MaintenanCE Suite. Technical Data. The MaintenanCE Suite HPC. A Maintenance Engineer s Tool

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1 MaintenanCE Suite Technical Data aintenance Suite is a comprehensive troubleshooting tool M designed for use in the maintenance of Allen-Bradley hardware. Developed for Microsoft Windows CE, MaintenanCE Suite includes tools to assist in the commissioning, maintenance and troubleshooting of Allen-Bradley programmable controllers, Allen-Bradley PanelView Standard operator terminals and Allen-Bradley SCANport devices and adapters. MaintenanCE Suite also provides a tool for viewing and marking up CAD drawings and the Rockwell Software Maintenance Terminal Explorer (RSMATE ) application manager. MaintenanCE Suite is delivered on a portable, flexible handheld PC (HPC), the Hewlett-Packard Jornada. The MaintenanCE Suite HPC The Jornada HPC includes all the standard commercial Microsoft Windows CE programs, such as Microsoft Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Outlook, Pocket Internet Explorer, and others, as well as a variety of HewlettPackard productivity applications. These commercial applications are stored in the HPC system ROM. On the MaintenanCE Suite HPC, system ROM has been customized to store some components of the MaintenanCE Suite in addition to the standard commercial applications. All applications stored in system ROM are persistent on the HPC, even in the event of lost battery power. This makes for easy recovery, since applications stored in system ROM never need to be re-installed. A Maintenance Engineer s Tool MaintenanCE Suite applications are designed to complement existing Rockwell Automation desktop PC software applications. The functions a maintenance engineer would most frequently use are included in MaintenanCE Suite applications, resulting in simple, task-oriented tools. Easy-to-use applications together with the portability of the HPC makes MaintenanCE Suite an ideal addition to the maintenance engineer s toolbox. Because the different applications in the MaintenanCE Suite communicate via standard Allen-Bradley communication protocols (serial DF1, DH485, DH+ ), they share built-in communication modules. This provides a common interface for setting up communication drivers and streamlines the amount of system resources used for communication.

2 Most file formats used in MaintenanCE Suite applications are the same as those used in the corresponding desktop versions, so files can easily be transferred from desktop to HPC and back to the desktop. The table below lists MaintenanCE Suite applications and the desktop applications they complement: Desktop MaintenanCE Suite File Format used in Application Application MaintenanCE Suite PanelBuilder32 PocketPFT.PVA (WinPFT Utility) RSLogix 500 PocketLogix.ACH (.RSS support coming soon) DriveTools, DriveExplorer Pocket DriveExplorer.DEV,.DEP RSWire, AutoCAD PocketPlans.CAD* *RSWire and AutoCAD.DXF and.dwg files are automatically converted to.cad format when copied from a desktop PC to the HPC using the PocketPlans ActiveSync filter. The MaintenanCE Suite Application Manager In addition to the desktop companion applications, MaintenanCE Suite also includes an application and project file manager. This tool is called RSMATE, the Rockwell Software Maintenance Terminal Explorer. RSMATE allows you to install, update and un-install MaintenanCE Suite applications and can backup and restore your application settings, making system recovery after any loss of data as straightforward as possible. RSMATE also handles launching of all suite applications, allows you to perform file searches on the HPC and provides virtual project management. RSMATE provides two views, a Windows Explorer-type (Explorer View) and a configurable quick launch (Quick Launch View). Explorer View Explorer View is the default view for RSMATE. Explorer View provides application-level access to MaintenanCE Suite tools in a Windows Explorertype interface. From Explorer View you can install and un-install MaintenanCE Suite applications, backup and restore application settings, view application revision information, launch applications and open recently used application files. You can organize project files, view project file information, perform file searches and view search results. You can also choose to automatically launch RSMATE when the HPC is reset. Install MaintenanCE Suite applications with the install wizard. Because new maintenance applications will be added to MaintenanCE Suite, RSMATE has an install wizard that handles the installation of new suite applications. When a new application is added to the suite, a Rockwell Install Script (.RIS) file is copied to the Rockwell-provided compact flash memory card. The install wizard searches the compact flash memory card for new Rockwell Install Script files, and performs installation for each file found. If you want to remove one of the maintenance applications from the HPC, RSMATE also has an un-install wizard that will remove it from the system. Backup and restore application settings. Because part of each MaintenanCE Suite application is stored in volatile system RAM, in the event of lost battery power some applications and custom settings will be lost. To prevent a complicated and lengthy restoration process, RSMATE has a built-in utility for backing up system settings. This utility, when used with the RSMATE install wizard, makes the recovery of MaintenanCE Suite applications and their settings quick and easy. View application revision information. When you select a MaintenanCE Suite application in the Rockwell Maintenance Tools list, application version information is displayed on the right-hand side of the screen, including application name, version number and copyright information. Additional information such as file location, size and attributes is also available. Launch applications and open recently used files. Easy access to applications and recently used files is a significant advantage with RSMATE. Rapid launching of applications can translate to preventing product loss or device failure. When immediate edits are needed in a project, quickly opening a specific file in its associated application is a necessity. Organize project files. The Projects folder is used to manage project files. You can add subfolders and links to application files to the Projects folder, making it easy to logically organize and access different types of files for one project. For example, you might create a new subfolder called Line 1 and add links to a PanelView project, one or more ladder 2

