Seimens HMI Integration with SAP MII

[Former Member]

Dear MII Experts,

We are trying to integrate shop floor systems with SAP MII for discrete manufacturing industry.

I came across the client has 70+ machines in the plant .the vendor is "DMG"

Seimens HMI is installed on each machine .

What are the possible ways here to connect to PLC from MII

I am very new to this integration part .

Can MII directly connect to Seimens HMI .

I am very new to this area , client is ready to pay extra cost for any extra interfaces .

Please suggest me the architecture to follow .

Please give me a detailed explanation here , please correct me if I my explanation is wrong here

Please reply me for any other clarification

[salvatore_castro]

Omar,

Please submit the request to migrate the content to the SDN team so that they can bring it forward to the new platform.

Thanks,

Sam

[salvatore_castro]

You can also completely bypass the Siemens HMI widgets in favor of MII hosted HTML5 objects:

Sam

[OmarSaad]

Hi Salvatore,

Could u update the link here as its broken

Thanks

BR

Omar

[Former Member]

Hi Eswariah,

Siemens has Sinumerik HMI Programming Package which is an OPC Server. Please refer the product info on OPC foundation below:

http://www.opcfoundation.org/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?CM=1&RI=413&CU=1

You can pull up the data using SAP Pco which is an OPC client.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Baiju.

[former_member211944]

Hi Eswaraiah,

One of the way to connecting MII with PLC machines is explained in the following thread:

Regards,

Rohit Negi.

[Former Member]

Dear Rohit/Tufale

Thanks for the reply .

Actually I need to integrate CNC machines to SAP MII.

I wrongly posted as PLC machines, sorry for that.

Do you have any idea about CNC machines integration to MII ?

[Former Member]

Hi Eswar,

Thanks for the clarification.

I believe you have already posted a thread for CNC Machines Integration with MII. If it is the same query, then I would suggest you to close this thread to help other forum members find the right one

--Tufale Ashai.

[Former Member]

Hi Eswaraiah,

   To access the PLC data in MII, you would need couple of things more.

1. OPC Server where the PLC stores the data.

2. PCo (SAP Plant Connectivity) that can read the data from OPC Server and send the data to MII for manipulation.

From PCo MII can read the data and you can then perform your business logic. Also, PCo has built-in notification settings which can trigger MII's transactions based upon some conditions.

So I believe, your landscape would look like

Siemens HMI --> OPC Server  -> PCo --> MII

Check these out...

Regards

Tufale Ashai