SIEMENS Rockwell

SIMATIC S7-200, S7-300, S7-400, Automation

ABB S7-400H, S7-1200,
S7-1500, LOGO! ...
Allen-Bradley PLC-5,
AC 800M, AC 800PEC SLC 5/05, ControlLogix, ...

Ethernet Ethernet
MPI

Bachmann Profibus CODESYS

M1-System ABB, ELAU, Schneider Electric, ...
Ethernet
Ethernet Ethernet

Beckhoff MITSUBISHI
TwinCAT 2, TwinCAT 3 MELSEC

Ethernet
PLC Ethernet

B&R SIGMATEK
X20-System, ... C-IPC

Ethernet Ethernet

PLC ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer
Interfaces to various PLC systems
Ideally suited for system
­suppliers, service technicians
and control programmers

Fields of application
› Troubleshooting
› Locating sporadic errors
› Commissioning support
› Mobile use

Measurement Systems for Industry and Energy

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ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer

Measuring from the beginning

ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer offers the full ibaPDA
functionality with access to different PLCs. Without
additional hardware, this is an inexpensive way of
measuring, displaying and recording signals.

ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer is the ideal Free operand/symbol selection

entry-level solution as PC-­based The variable list of the PLC can At a glance
acquisition and recording sys- easily be imported in ibaPDA-­ › Measuring signals directly
tem for various measuring data PLC-Xplorer. All I/O signals and from a PLC
in automated processes. other operands from the PLC › Including interfaces for
programs can be measured. various PLCs
ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer enables the
Most of the ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer › Can be used without additi-
acquisition and recording of up to
interfaces support a convenient onal hardware and without
64 signals and offers data inter-
selection of signals based on their intervention in the PLC
faces to SIMATIC S7 systems as
symbolic names via address book. › Comfortable ­selection of
well as CODESYS-based systems,
Address books are generated in operands with a symbol
Allen-Bradley, ABB, B&R, Bach-
ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer and contain browser
mann, Beckhoff, Mitsubishi and
the available symbols. Depending › Up to 64 signals, including
­SIGMATEK systems. Hence, it
on the system the address book full ibaPDA functionality
is possible to read internal data › Signals to be m­ easured
is generated from the configura-
from the most common PLCs may be modified or enhan-
tion data or loaded directly from
without modifying the PLC itself. ced without programming
the PLC. The signals can easily
ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer offers an be selected by mouse click in or restart­ing the PLC
economical solution for trouble- the integrated symbol browser. system
› Including analysis with
shooting and commissioning and
If necessary, the selected sig­ ibaAnalyzer
is suitable for long-term analysis
nals may flexibly be c­ hanged › Data acquisition and
and process optimization as well.
without modi­f ying the PLC analysis simultaneously or
program. This flexibility offers independent
Access without additional many advantages especially
hardware or programming for mobile service support.
The inexpensive software solution
ibaPDA-PLC-­X plorer provides the Writing data to the controller
complete functionality of ibaPDA S7- and TwinCAT-Xplorer also
and is able to record 64 signals offer output modules. So it is pos-
from up to 16 independent PLCs sible to write data from ibaPDA
per PLC-Xplorer interface. The to the respective controllers.
PLC system can be accessed via
standard interfaces – usually Variable recordings
via Ethernet – without additional As known in ibaPDA, various
hardware. It is not necessary recording profiles can be defi-
to modify the PLC configura­ ned for different applications.
Convenient operand selection
tion nor to program the PLC. Continuous data recording of using a symbol browser
 ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer interfaces

S7-Xplorer B&R-Xplorer Logix-Xplorer

SIMATIC S7 syste­mes (LOGO! , S7- ®
B&R controllers 1
Allen-Bradley controllers Control­
200®, S7-300®, S7-400®, S7-400H®, Logix, GuardLogix, CompactLogix,
Bachmann-Xplorer
S7-1200®, S7‑1500®), WinAC (WinLC SoftLogix or Flex­Logix
RTX), PLCSIM Bachmann M1 controllers
SIGMATEK-Xplorer
AB-Xplorer CODESYS-Xplorer
SIGMATEK controllers
Allen Bradley controllers PLC-5 and CODESYS-V2- and CODESYS-V3-
based PLC systems
TwinCAT-Xplorer
SLC500, MicroLogix
Beckhoff-TwinCAT V2- and V3-
ABB-Xplorer MELSEC-Xplorer
controllers
AC 800M, AC 800PEC controllers Mitsubishi MELSEC controllers

Possible extensions ( subject to a fee)

