kilowatt kilar KVA and then uh we get our voltage and current on this tab uh some graph some uh it’s like vector graph um all right so uh you can come through each of these tabs and just kind of get familiar with the very various devices this is an armor power Flex uh you know another drive basically on Machine drive and then under discreet we have things like the E300 so E300 we’re going to get you know some basic information on current full load amp percentage um any kind of status indicators and some basic
(19:22) graphs all right so the the face plates are are nice because again these are all been pre-built built by Rockwell you don’t have to do anything all you need to do is add the add-on instruction and then link it to this face plate here in your HMI package in this case Optics and you’re going to get all the information populates into the face plate pretty simple so again um couple of things we need to be aware of is that you know this is only supported now in the new version 1.4 release of Optics which is what I’m
(19:58) running the other thing that um is suggested at this point is that you need to make sure that you have your um uh show Advance preview option checked now it’s not checked for some reason here um at the moment although it was checked earlier but make sure that your showed uh feature previews is checked and the reason for that is because one of the feature previews um in version 1.
(20:29) 4 which is a basically a feature preview is is is kind of a beta something that will be you know coming out in probably the 1.5 release but one of the feuture previews is extended tag um structure of of Logics tags so you do have to have those extended tag properties um available to to for somebody these face plates so extended tag properties is a feature preview in 1.
(20:57) 4 so make sure that that is checked that’s also documented in the users manual so anyway this is pretty exciting um you this is one of the things that uh we’ve been been waiting for for Optics it has you know again just two libraries are out there currently but additional libraries will continue to get uh updated throughout the rest of this year so that we’ll have a complete uh you know complete set of face plate libraries for faor talk Optics

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