Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My
name is Sean Tierney from Insights and Automation.
And today, we're talking
e t 200 s p distributed IO from
Siemens.
Before we go any farther, I do wanna
thank Siemens for sending in the samples and
for sponsoring this episode so it will be
ad free, and that's as far as it
goes. Everything else is my own opinion and
thoughts. And, although I do appreciate them making
this ad free and sending in the samples
because I wanna be able to show them
to you if I didn't have them. And,
this is one of the reasons I'm doing
this is I just put these hands on
demos together for my students who come out
to the automation school for hands on training.
So I wanted to have something they could
bring to their station and program with an
s seven twelve hundred or 1,500.
And, so I'm creating a bunch of these,
and you'll see more and more of these
as the weeks go on. But in any
case, I we previously covered a couple on
IFM, but now I'm doing the e t
200 s p. So we'll take a closer
look at the hardware in a little bit.
But But before we get into the hardware,
I did wanna run through some slides that
do a great job of explaining what e
t 200 s p I o is. And,
again, I call it distributed IO, not remote
IO because here in America,
most of us know there is a remote
IO product from Rockwell Automation that is trademarked,
Rockwell. So we don't wanna confuse people by
using the term remote IO when possible. So
let's go ahead and go to the slide
deck now.
And,
the first slide is and, again, these this
is a slightly of a couple three year
old slide deck from Siemens that we're gonna
be going through.
And, you know, the first thing is, hey.
E t 200 s p and e t
200 m p I o or I p
20 in cabinet I o. They're not on
machine or machine mount IO.
And, of course, the e t 200 MP
is the full size IO that's about the
same size as the 1,500,
whereas the SP is the smaller. They're like
the slice IO you see from all the
different vendors. A matter of fact, a couple
of big vendors are coming out with new
IO this fall or have already come out
with it, and we'll be covering those as
well in the coming weeks. But today, we're
focusing on e t 200 s p. And
so I wanted to,
talk about, you know, this is a marketing
slide that Siemens puts in their presentations, and
it makes sense. All the vendors wanna have
IO for all the different applications,
and Siemens is no different. And, actually, they
got some stuff that other vendors don't have.
But I'm gonna go right beyond this one
and jump right into,
you know, the main selling points of this
product line where it's compact, it's fast, it's
any of NG efficient, it's easy to wire,
and I can attest to that having done
three, four hundred wires here. It was very
easy to wire. I really liked it.
They say it has a great environmental coverage.
There actually is,
some extreme modules. We'll talk about that towards
the end. And then built in diagnostics. Again,
depending if you buy the high function and
standard or basic modules, right, will depend on
what kinda diagnostics you get. In any case,
here is what it looks like now. The
coloring of this slide, I think that the
pictures colors the gray is a little lighter,
almost it's almost like a light green. It's
darker in person as we saw. Let me
switch over here. As you can see here.
So, I don't know what's going on with
that, but one of the things you do
see on this slide is,
one of the first things you'll notice is
a fail safe module, so safety modules. So,
yes, you can mix standard and fail safe
modules in the same
rack or same lineup.
The other thing you'll notice is it's compact
like most of the Slice I o that's
out there. Energy efficient ruggedness, there is an
extreme version of this available.
Intelligent, you can get high functionality modules. Right?
Push in terminals, which I really liked, very
easy to use, tool free connections. Of course,
if you'd put a wire in the wrong
place, which happened to me once or twice
out of 400 wires,
you can use a screwdriver and get it
out really quick, and then,
reduced parts of variance. So that's their marketing
on this product line, but I also wanna
call attention all the different ways you can
actually mark up the products. You can put
labels in the front, right in the front
of the module itself. You can put labels
on top and on the back as well.
So a lot of different labeling options is
also a color coding you can put over
the terminals as well. We'll see that a
little bit later. In any case,
this is the physically how it goes together.
So first of all, it doesn't you they
don't all just slide together like tongue and
groove. You do have to put them on
the DIN rail and slide them into each
other from right to left. So keep that
in mind.