3 logic files and a drive parameter file to the new folder. While these files may be stored in different locations on your HPC, you now have links to all of them in one place through RSMATE. View project file information in Explorer View by selecting a project file in the Projects folder. Information such as file location, file size, date created and date modified is displayed for the selected file. You can also add application notes to your subfolders with extra information about a project or the files used for it. Launch suite applications. Launch MaintenanCE Suite applications with Quick Launch View by configuring a button to launch an application and Search for files on the HPC. RSMATE provides a system search utility, selecting the application to launch. a tool previously not available on the HPC, that gives you file search capability on the HPC. Search for a file or files by file name, file location, Open MaintenanCE Suite project files. Configure a button to open a file file size, or file date. Search results are displayed for quick and easy and select the file. When the quick launch button is tapped for a accessibility. MaintenanCE Suite project file, the appropriate MaintenanCE Suite application is launched and the file is opened. Open other types of files. Configure a button to open another type of application file, such as an HTML page, Pocket Word document or Pocket Excel spreadsheet. When the quick launch button is tapped, the appropriate application is launched and the file is opened. Launch other applications. Launch non-suite applications on your HPC by configuring a button to open a file and selecting the application.exe. When the quick launch button is tapped, the application will be launched. Automatically launch RSMATE. When the HPC is reset, by default RSMATE needs to be manually re-launched. A shortcut can be added to the Startup Programs folder on your HPC so that RSMATE is automatically launched after the HPC is reset. Quick Launch View Quick Launch View supplies quick, pre-configured access to files or applications on your HPC. In Quick Launch View, you can define and configure buttons to launch MaintenanCE Suite applications. You can also configure the buttons to open specific files. Initially, no buttons are configured for Quick Launch View, you must configure them. 3

4 PocketLogix PocketLogix, designed for maintenance of Allen-Bradley programmable controllers, is a companion application for RSLogix 500. PocketLogix leverages the familiar RSLogix user interface and feature set, while operating on a portable Windows CE-based HPC. Programmable controller applications created with any of the Rockwell Software 500-series programming packages can be maintained quickly and easily with PocketLogix. PocketLogix offers many of the same powerful diagnostic capabilities and easy-to-use editing as RSLogix. You can monitor application execution, modify data table value, force input and output states and perform both online and offline editing on controller applications. As with WinPFT, PanelBuilder32 projects must be saved in.pva file format in order to be transferred to a PanelView terminal with PocketPFT. Depending upon the PanelView model, PocketPFT can communicate with operator terminals via serial DF1, DH485 and DH+. PocketPlans PocketLogix has features that optimize viewing of ladder projects on the small HPC screen. Its tab interface allows easy access to the most-used troubleshooting features: ladder viewer, data table monitor and search/ cross-reference and compile results. You can zoom out for multiple rung contact state viewing and zoom in for single rung details and editing. After changes have been made to ladder files using PocketLogix, use Microsoft ActiveSync to set up auto-synchronization of edits to archived files. PocketPlans is a companion application for desktop CAD systems such as AutoCAD or RSWire. It allows you to take an electronic version of a CAD drawing into the field for validating and making corrections. Once back in the office you can update the drawing in the desktop CAD package without losing any information in the process. PocketPlans provides a convenient way to view electrical schematics, panel layouts, machine drawings and building plans on your HPC. With PocketPlans you can edit only the redline layer of the drawing. Other layers can be displayed, but the redline layer is the only one you can make changes on. Once you have marked up a drawing with PocketPlans, you can take the redline layer and incorporate it with the drawing in the desktop CAD package. In addition, PocketLogix has features in common with RSLogix. PocketLogix allows for full upload/download capabilities, and you can make time-critical changes online while the application is running. Rungs or instructions can be quickly added using the ASCII editor or with a graphical editor by using the Insert/Append menu items. PocketPFT PocketPFT (PanelView File Transfer) is a file transfer utility for PanelView Standard operator terminals, based on the WinPFT utility from Allen-Bradley PanelBuilder32 software. You can use PocketPFT to move files built with PanelBuilder32 between any PanelView Standard terminal and the MaintenanCE Suite HPC. Changeover PanelView configurations or download troubleshooting routines for equipment, read and write memory cards, and check, compare and replace application programs in a PanelView Standard terminal with PocketPFT. PocketPlans has a number of features designed to optimize the CAD drawing display on the small HPC screen. Zoom in to view details in the drawing, or zoom out to view the drawing in its entirety. Pan to view different areas of the drawing, and turn layers off and on as needed. You can also measure point-to-point distances or dimensions select the measurement tool and draw a line with the stylus. Distance from the start to the end of the line is displayed. 4

