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1. Welcome to COPA-DATA help ...................................................................................................... 1
2. straton ............................................................................................................................................. 2
3. Basics straton Workbench (IEC 61131-3) ..................................................................................... 3
3.1 General information about this help chapter ............................................................................... 3
3.2 straton General ............................................................................................................................. 4
3.3 straton toolbar and context menu detail view ............................................................................. 5
3.4 First steps with straton in zenon .................................................................................................. 6
3.4.1 Create a straton project in a zenon project ..................................................................... 6
3.4.2 Edit a straton project ...................................................................................................... 9
3.4.3 Design of the Workbench ............................................................................................... 9
3.5 Variable handling ....................................................................................................................... 10
3.5.1 Create O and M variables in straton ............................................................................. 11
3.5.2 Create O and M variables in zenon ............................................................................... 14
3.5.3 Using zenon variables in straton .................................................................................. 15
3.5.4 Variable names.............................................................................................................. 19
3.6 Arrays ......................................................................................................................................... 21
3.7 Data structures ........................................................................................................................... 21
3.8 Distributed engineering (multiuser) ........................................................................................... 22
3.9 Reusing projects ......................................................................................................................... 23
4. straton Workbench ...................................................................................................................... 24
5. straton Runtime (Soft PLC) ......................................................................................................... 25
5.1 User interface ............................................................................................................................. 25
5.1.1 Slider Allowed maximum .............................................................................................. 26
5.1.2 Settings ......................................................................................................................... 27
5.1.3 Messages ....................................................................................................................... 32
5.2 Licensing ..................................................................................................................................... 33
5.2.1 Demo mode ................................................................................................................... 34
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5.3 Start the straton Runtime .......................................................................................................... 34
5.4 straton Runtime cycle ................................................................................................................ 38
5.5 Close the straton Runtime .......................................................................................................... 40
5.6 Remote systems ......................................................................................................................... 41
5.6.1 zenon Runtime and straton Runtime on one remote PC .............................................. 42
5.6.2 straton Runtime autarkic (PC) ...................................................................................... 42
5.7 straton Runtime with Real Time Kernel (RTK) .......................................................................... 43
5.7.1 Restrictions and requirements of the straton RTK ....................................................... 47
5.7.2 straton RTK configuration ............................................................................................ 49
5.7.3 Blue Screen Handling .................................................................................................... 56
5.7.4 Error codes when starting stratonRTK ......................................................................... 57
5.8 Redundancy straton and zenon ................................................................................................. 60
5.8.1 Requirements ................................................................................................................ 60
5.8.2 Configure redundancy .................................................................................................. 62
5.9 OEM spezifikation ...................................................................................................................... 65
5.10 straton I/O driver support ......................................................................................................... 68
5.11 straton I/O driver: Hot-Restart/Online Change ........................................................................ 70
6. straton Runtime Manager ........................................................................................................... 72
6.1 Why should you use the straton Runtime Manager? ................................................................ 72
6.2 Main menu ................................................................................................................................. 72
6.3 Properties help ........................................................................................................................... 73
6.3.1 Configuration list .......................................................................................................... 73
6.3.2 straton project folder .................................................................................................... 73
6.3.3 Name of the configuration ............................................................................................ 73
6.3.4 Port (Main).................................................................................................................... 74
6.3.5 Port (Binding) ............................................................................................................... 74
6.3.6 Startup .......................................................................................................................... 75
6.3.7 Start in step mode ......................................................................................................... 75
6.3.8 Windows real time priority ........................................................................................... 75
6.3.9 Hard real time ............................................................................................................... 76
6.3.10 Report output ............................................................................................................... 76
6.3.11 Auto start ...................................................................................................................... 77
6.3.12 Button "New" ................................................................................................................ 78
6.3.13 Button "Edit" ................................................................................................................. 78