Creating and Configuring IEDs

8.2.1 Overview

You can create new IEDs in several locations:

 In the IED Tree below a project.

 In the Typical Bay Tree, below a Bay (recommended for IEDs that have identical or nearly identical data, i.e. the usual Control and Protection IEDs of a Bay).

 In the Substation Tree, below a Substation, Voltage Level or Bay.

 In the HMI Tree (station-level IEDs only, like MicroSCADA SYS600 HMIs and COM500 NCC Gateways).

The next chapter describes how to create a generic new IED. Subsequent chapters de-scribe how to create new IEDs with a predefined role. There are also some special prop-erties which are available dependent the role (e.g. OPC servers for HMIs).

8.2.2 Create New IED

An IED can be created using either the Substation menu or in the Substation or IEDs navigation tree using the context menu.

1. In the Substation or IEDs menu, select the ‘IED’ button:

Alternatively, you can create an IED from the context menu in:

 a ‘Substation’, ‘Voltage Level’ or ‘Bay’ element in the ‘Substation’ tab, or

 the ‘Project’ element in the IED tree

Right-click the element -> the context menu for that element appears. Select ‘Create New IED’ -> ‘Other…’

2. This opens the dialog ‘Create New IED’.

3. The following steps describe the mandatory input fields:

 First, select the location for the new IED on the left hand side of the dialog. The location is the element under which the IED will be created.

 Depending on the previously selected location, IET600 proposes a name, which you can adapt according to your needs. Invalid names are indicated by an error mark (invalid names are usually either duplicate names or contain characters that are not allowed for a particular element).

 Select one of the available roles as primary role. If you started the dialog with a predefined role you cannot change the role here anymore.

4. Additionally, the dialog allows you to configure some further settings:

 The IED Type is set to “GENERIC” by default. You can adapt it according your needs.

 You can select the number of ports and configure individual ports, select the first tab, ‘Ports’. (Ports are required to design the communication configuration dia-gram. For more detailed information about port configuration, please consult chapter 10.4.1, “Configure Communication Properties”).

 For some IEDs, (e.g. MicroSCADA, Switches), you can configure Access Points.

To do so, select the second tab. You can add, remove or rename access points.

Note: At least one access point is required.

 To reduce the engineering time, IET600 allows you to use templates which con-tain predefined settings for the communication parameters. They are only avail-able if the primary role is already set. Also there aren’t templates for all roles. To apply a template perform following steps:

 In the section ’Available Templates‘, select a template.

 Click the arrow button to transfer the template settings to the IED. Note: Ap-plying the template will overwrite all current communication parameters. You can undo this action only by exiting the dialog with ‘Cancel’.

5. Depending on the selected primary role, there are other settings available. For more information see the following chapters which describe how to create IED with specific roles.

6. Click ‘OK’ to create the new IED or ‘Cancel’ to close the dialog without creating an IED.

7. If you created a new IED, the Navigation Tree will change to either the ‘Substation’

or ‘IEDs’ Tree.

8.2.3 Create New Protection/Control IED

This section describes the specific part of configuring a Protection or Control IED and is based on the general description for creating an IED (see 8.2.2, Create New IED):

1. Select the ‘Substation’ or ‘IEDs’ Navigation Tree, and select an element below which you want to create an IED. This could be:

 a ‘Substation’, ‘Voltage Level’ or ‘Bay’ element in the ‘Substation’ Tree

 the ‘Project’ element in the ‘IEDs’ tree

Right-click the element -> the context menu for that element appears. Select ‘Create New IED’ -> ‘Protection/Control IED…’:

2. This opens the dialog ‘Create new IED’.

3. To configure the general part, please see chapter 8.2.2, “Create New IED”.

4. In the section ‘Role Parameters’ -> tab ‘IED’, you can define if the IED is for protection and/or control.

8.2.4 Create New Switch

If you create a switch, IET600 will currently automatically generate its IEC-61850-model.

This section describes the specific part of configuring a switch and is based on the gen-eral description for creating an IED (see chapter 8.2.2, “Create New IED”):

1. Select the ‘Substation’ or ‘IEDs’ Navigation Tree, and select an element below which you want to create an IED. This could be either:

 a ‘Substation’, ‘Voltage Level’ or ‘Bay’ element in the ‘Substation’ Tree

 the ‘Project’ element in the ‘IEDs’ tree

Right-click the element -> the context menu for that element appears. Select ‘Create New IED’ -> ‘Switch…’:

The dialog 'Create new IED' will open.

2. To configure the general part please see chapter 8.2.2 (Create New IED).

3. In the section ‘Role Parameters -> Switch’ you can define the ‘RSTP priority’. Possi-ble values are root switch, backup switch or undefined.

4. When creating a switch, the ‘Ports’ table in the dialog contains the additional columns

‘MAU Type’* and ’Auto negotiation’. If ‘Auto negotiation’ is disabled a ‘MAU Type’*

should be selected. Configure them as needed.

“MAU” is an abbreviation for “Medium Attachment Unit”; it defines certain capabilities of a port. For a detailed explanation, please consult chapter 24, "Annex: Switch Con-figuration”24

8.2.5 Create New HMI

This section describes the specific part of configuring an HMI and is based on the general description for creating an IED (see chapter 8.2.2, “Create New IED”):

1. Select the ‘Substation’ or ‘IEDs’ Navigation Tree, and select an element below which you want to create an IED. This could be either:

 a ‘Substation’, ‘Voltage Level’ or ‘Bay’ element in the ‘Substation’ Tree

 the ‘Project’ element in the ‘IEDs’ tree

Right-click the element -> the context menu for that element appears. Select ‘Create New IED’ -> ‘HMI…’:

2. This opens the ‘Create new IED’ dialog.

3. To configure the general part please see chapter 8.2.2 (“Create New IED”).

4. In the section ‘Role Parameters -> HMI’ you can specify one or several OPC servers which run on the HMI you are creating. To create or remove an OPC server right-click in the OPC server table and choose ‘Insert new OPC server’ resp. ‘Delete OPC server(s)’:

For each created OPC server there will be created automatically a new access point on the HMI. As other access points this access points also appears in the “Access Point” tab.

8.2.6 Create an IED in a Typical Bay

The procedure for creating a typical IED is quite similar to creating a stand-alone IED.

But there are only some selected IED roles available:

5. Select the ‘Typical’ menu tab and select ’Typical IED‘:

Alternatively, select the ‘Typicals’ Navigation Tree, and right-click on the Bay under which you want to create an IED.

Right-click the element -> the context menu for that element appears. Select ’Create New Typical IED‘:

6. This opens the dialog ’Create new IED’.

7. To configure the Typical IED follow the instructions in chapter 8.2.2 (Create New IED).

8.2.7 Configure IEDs

Already created IED can be configured:

1. Select the IED you want to configure in:

 ‘Typicals’ Navigation tree

 'Substation' Navigation tree

2. Right-click the IED -> the context appears. Select ‘Configure IED…’:

3. This opens the ‘Configure IED’ dialog:

4. You can now reconfigure the IED. In contrast to the ‘Create IED’ procedure (see Chapter 8.2.2, Create New IED), some input fields are disabled or have more re-stricted selection range:

 The IED location is fixed.

 The primary role and also further roles of the IED cannot be changed (for more detailed information see chapter 8.1.1, IED Roles).

 Additional Role parameters can be set, e.g. in the above example, you can check the ‘Protection’ flag to define an IED specifically as ‘Protection IED’

5. Click ‘OK’ to adopt the changes or ‘Cancel’ to reject all changes.