Okay. And we always start the leftmost part
is what we call an interface
module.
And so think of that if you're a
Rockwell guy, that's your adapter. Okay? Now the
interface module, most of these take a bus
adapter. In other words, you can choose copper
or you can choose fiber, or you can
choose copper and fiber. And I love this
design because, well, I'm sure it adds a
little cost to the product. Being able to
swap out copper for fiber if you need
to or do one copper one fiber if
you need to, I think it's a great
idea. That kind of flexibility is great. Now
there is a low cost interface module that
has that bus adapter built in, but in
any case, most of them, as you'll see,
what was what I'll show you here on
the workbench,
it's module. You choose the one you want
and this basic and advanced and we'll take
a look at all those. Then you have
the bases and the IO modules and we'll
look at this in real time here on
the workbench in a moment, but you can
see here the basis of what the IO
modules plug into. If you look there on
the the fourth item there, it's just a
base module without the IO.
And, that's what clips onto the DIN rail
and slides together, and then we stick our
IO modules in. Also, share the keying. A
lot of people leave that out, but I
think it's pretty cool what they do there.
And at the very end, they have something
called a server module.
The name for this, I'm thinking of servers
like a computer server. So I don't know
what happened with the translation there, but it's
like an end cap. If you're a Rockwell
person, it's like an end cap. You gotta
have that at the end.
It doesn't really serve up anything, but, in
any case, you gotta have it. So
in any case, then you can see kinda
how it's laid out there.
Let's go ahead and go to the next
slide here. And, these are all the different
type of interface modules they have. So the
very basic one, right, if you needed a
low cost drop of IO, it only does
up to 12 modules, but,
you know, it's an all in one unit
with two Ethernet ports built in, and you
can use all the modules with it except
for safety modules.
K. So that's important to know. Then we
have the standard interface modules, which do up
to 32 modules. Right? You can use safety
with them.
You can actually expand them to
e t 200 a l if you needed
to have some,
on machine products or machine mount I o.
I'll show you the a l in a
future video. We're gonna cover that separately.
And you can
hot swap any single module at a time,
which is very cool. And then, of course,
if we go to the high featured, we
get up to 64 modules.
You can multi hot swap, multiple modules.
You can actually set it for asynchronous mode
so you can get the speeds up to
two hundred fifty microseconds.
So it's, very cool there. And you can
see the other options there including the CPU,
which we will cover. That'll probably be next
week, though.
Alright. So, one of the cool features they
have is this was new at the time
of this, you know, two, three years ago
of this presentation is they added a,
a unit that actually could use three Ethernet
ports. So why would you do that? Well,
think of it. Right? You maybe you're daisy
chaining from one interface module to the next
and you have a station where you either
need a bulkhead connector so you can program
from or you have an HMI.
You need that third connection. Right? And so
this allows you to have three connections. Now
the downside of this is you actually have
four connections, but you can only use three
and I'll show you what I mean here.
Let's go back to the overhead, and I
actually have that module right here. Thank you,
Siemens, for sending him in. And you can
see I have my two bus adapters,
but I can only use three of the
four. Okay? So it's it's just a limitation.
And, you know, I don't really know why
they're limited to that. I'm sure there's a
reason. I was thinking about that earlier. It's
like, maybe they wanted to prevent this or
that or the other thing, but in any
case,
it's still cool. It's so much cheaper than
buying a switch and putting it in that
place. Well, in most cases, it would be.
Right? There's also the optional,
grooves here. Let me switch back. There's also
optional grooves here. I don't know if you
can see them very well. We'll zoom in
later. But that is for,
strain relief, if you need to have that
as well. You can see those plastic pieces
go in, and then you can,
you know, zip tie your cables right to
them.
So very interesting new product there. And then
these are all of the different,
bus adapters. So you can see there's,
basic ones with two RJ 45 ports,
two FastConnect
ports. There's, units with,
one RJ forty five one fiber optic and
so on. So lots of different options there
to choose from. And, again, not a lot
of people do this. You have to replace
the whole interface module with other companies' products,
like in Rockwood would be an adapter to
get a difference. Right? And here, you don't
have to. You just replace the,
the, bus adapter.
