Various software packages are available for selection:

• Drive ES Basic (phase-out product)
• Drive ES Basic Maintenance (available soon)
• Drive ES PCS 7 (APL Style or Classic Style)

Drive ES Basic (phase-out product)

Drive ES Basic is for first-time users of the world of Totally Integrated Automation and the basic software for setting the parameters of all drives online and offline in this environment. Drive ES Basic enables both the automation system and the drives to be handled using the SIMATIC Manager software. Drive ES Basic is the starting point for common data archiving for complete projects and for extending the use of the SIMATIC teleservice to drives. Drive ES Basic provides the configuration tools for the new Motion Control functions – slave-to-slave communication, equidistance and isochronous operation with PROFIBUS DP and ensures that drives with PROFINET IO are simply integrated into the SIMATIC environment.

Note:

For SINAMICS and MICROMASTER 4 drives, this TIA functionality is provided with the STARTER commissioning tool (V4.3.2 and higher).

Drive ES Basic Maintenance (available soon)

This software product will ensure TIA functionality for the previous drive systems not supported by STARTER. Drive ES Basic Maintenance will thus replace the current product Drive ES Basic.

Drive ES PCS 7 (APL Style or Classic Style)

Drive ES PCS 7 links the drives with a PROFIBUS DP interface into the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system, and it requires that SIMATIC PCS 7, V6.1 and higher has first been installed. Drive ES PCS 7 provides a block library with function blocks for the drives and the corresponding faceplates for the operator station, which enables the drives to be operated from the PCS 7 process control system. From V6.1 and higher, drives will also be able to be represented in the PCS 7 Maintenance Station.

From Drive ES PCS 7 V8.0 and higher, two versions of the library are available: The APL (Advanced Process Library) variant and the previous version in the so-called Classic Style.

Detailed contents of the Drive ES PCS 7 (APL Style or Classic Style)

• Function block library for SIMATIC PCS 7 Faceplates and control blocks for SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES VC and MC, as well as MICROMASTER/MIDIMASTER of the third and fourth generation and SIMOREG DC-MASTER and SINAMICS
• STEP 7 slave object manager for convenient configuration of drives and non-cyclic PROFIBUS DP communication with the drives
• STEP 7 device object manager for convenient configuration of drives with PROFINET?IO interfaces (V8.0 SP1 and higher)
• SETUP program for installing the software in the PCS 7 environment