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Basic Procedure for Configuring Hardware Window for Configuring Configuring a programmable controller involves the use of two windows: • The station window in which you place the racks for the station structure • The "Hardware Catalog" window from which you select the required hardware components, for example, racks, modules, and interface submodules.   Displaying the Hardware Catalog.   If the "Hardware Catalog" window is not displayed, select the menu command View > Catalog . This command toggles the display of the Hardware Catalog on and off. Basic Steps for Configuring a Station Independent of which structure a station has - you always configure using the following steps: 1. Select a hardware component in the "Hardware Catalog" window. 2. Copy the selected component to the station window using drag & drop. The following figure shows the basic operation: Layout of the Station Window The lower pa...

Introduction to Configuring Hardware. You configure the hardware in HW configuration. You can open HW configuration by selecting a station in the SIMATIC Manager and then double-clicking on the " Hardware " icon.   Configuring The term "configuring" refers to the arranging of racks, modules, distributed I/O (DP) racks, and interface submodules in a station window. Racks are represented by a configuration table that permits a specific number of modules to be inserted, just like a real rack. In the configuration table, STEP 7 automatically assigns an address to each module. You can change the addresses of the modules in a station if the CPU in the station can be addressed freely (meaning an address can be assigned freely to every channel of the module, independent of its slot). You can copy your configuration as often as you like to other STEP 7 projects, modify it as necessary, and download it to one or more existing plants. When the...