Okay. Now here's just showing the different type
of modules. So if you're familiar with Siemens,
you know, all their modules come well, most
of their modules come in different flavors. You
have the standard, you have the basic, and
you have the high feature. Right? And they're
also showing,
a safety module there with the yellow, and
then you can also get high speed. So
lots of different options here. And we'll take
a look at that. But, they all have
different, article numbers or part numbers for us
Americans.
And so,
you know, if you're in OEM, you're just
doing a lot of clickety clack, maybe you
get all the basics. If you're in process,
you're probably gonna want the high features, advanced
diagnostics, and so on. So in any case,
and this is what the front of them
looks like. Of course, they have digital in
and digital out. They have analog in and
analog out. They also have what I call
specialty.
So they have technology modules and communication modules.
I love,
that they have, BACnet and IO Link and
PROFIBUS,
Aussie in this form factor as well as
conning modules, position modules,
energy management, weighing modules, all those different modules.
And here's some of the other things too.
So tool free, I did all three or
400 wires. It was all tool free. I
just put my wire in. Boom. It clamped
a really good across your pool test every
single one. Right? And so I've been one
of the guys who've driven
hours and hours to find out the problem
wasn't with the product. It was with the
guy who wired it. He didn't screw them
down tight enough. So you pool test everyone,
make sure they're in there solidly, and, I
didn't have any problems at all. Very easy
to take out. I have a couple that
I forgot to run them through the Panduit.
I just looped over the Panduit and and
over the top of the box. And I'm
like, Sean, if you put it in that
way, you won't be able to close the
cover. So So when you're doing so many,
sometimes you get distracted. So in any case,
very easy to get them back out if
you put them in the wrong and you
need to rewire them somewhere else.
They say they're 50% narrower. I would say
that versus the e t 200 m p.
I think they're about the same size as,
everybody else's slice IO, very close. And then
you can see there the marking,
at the bottom. Those reference identification labels, that
those are pretty cool,
if you need the color code, the wire,
terminals.
Okay. So let's go on from there and,
this one is really cool too. Now this
is a fairly new not everybody knows about
this, but this is the multi field bus
version of the interface module. I think this
is so cool. It does Ethernet p. It
does Modbus TCP, and it does PROFINET all
in one module. It does set up a
little differently. When I was testing it out,
I was like, wow. That does set up
a little differently than the other interface modules.
But, I didn't have to use the, the
separate tool to get it working.
So in any case,
very cool, and it can talk all three
at the same time. So if you had
a couple of the of people who needed
to listen to the traffic, but you need
one station to control it, then, you could
have all three running at the same time.
I just think that's so cool. And we
do have one here. We're gonna do it
use it first with the Siemens and then
maybe use it with the Rockwells if time
permits. But, definitely wanna do that, in another
episode of the show. But, very cool. I'm
I matter of fact, we just, did an
episode. It's not released yet, but, it will
be out shortly with the METTLENOTO I n
d three sixty, and that also supports multiple
protocols. So so cool. I love it when
vendors do that all in the same part
number. So cool.
And so you can see more information about
that here. I'm not gonna go into details.
We'll talk about later, when we actually have
the episode on that. And another thing I
noticed with their high function
modules, it says firmware 4.1 and up is
that you can, so on the HF modules,
you could do module to module communications.
So you're talking, like,
screw to screw,
like, two hundred fifty microseconds. I think that's
so cool. That's something else if time permits.
In the coming days, we'll, do a demo
on that too if we can get, if
we have the time to do it. I
just think it's a cool feature. I'd love
to see it in action.
There's other things in here about, other types
of modules.
I'm not gonna go through all this.
This one I thought was pretty interesting. It's
48 24 to 48 volts AC or 48
volt DC.
So eight inputs either AC or DC in
those ranges and it has a built in
fuse which I think is so important. Right?
