Project planning and handling of the Safety Matrix
Calculate and adjust F-times using S7ftime.xlsm (reaction-, monitoring times)
Learning objectives
After attending the course, you can do the following:
Raise your awareness of the Machinery Directive and relevant standards
Select and configure failsafe hardware according to your functional safety requirements
Commission failsafe SIMATIC controllers
Configure safety-related functions and determine and set safety-relevant times
Configure and set up the SIMATIC PCS 7 Safety Matrix
Perform diagnostics and troubleshooting in failsafe systems and programs
You will deepen your theoretical knowledge through numerous practice-oriented exercises in our virtual exercise environment.
Target groups
Project managers, project staff
Programmer
Commissioning engineers, configuration engineers
Requirements
General basic knowledge of process automation
Independent work with SIMATIC PCS 7
- Experience in engineering and operating visualization with PCS 7 (OS)
- Experience in configuring the hardware, as well as programming in CFC with PCS 7 (AS)
We recommend attending the SIMATIC PCS 7 system course"ST-PCS7SYS". Alternatively, there is the option of booking our hybrid training variant as a Learning Journey, which can be ideally integrated into the daily business. The Learning Journey
"ST-PCS7SYS-LJ" consists of guided live modules with a trainer and upstream self-study modules.
Technical requirements
For the online training is a virtual training environment required, which is provided by us.
We recommend that you consider the technical requirements for the best possible use.
Information on the technical requirements with RealVNC in PDF format
Content
Understanding of functional safety
Basics from IEC 61508 and IEC 61511
LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) and Risk graph by means of a safety instrumented function