Connection of drives and CNC controllers Connection of cameras

› SINAMICS-Xplorer also available as › ibaCapture
› SIMOTION-Xplorer } bundle Drive-Xplorer › Camera licenses on demand
› SINUMERIK-Xplorer

measurement files in iba format data acquisition and analysis are can automatically be done in
(*.dat) is necessary for long-term done separately, the files can order to save valuable time. With
analyses or process optimiza- be analyzed during recording the help of ibaDatCoordinator,
tions, and triggered recordings or at a later point in time, e. g. an analysis of the last file can
are useful when errors have to be by experts outside the plant. be started automatically, or
located. Trigger conditions can Since ibaAnalyzer can be used a report can be generated.
be defined time or event related. on several computers, several
Measurement files can also
With ibaHD-Server, data can be users may individually analyze
be processed automatically so
recorded without file boundaries the data according to their needs.
that, for example, the measu-
over very long periods of time. Data can centrally be stored
rement data is collected from
on a server or sent by email.
the acquisition systems and
Online display made available to all authorized
Automated analysis saves time
Due to the client server archi- users at a central location.
Once the evaluation criteria
tecture it is possible to display
have been defined, analyzing
the time curve of all signals live
on one client. For e­ xam­ple PLC
programmer or service techni-
cians can have their own view on
regions of their specific inter-
est - and of course as mobile
user with a laptop. Besides the
realtime trend graph, ibaPDA-­
PLC-Xplorer offers all views
known from ibaPDA like oscil-
loscope, FFT, or digital meter.

Free analysis included

Measurement files generated
by ibaPDA-PLC-­X plorer can be
analyzed using ibaAnalyzer2 which
is available free of charge. Since
ibaAnalyzer provides detailed display functions and broad options for ­a nalyzing and evaluating.

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Prerequisite: Installation and licensing of the B&R PVI-Manager, not included in the PLC-Xplorer license
2
ibaAnalyzer with free license when purchasing ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer
Reports at the push of a button ble in graduaded steps depending However, the connection of
Using ibaAnalyzer-Reportgenera- on the frame rate, and separate iba devices is not possible
tor, reports can automatically be camera licenses are needed for with ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer.
generated in various formats and video record­ing. Connecting one
individual layouts. Individual job camera is an inexpensive entry-­ Training program
reports, shift reports or product level solution to record videos The iba training program of-
reports for production, quality along with measuring data. fers a course „Measure­ment
management or controlling can
and data evaluation with the
be created in different formats
Licenses and extensions iba system“. During this 2-day
virtually at the push of a button.
The software ibaPDA-PLC-Xplo- training you learn the two-step
rer includes the inter­f aces S7- method for signal configuration,
Connecting data bases
Xplorer, AB-Xplorer, ABB-Xplorer, triggering and recording with
When the data shall be processed
B&R-Xplorer, Bachmann-Xplorer, ibaPDA as well as offline ana-
in a database, measuring data can
Codesys-Xplorer, Logix-Xplorer, lysis with ibaAnalyzer. In addition
be loaded into a database with
MELSEC-Xplorer, Sigmatek-Xplo- the training ­gives an overview of
­ibaAnalyzer-DB. It is also possi­
rer and TwinCAT-Xplorer, and the automatic report generation
ble to ana­lyze data from a data­
is de­signed to record 64 ana- using ibaDatCoordinator and
base with this application. The
main database formats are sup- log or digital sig­nals in total. ibaAnalyzer-Report­generator.
ported, like Microsoft SQL-Server, If 64 signals are not sufficient or You find more information re-
Oracle, IBM DB2-UDB, MySQL, other extensions are required garding the iba training under
PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access. in ibaPDA, the system can be www.iba-ag.com/training.
upgraded to a complete ibaPDA
Video surveillance system. All Xplorer interfaces System requirements
with ibaCapture are also available separately › Windows 8.1 (x86/x64), 10 (x86/
When launching the latest version for an existing ibaPDA system.
of ibaCapture, it is possible to x64), 11 (x64), Windows S
­ erver
connect ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer with It is possible to use ibaCapture, 2012 (x64), 2012 R2 (x64), 2016
an ibaCapture Server. Thus, mea- ibaHD-Server, ibaDaVIS or (x64), 2019 (x64), 2022 (x64)
suring data and video data can ibaAnalyzer-DB together with › PC, Multicore CPU 2 GHz,
be recorded synchronously. An ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer without up- 4 GB RAM, 100 GB HDD
ibaCapture Server license, availa- grading to the full ibaPDA version.

Order no. Name Description

30.681502 ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer ibaPDA system for 64 signals, 2 clients, 2 data recordings, standard
interfaces incl. the latest Xplorer interfaces
30.001900 Upgrade-ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer-Inter- Upgrade of an existing license ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer with the latest
faces Xplorer interfaces
30.770009 Upgrade-PLC-Xplorer to PDA-64 Upgrade to ibaPDA with 64 signals and PLC-Xplorer interface
31.001042 ibaPDA-Interface-PLC-Xplorer Extension license for an ibaPDA system with PLC-Xplorer interfaces
31.000030 ibaPDA-Interface-SINAMICS-Xplorer 1 Xplorer interface for SINAMICS drives
31.000031 ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer 1
Xplorer interface for SIMOTION systems
31.000033 ibaPDA-Interface-SINUMERIK-Xplorer 1 Xplorer interface for SINUMERIK CNC controls
31.001044 ibaPDA-Interface-Drive-Xplorer 1 Bundle of SINAMICS and SIMOTION-Xplorer interfaces
Brochure_ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer_v1.11_en 05/2022

61.000200 Measurement and data evaluation with 2-day training

the iba system
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The interfaces are not included in the ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer license, but can be licensed additionally.

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