So, an interesting new module that does both
AC and DC. Right? Looked like it was
really designed for transportation and that kinda wraps
up the PowerPoint slide. And, again, this is
just one
of many of their lines. Oh, I do
wanna mention this. This should have been before
that. This is the extreme version of what
they call their psi plus extreme, where you
get the minus 40 to 70 degrees c.
You can install it,
up to 5,000 meters. You know, the air
is thinner up there. It can, handle salt
mist, chemical, active substances.
You know, this is a lot of people
would think of this as conformally coated.
So, you can see all of those different,
regulations that the extreme version,
makes. Okay? The Ciplas Extreme.
So with that, let's see. Last slide here.
So this is just one of many products.
So we've covered this in the past. We
covered the 1,200 to 1,500.
This is the t 200 s p. We
will be covering the a l and the
Eco PN. I think these are both Eco
PN,
in the future.
But with that, I wanna actually give you
a physical demo of how this stuff works.
So in any case, let me move the
modules around here a little bit, and we'll
be zooming in and out. So this is
the unit I, I, you know, wired up
this weekend,
and we'll zoom in on her. And this
is the one that gives you the, up
to threes that I put, so you have
two bus adapters.
Okay? And it's a little bit wider. If
you look at one of the other ones,
you can see it's a lot narrower. Right?
That's actually the multi field bus model, which
is about the same size as the standard
model. Well, long here, I might as well
bring that one in too
and show you that one.
K.
So in any case
but, let's focus on this guy, and, we'll
take a look at I wanted to show
you this one because this one also has
the analog in, even though I haven't put
the analog operators and make gauges on the
panel.
I do have them wired up. Right now,
I just have them wired to each other.
But in any case, so let's go ahead
and zoom in on this a little bit.
Okay. First thing you're gonna notice is the
first terminal block here, the first base
is is a light style, and then they
go to the darker style. And that's because
you can bring power into these light bases.
Right? Like an a zero. And, I go
through all the part numbers in my course.
You guys can find that in the literature.
But and it passes power to these other
bases. Okay. So you'll typically start with a
light style. You'll go through as many bases
as you can power until you need another
or you need isolation
until you need another, light style base.
And then
here, you can see the modules themselves.
I love the fact that everything has a
QR code on it. So if you need
the manual, you just you just, you know,
get your phone out and and it'll link
right to it. But I want the wire
in here, so I was able to wire
everything based on
just, the little label here. And again, this
is where you can slide in your own
labels if you want. And then the indicators
here, they all worked when we when we
actually do in a next video, we actually
do the integration. You'll see these lights come
on. They're very easy to see. You can
also see here some version information. I did
run into some of these modules being too
new for version 16.
So I usually default to version 16 because
that's what I started with. But, if you
have 16.1, you can get the new GSD
file and
it supports most of the I think almost
all the new modules. In any case, up
here and I do have a mix of
new and used because back when I was,
getting ready to do this, we had the
whole component sort shortage, so I had to
pick up some modules myself. But, in any
case, you'll see the type here. Digital in,
and this is a basic. Okay? So eight
by 24, eight inputs at 24 volts DC.
And then you have the digital output, DQ.
This is a standard eight by 24.
Eight u, I believe that means voltage,
and, u for voltage.
But in any case and then if we
come over here, we have an a q.
This is a standard, s t, and this
is for UI, so voltage or current.
And so you can see those there.
And down here is the article number, which
we typically refer to as, like, a,
catalog number here in The US.
K.
And so when I'm sending these up, I
take a picture of the front of the
unit, and that's what I use to set
them up in the software.
But in any case,
you can also see the versions here
as well.
I love that all that information is on
the front of the module. And then at
the top, we already looked at that.
And so we already looked at the top.
And then
over here, we have the server module,
or what we may call an end cap
here in The US.
Alright. So one of the cool things about
this,
these modules is the keying. So I'm going
to take these out just by squeezing in.
I'm gonna pull it out,
pull this one out too.
