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This document describes how to use the device catalogs provided by EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin.

Validity Note

This document has been updated for the release of EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin V2.1.

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Product Related Information

 WARNING
LOSS OF CONTROL
  • Perform a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), or equivalent risk analysis, of your application, and apply preventive and detective controls before implementation.
  • Provide a fallback state for undesired control events or sequences.
  • Provide separate or redundant control paths wherever required.
  • Supply appropriate parameters, particularly for limits.
  • Review the implications of transmission delays and take actions to mitigate them.
  • Review the implications of communication link interruptions and take actions to mitigate them.
  • Provide independent paths for control functions (for example, emergency stop, over-limit conditions, and error conditions) according to your risk assessment, and applicable codes and regulations.
  • Apply local accident prevention and safety regulations and guidelines.1
  • Test each implementation of a system for proper operation before placing it into service.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

1 For additional information, refer to NEMA ICS 1.1 (latest edition), Safety Guidelines for the Application, Installation, and Maintenance of Solid State Control and to NEMA ICS 7.1 (latest edition), Safety Standards for Construction and Guide for Selection, Installation and Operation of Adjustable-Speed Drive Systems or their equivalent governing your particular location.

 WARNING
UNINTENDED EQUIPMENT OPERATION
  • Only use software approved by Schneider Electric for use with this equipment.
  • Update your application program every time you change the physical hardware configuration.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

For reasons of Internet security, for those devices that have a native Ethernet connection, TCP/IP forwarding is disabled by default. Therefore, you must manually enable TCP/IP forwarding. However, doing so may expose your network to possible cyberattacks if you do not take additional measures to protect your enterprise. In addition, you may be subject to laws and regulations concerning cybersecurity.

 WARNING
UNAUTHENTICATED ACCESS AND SUBSEQUENT NETWORK INTRUSION
  • Observe and respect any and all pertinent national, regional and local cybersecurity and/or personal data laws and regulations when enabling TCP/IP forwarding on an industrial network.
  • Isolate your industrial network from other networks inside your company.
  • Protect any network against unintended access by using firewalls, VPN, or other, proven security measures.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

Consult the Schneider Electric Cybersecurity Best Practices for additional information.

EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin is a simulation and emulation software suite to create digital models of real machines to start the virtual design, virtual pre-commissioning, and to support co-development before building the machine – thus enabling parallel engineering of mechanical, electrical and controls work assignments.

The simulation, emulation and machine visualization functions of EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin are intended to support you in developing your application and its configuration by simulating the behavior of the various machine or process components. These functions are not intended to substitute for, but to complement the processes of risk assessment, risk evaluation, validation, and commissioning as well as any ancillary processes, tasks, and obligations according to the applicable regulations and standards such as ISO/EN 13849 and IEC 62061. The product, though powerful, does not, nor can it, simulate every aspect of the application and its environment.

 WARNING
INSUFFICIENT TEST COVERAGE
  • Do not use EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin as the sole means for risk assessment, risk evaluation, validation, and commissioning as well as any ancillary processes, tasks, and obligations according to the applicable regulations and standards such as, but not limited to, ISO/EN 13849 and IEC 62061.
  • Verify and validate your results on the intended equipment before placing your machine or process into service.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

Based on the system configuration and operation, a hazard and risk analysis must be conducted for the system (for example, according to ISO 12100 or ISO 13849-1) independent of the work with EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin. The results of this analysis must be considered when designing the machine, and subsequently applying safety-related equipment and safety-related functions. The results of your analysis may deviate from any digital models of physical machines that you may create. For example, additional safety components may be required. In principle, the results from the hazard and risk analysis have priority.

