11.2.3 Exercise

Exercise: Checking the Alarm Contents with Alarm Summary

(1) Alarm Configuration

a) Select [Tools] – [Alarms] to bring up the [Alarm Configuration] window. Add an alarm to ‘Alarm Group 1’ and ‘Alarm Group 2’ respectively. Configure an alarm with the condition of “Greater than 200”, then configure another alarm with the condition of “Greater than 300”. Enter the Alarm Description as “Exceeded 200L” and “Exceeded 300L” respectively.

b) Select [Draw] – [Alarm Summary] and click the page to add two alarm summary objects. Double-click the object to configure the details such as alarm group to be displayed.

c) Since the operation will be checked by manually changing the tag value, add an object to the page and use the ‘EntryData’ feature as shown below.

(2) Checking the Operation

a) Write the project to Xpanel or execute simulator to check the operation. Input the value “230” to the ‘STORAGE’ tag. An alarm will only appear on the alarm summary object that displays the ‘Alarm Group 1’.

b) Input the value “190” to the tag. The existing alarm will be cleared.

c) Input the value “320” to the tag. ‘Exceeded 200L’ and ‘Exceeded 300L’ alarms will appear on the corresponding alarm summary object.

d) Input the value “270” to the tag. Only the ‘Exceeded 300L’ alarm of ‘Alarm Group 2’ will be cleared.