Okay. And in there, you can see I
know the lighting's a little tricky, but in
there, you see those black
little wheels, those circular black things? Those are
the keys. And you can see how they're
let's see if I go up to the
camera. If I put the overhead light on,
it just gives too much glare. So hopefully,
you guys can see that. Well, the cool
thing about that is
that those come pre installed on the modules.
Like, they clipped in there really good,
and they don't come loose until you stick
them in
all the way, and then they stay in
the base. And I love that. So you
don't have to turn anything. You don't have
to memorize what position it's in. You just
put the module in and boom. Now I
did have a couple modules put in the
wrong position, so I was able to get
out with a screwdriver, get in that little,
notch there and get it out. But you
can see there's two notches in each, but
I it doesn't feel like when I was
doing that, it didn't feel like it was
designed for those to be reused. So I
probably say that not, but let's go ahead
and try to put this module in the
wrong place. Yeah. You can.
So, I really like that design feature,
automatic keying,
and,
yeah. That's great. And they really go in.
You're gonna make sure they're all the way
in, but once they're in, they're in. Now
let me zoom out a little bit and
show you how to take them apart and
put them back together.
So there are these,
push in
buttons here on the top. Right?
So these latches, these releases.
And so what I'll do is let me
push in the first two, the the server
module and the module, and I'm gonna slide
them to the right. Okay?
And I know it has all the, wiring
on it. But in any case, that's how
easy it is to assemble and disassemble.
Quick
or disassemble like this. Okay. And now to
get them on and off the DIN rail,
I'm gonna push in those two,
tabs at the top there. I'm gonna lift
the bottom up. Okay. Now I can get
it off the DIN rail.
Alright. And so when you're pushing in that
top tab, it's doing two things. Okay? It's
gonna release the, DIN rail, but it's also
gonna release the connection to the module on
the side of it. Alright?
And so you're gonna be cognizant of that.
Alright? You can't just release it release the
module off the DIN rail. You have to
release it from the side as well.
Okay.
And, you can see that here. Well, let's
see if we can get him off. He's
a little sticky. I don't know why. He
could be used.
But in any case,
get him off.
Okay.
And it's the same for the sky too.
Let's see here.
So let's go ahead and put it back
together again. We'll put the top on first
and then we'll click it on to the
bottom.
Okay.
And then we'll slide it in.
Nice.
Then we'll do the same thing for the
server module and cap.
Okay. It's not called the end cap. That's
my race.
Okay.
And this one, sometimes
this might be a useful one. There we
go. It's all in together
and working great. You gotta make sure you
get those modules all the way in.
Okay. And there's a lot of great, diagnostics
when you get the system up and running.
It'll tell you if it's missing a module.
It'll tell you if you chose the wrong
base in the software.
If let's say you chose the light colored
base
versus the dark colored base. I mean, the
new power versus
the power pass on.
It'll tell you if you get the wrong
firmware or the wrong style. Maybe you chose
a standard and it's a basic. So you
get all that kind of stuff that you
would normally get
when you're, you know, to make sure you
have the right IO modules. And so with
that, that is a,
look at e t 200 s p. I
hope it makes sense to you now. Now
if you've been using this for a long
time, longer than I have, and you have
some more tips, please leave them in the
comments. I do appreciate everybody who comments on
the videos wherever the video is.
Also,
we do have more content coming out about
this. We're gonna go through each of these
in a separate video and get each of
these up and running from scratch. And then
after that, there'll be new lessons at the
Automation School for anybody who's interested
in maybe a longer version of this with
more details and support. Right? So in any
case and, of course, if you guys wanna
call me and, have a group of your
guys come in and do some hands on
training, these are actually ready
to be used in the training room with
all the s seven twelve hundreds and 15
hundreds. So if you wanna do some hands
on training. It's, we're very unique here because
of having the automation
show and podcast and blog and all the
vendors we work with. We have a lot
of equipment that you will find almost in
nobody else's training,
rooms. So with that, I wanna thank you
all for tuning in. I wanna wish you
all good health and happiness.
And until next time, my friends,
peace.