5 Pocket DriveExplorer Pocket DriveExplorer provides you with an intuitive means for online monitoring and configuring of your Allen-Bradley drives and communication adapters. Easy online programming, a familiar Windows Explorertype interface, and custom parameter views make Pocket DriveExplorer an ideal tool for simplifying drive start-ups. Pocket DriveExplorer allows you to create custom parameter views to monitor selected parameters from different drives and adapters on one screen. The flexible parameter save option allows full or partial parameter settings to be saved to a file for download and setup on another drive. Current parameter settings can easily be compared with factory defaults or with previously saved parameter values. Pocket DriveExplorer is the newest addition to the Allen-Bradley drive software family. Neither Pocket DriveExplorer nor its desktop counterpart, DriveExplorer, replaces DriveTools32, Allen-Bradley s high-performance drive software solution targeted at demanding applications requiring extensive computing power. Pocket DriveExplorer is meant to complement the drive software line by offering the most basic software on a portable, handheld device. The following table highlights the communications hardware required for Pocket DriveExplorer to communicate with Allen-Bradley products: The following table highlights the communications hardware required for Pocket DriveExplorer to communicate with Allen-Bradley products: 1305 AC Drive 1336 FORCE Drive 1336 IMPACT Drive 1336 REGEN Line Regeneration Package 1336 PLUS Drive 1336 PLUS II Drive 1336 SPIDER Drive 1397 DC Drive 1557 Medium Voltage AC Drive 2364 RGU DC Bus Regen Front End SMC Dialog Plus SMP-3 Overload Relay Bulletin 160 SSC AC Drive Networked Solutions Point-to-Point Solutions Serial Communication Module HPC Serial Cable 1203-GD2 or 1203-SNM adapter N/A 1203-GK2 or RS-232 Cable 1336-GM2 Smart Self-powered Serial Converter HPC Serial Cable 1203-SSS 1203-SNM adapter N/A 1203-SFC Serial Cable Assembly Serial Adapter HPC Serial Cable 160-RS1 N/A 1203-SNM adapter RS-232 Serial Cable Enhanced DeviceNet HPC Serial Cable Communication Module 1203-SNM adapter 1203-SFC Serial Cable Assembly 1203-GU6 or 1336-GM6 or DeviceNet Cables and accessories N/A 1203-GK5 or 1336-GM6, -GM5 and 1203-GK5 do not have serial ports; 1336-GM5 adapters and connected products can be accessed via a DeviceNet network if a 1203-GU6 is present ControlNet Communication Module HPC Serial Cable 1203-CN SNM adapter 1203-SFC Serial Cable Assembly N/A ControlNet Cables and accessories 5

6 Product Part Number 9501-MS01ENF MaintenanCE Suite Recommended Accessories Allen-Bradley PCMK Series B Data Highway access card (1784-PCMK/B) Socket low-power Ethernet cards (for use with PocketLogix) Proxim Wireless Ethernet cards (for use with PocketLogix) Hewlett-Packard VGA output cards index.html Additional compact flash memory cards (and PCMCIA adapter) Rockwell Software For more information on the latest pricing or a demonstration of any Rockwell Software package, please contact your local Rockwell Automation sales office or Allen-Bradley distributor. For the very latest on Rockwell Software products, visit us at: Rockwell Software Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. MaintenanCE Suite, RSMATE, PocketLogix, RSLogix, RSLogix 500, PocketPFT, PocketPlans, RSWire, and the Rockwell Software logo are trademarks of Rockwell Software Inc. PanelView, SCANport, Pocket DriveExplorer, DriveExplorer, DriveTools32, PanelBuilder32, and DH+ are trademarks of the Allen-Bradley Company. Microsoft, Windows, and ActiveSync are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged. Doc ID SUITE-TD001A-EN-P