The following electronic configuring aids and engineering tools are available for the SINAMICS G120D distributed inverters:
Selection guide, SD Configurator within the CA 01
More than 100,000 products with approximately 5 million possible product versions from the area of drive technology are listed in the Interactive Catalog CA 01 – the Offline Mall from Siemens IA&DT. In order to make it easier to select the optimum motor and/or inverter from the wide range of Standard Drives, the SD Configurator was developed, which is integrated as “Selection guide” in this catalog on the DVD with the selection and configuration tools.
Online SD configurator
In addition, the SD Configurator can now be used on the Internet without requiring any installation. The SD Configurator can be found in the Siemens Mall under the following address:
http://www.siemens.com/dt-configurator
SIZER Configuration Tool
MICROMASTER 4 drive family. It provides support when selecting the hardware and firmware components necessary to implement a drive task. SIZER supports the configuration of the complete drive system and allows simple single-motor drives up to complex multi-axis applications to be engineered. For SINAMICS G120D from SIZER Version 2.9 and higher.
STARTER Commissioning Tool
The STARTER commissioning tool allows menu-prompted commissioning, optimization and diagnostics. In addition to SINAMICS drives, STARTER is also suitable for MICROMASTER 4 units and the drive converters for the distributed I/O SIMATIC ET 200S FC and SIMATIC ET 200pro FC. For SINAMICS G120D from STARTER Version 4.1, SP1 and higher.
Engineering System Drive ES
Drive ES is the engineering system used to integrate the communication, configuration and data management functions of Siemens drive technology into the SIMATIC automation world easily, efficiently and cost-effectively. The STEP 7 Manager user interface forms the basis. A variety of software packages, i.e. Drive ES Basic, Drive ES SIMATIC and Drive ES PCS 7, are available for SINAMICS.