The user-friendly STARTER commissioning tool can be used for

• Commissioning
• Optimizing and
• Diagnostics

This software can either be operated as a stand-alone PC application or can be integrated into the SCOUT engineering system (with SIMOTION) or STEP 7 (with Drive ES Basic). The basic functions and handling are the same in both cases.

Engineering can be performed online, directly connected with the drive, or offline. If several drives are connected to a communication bus, then an online connection can be established to several drives simultaneously.

SINAMICS DC MASTER is supported from STARTER 4.1.5; it is not possible to use older STARTER versions.

The project wizards can be used to create the drives within the structure of the project tree.

Entry level personnel are interactively supported in a solution-oriented way.

First commissioning is guided by a wizard which makes all the basic settings in the drive. Therefore, getting a motor up and running is merely a question of setting a few parameters as part of the drive configuration process. The travel commands can be simply entered via the control panel from the PC.

The individual settings can be made using the graphic parameterizing screen forms, which precisely visualize the drive mode of operation.

Examples of individual settings that can be made include:

• Terminals
• Bus interface
• BICO interconnections
• Diagnostics

Experts can quickly access all of the parameters via the Expert List and do not have to navigate through dialogs.

In addition, the following functions are available for optimization purposes:

• Trace to precisely trace signals

Diagnostic functions provide information about:

• Control/status words
• Parameter status
• Operating conditions
• Communication states

Performance features

• Easy to use: Only a small number of settings need to be made for successful first commissioning: the motor turns
• Solution-based user navigation simplifies commissioning
• The built-in trace function provides optimum support during commissioning, optimization and troubleshooting

Minimum hardware and software requirements

• Hardware
  • PG or PC with Pentium III 1 GHz (recommended: > 1 GHz)
  • 1 GB RAM (recommended: 2 GB RAM)
  • Screen resolution 1 024 ? 768 pixels, 16 bits color depth
  • Free hard disk memory: 3 GB
• Software
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer V6.0 or higher
  • 32 bits operating systems:
    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2
    Microsoft Windows Server 2008
    Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3
    Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1
    Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
    Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (Standard installation)
  • 64 bits operating systems:
    Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1
    Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
    Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (Standard installation)
    Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2