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16 K-Chief 700
16.02.02 System Overview Maintenance

Ref:
Document name: Kongsberg K-Chief 700 Product Description
Document nr: 304844/B
Document name: Kongsberg K-Chief 700 Operator Manual (rel. 8.2)
Document nr: 332618/A
Document name: AIM 8.3 User Guide
Document nr:

DMS no: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Objectives

• Be familiar with the naming and abbreviations of the automation

control system
• To obtain knowledge about the different hardware units in the
system and how they are connected
• To learn how to monitor the status of the hardware units by
using System Status image and Station Explorer view on the
operator station
• Repetition of some tools from basic course

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AIM 2000 hardware components

Administrative OS OS/HS
network C

Network A

Network B

RCU RCU

RIO Sensors
and
Safe area
actuators
FS

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Operator station

Main interface between the operator and the process

Monitor
The operators “eye” into the process

Panels
Specific panels for simplified operator communication

MP7900 computer

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OS Panels

BU-AUT Panel

ALC Panel

Input Panel

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Field Station

Interface between the control system

and the physical equipment
• RCU
• RIO units

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R-BUS solution
RIO MODULES

RCU501

RHUB200

BUS-Term

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Process Station

Remote Controller Unit (RCU) is a real-time single board

computer and remote IO bus driver

RCU 501 is based on PowerPC Host Processor MPC 8245

running at 400MHz

64 MB RAM, 16 MB Flash memory

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Stahl RIO solution

OS

Safe area RCU PS

Profibus

Stahl
εx
units

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Profibus/Stahl solution

CPM
Remote IS units

Isolator

Stahl I.S.1 cabinet εx

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Function Module: Main Parts

Unique Tag Name

Operation
Menu on the Module menu
left trackball on right
button trackball button
(or left click (or right click
on the mouse) on the mouse)

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Navigation in K-Chief 700

• Six buttons for easy navigation

in the toolbar
• Use the navigator to go to
different images in the system

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Navigation Using the Module Context Menu

• From Module
• Using Find Tag

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Alarms

Dynamic Alarm Page

• * indicates an unacknowledged alarm
• Use TBI for quick navigation to Process Image

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Alarm Settings

To configure alarms: open Alarm limits from the Module Context Menu

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Configuration Events

• Open Configuration Events from Tools

• Green; saved changes
• Blue; not saved changes
• Red; lost changes
• Black; information

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System Status

Toolbar:
Shows HW, loading and backup status

Coloured cells indicate errors

Additional pages can be chosen by tabs

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System Status - PS Backup

Store PS Configuration
• Alarm Changes
• IO Changes

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System Status – Net Status

Use Net Status to locate Static page – right click to get

network problems updated data

• Net A
• Net B
• RedNet

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Station Explorer

To open:
• Tools, Station Explorer
• Right-click in Station Status view on selected PS

Properties dialog box, for displaying the software and

hardware status of the selected PS

IO Block dialog box, for displaying the information on a

selected IO block and its IO points

Module context menus, for displaying information of the

selected module

IO Manager dialog box, for displaying the status of the

IO drivers, IO objects and IO blocks for a selected
station

Driver Properties dialog box, for displaying the

configuration of the IO drivers of the system

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Show Connections

Tool for following signals through the system;

- shows where values on input terminals are “coming from”
and where values on output terminals are “going to”

The “arrow-buttons” indicates connections

between modules by
<TagName>/<TerminalName>

On selection the “Show Connection” view for

connected module (Tag) replaces current view
with highlighted Tag/Terminal from previous
view.
“IO-button” opens the “IO-Terminal
Block” view with selected IO-point
highlighted
Module menu
available on right click

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Module Modes: Exceptional Modes

Selected from module menu

The user may set the function module in

some exceptional operational modes;
- Turn off alarm reporting from the module.

- Set the module passive; none of the

modules functions will be executed,
all data/values is “frozen”.

The exceptional modes are indicated by

background colouring the tag mark or the
numeric measurement presentation

The colour convention for module mode are usually:

Disabled alarm (By Operator)

Suppressed Alarm (By Logic)

Passive Module

Input/Output terminal Disabled

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User Guide (Help)

Open the complete User Guide

Select the window, press F1 and a dialog

box with reference information is displayed

F1

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Exercises
• System Status
• Station Explorer
• Operation Repetition

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Summary

• System Topology
• System Status
• Station Explorer
• I/O
• Tools

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