 WARNING
NON-CONFORMANCE TO SAFETY FUNCTION REQUIREMENTS
  • Specify the requirements and/or measures to be implemented in the risk analysis you perform.
  • Verify that your safety-related application complies to applicable safety regulations and standards.
  • Make certain that appropriate procedures and measures (according to applicable sector standards) have been established to help avoid hazardous situations when operating the machine.
  • Use appropriate safety interlocks where personnel and/or equipment hazards exist.
  • Validate the overall safety-related function and thoroughly test the application.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

Catalogs contain important data, parameters and operational aspects of the devices defined within. This information is subject to change over time for a variety of reasons. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain the relationship between the models you create and the catalogs you have used to do so. Version mismatches of catalogs may cause your models to operate in ways that are incongruent with the equipment they represent and may lead to errors in design and operation.

 WARNING
UNINTENDED EQUIPMENT OPERATION
  • Impose a system of file name conventions that readily indicate the version of the catalogs you use and models you create.
  • Create documentation that records catalog and model versions, as well as firmware versions of the equipment used in your models.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

In addition, changes to your underlying application (logic, data address, functions, I/O configurations, device types and configuration, etc.) can have serious impact on the models you have created.

 WARNING
UNINTENDED EQUIPMENT OPERATION
  • Update your models every time you modify your application or change the physical hardware configuration.
  • Verify that objects you have created in your models are coherent with the modifications and/or changes you have made to your application and that they are associated with the correct variables.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

It is also important to connect to the correct automation logic/motion controller in a networked, multi-controller environment.

 WARNING
UNINTENDED EQUIPMENT OPERATION
Verify that you have connected to the intended automation controller.
Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

It is important to manage the amount of data that is transmitted between your automation logic/motion controller and EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin. Large amounts of data, or data that is not contiguous in the controller memory may impact performance of EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin, the controller or both.

Information on Non-Inclusive or Insensitive Terminology

As a responsible, inclusive company, Schneider Electric is constantly updating its communications and products that contain non-inclusive or insensitive terminology. However, despite these efforts, our content may still contain terms that are deemed inappropriate by some customers.

Terminology Derived from Standards

The technical terms, terminology, symbols and the corresponding descriptions in the information contained herein, or that appear in or on the products themselves, are generally derived from the terms or definitions of international standards.

In the area of functional safety systems, drives and general automation, this may include, but is not limited to, terms such as safety, safety function, safe state, fault, fault reset, malfunction, failure, error, error message, dangerous, etc.

Among others, these standards include:

Standard

Description

IEC 61131-2:2007

Programmable controllers, part 2: Equipment requirements and tests.

ISO 13849-1:2023

Safety of machinery: Safety related parts of control systems.

General principles for design.

EN 61496-1:2020

Safety of machinery: Electro-sensitive protective equipment.

Part 1: General requirements and tests.

ISO 12100:2010

Safety of machinery - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction

EN 60204-1:2006

Safety of machinery - Electrical equipment of machines - Part 1: General requirements

ISO 14119:2013

Safety of machinery - Interlocking devices associated with guards - Principles for design and selection

ISO 13850:2015

Safety of machinery - Emergency stop - Principles for design

IEC 62061:2021

Safety of machinery - Functional safety of safety-related electrical, electronic, and electronic programmable control systems

IEC 61508-1:2010

Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems: General requirements.

IEC 61508-2:2010

Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems: Requirements for electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems.

IEC 61508-3:2010

Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems: Software requirements.

IEC 61784-3:2021

Industrial communication networks - Profiles - Part 3: Functional safety fieldbuses - General rules and profile definitions.

2006/42/EC

Machinery Directive

2014/30/EU

Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive

2014/35/EU

Low Voltage Directive

In addition, terms used in the present document may tangentially be used as they are derived from other standards such as:

Standard

Description

IEC 60034 series

Rotating electrical machines

IEC 61800 series

Adjustable speed electrical power drive systems

IEC 61158 series

Digital data communications for measurement and control – Fieldbus for use in industrial control systems

Finally, the term zone of operation may be used in conjunction with the description of specific hazards, and is defined as it is for a hazard zone or danger zone in the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) and ISO 12100:2010.

NOTE: The aforementioned standards may or may not apply to the specific products cited in the present documentation. For more information concerning the individual standards applicable to the products described herein, see the characteristics tables for those product references.