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About this chapter
This chapter explains the presentation of the two tools used for IEC 61850 station engineering.
The PCM 600 and CCT tool.
1 PCM 600 and CCT tool set for station engineering
PCM 600 and CCT are state of the art tool sets based on Microsoft.net technology.
The two tools are able to do the station configuration tasks as defined by IEC 61850–6. They are doing it for the IED and subnetwork configuration in a plant structure and in a communication structure by PCM 600. The signal engineering which is defined by the DataSets, the report con-trol blocks and the GOOSE messages is done with the CCT.
PCM 600 is a tool which supports in itself the tasks needed to do IEC 61850 station engineering but it is also the platform for several sets of tool components used to support IED engineering for ABB IED product families. This manual describes the IEC 61850 station configuration task only.
It is requested to use the IED engineering guide manuals in addition when ABB IEDs are part of the IEC 61850 based station project.
The description of the PCM 600 is limited in most cases to the part needed for IEC 61850 station configuration.
The CCT is a tool which is used by ABB as a base product for signal engineering of several pro-tocols. This version of CCT is also limited to the tasks needed to do signal engineering for IEC 61850 protocol. The precondition to use CCT is that the plant structure with the IEDs and the communication structure is build by PCM 600. See chapter 3 "IEC 61850 Station configuration tasks" for a description of the general tasks for IEC 61850 station configuration by using PCM 600 and CCT.
2 PCM 600 views and windows
The PCM 600 tool set runs under the operating system Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It is ex-pected that the user is familiar with the handling and use of the Windows platform. In this chap-ter only those items are explained and shown which are specific to PCM 600 but still based on Microsoft windows methods.
When you start PCM 600 and no project is already selected you will get an empty window with the base menubar and toolbar only. Once you have selected a project, you will be given the pos-sibility to select different views. The start menu of a project may look like the menu shown in the figure below.
Figure 16: PCM 600: base screen example
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Project Explorer
&
Object Types
Object Properties
Output & Logging
Place for
selected tool
Menubar & Toolbar
Figure 17: PCM 600: base menubar
Possible views:
• Project Explorer
• Object Properties
• Output
• Object Type Project Explorer
The Project Explorer window is the skeleton of the project organization. It is used to show the project in two different structures:
• the plant structure
• the communication structure
The plant structure is the most commonly used view and shows the organization of the stations in the geographical order top down from a defined highest level (e.g. the network control center (NCC)) down to each IED logically connected to a bay in the station. The plant structure is used to select the tools per IED.
The communication structure is not needed for normal operation. It is used to view the commu-nication network and links from the PCM 600 to each IED. Only the private commucommu-nication from the PCM 600 to each IED is managed and handled by the PCM 600.
To select the communication structure do a right mouse click on the area next to the Plant Struc-ture tab. Select communication and an additional page will be included which shows the com-munication structure of the PCM 600
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Object Properties
The Object Properties window is a standard Microsoft window which allows the user to view and when needed to modify properties of the selected object. In the PCM 600 frame this window is used by some tools like GDE to insert the IP address of the IED selected and some other erties like object naming in the HMI picture and so on. It might be necessary to check some prop-erties for communication to adapt and synchronize the communication network. The shown properties in the object properties window follow the selected object in the Project Explorer or in a tool.
Figure 19: PCM 600: Object properties window
Modifications are only possible in cells with their content shown in bold. Renaming of objects can be done more easily by using the Rename capability in the plant structure, which is made available by pressing the right mouse button.
Output
The Output window is shown on the bottom array of the PCM 600 screen when selected. It is a log script which is used by PCM 600 to list all activities, warnings, error messages etc. which come up during operation of the PCM 600. It might be needed and used when a task does not operate as expected. The information in the output list may provide a clue as to why it does not operate etc. The Output view is not needed for normal operation and can be closed.
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Figure 20: PCM 600: Output window Object Type
Figure 21: PCM 600: Object Type window
The window Object Type can be used to build up a plant structure using drag and drop and se-lecting the object type from the list of possible objects. It is opened in the same place and then the Plant Structure is presented. It is selected by clicking on the Object Types tab at the bottom of the window.
The Object Type window contains some different panes depending on selected structure. For the plant structure view the two panes are selectable by clicking the menubar General or Transmis-sion IED”.
More details to different views etc. are given in chapter 5 "Set up a project in PCM 600".
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IED tools
These tools are not used for IEC 61850 station configuration.
Each started IED tool will be visible in the residual screen area surrounded by the three windows Plant Structure, Object Properties and Output. For normal operation only the Plant Structure is needed and it is recommended to close the other two windows. More then one tool can be open at the same time for one IED or for some IEDs in parallel. But only one tool at a time is active.
The tool is selected either by its tool tab or by selecting the IED.
See the IED engineering guide manuals for more derails.
2.1 PCM 600 the toolbar and the mouse
For each IED 670 tool the PCM 600 basic menubar and toolbar is expanded by additional menu-lists and tool-icons. This is not given and needed for IEC 61850 station configuration. For more details see 'Engineering guide for IED 670 products'.
The right button of the mouse is supported. Clicking the right mouse button opens a context sen-sitive menu. This menu presents all possible actions and selections corresponding to the selected object.
Figure 22: PCM 600: Conditional selection by the right mouse button
Depending on selection as given in this example the alternative choice could be to select New....
In this case a new window will pop up and it shows the same selection possibilities.
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Figure 23: PCM 600: New object selection window
The window keeps open after your selection. Depending on the selected object it will show di-rectly the possible choices.
Save tool engineering results
PCM 600 stores additions and changes in the plant and communication structure direct in its da-tabase. This function is not needed for IEC 61850 station configuration.
The PCM 600 stores all changes for which it is responsible directly in the database. This is useful because these changes are only of type organization and have no influence on IED data. Chang-es, additions etc. done within a tool are only moved to the project database when they are saved.
This possibility is context sensitive and will be displayed in the PCM 600 base menu bar under File when a tool has the ability to save.
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Figure 24: PCM 600: Save tool result window Cut, copy, paste, drag and drop
PCM 600 supports these functions where possible and useful. Depending on what it is and where it is inserted as a copy a request to rename the object may appear. It is indicated as “copy of... ” until it is given a unique name.
All other possibilities are self explanatory or Microsoft Windows standard.
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3 PCM 600 options for operation
The options can be selected from the menulist Tools>Options. A pop up window will be dis-played showing the entry point for the four different options. The four option windows are:
1. Log Configuration
• to organize the log file which is produced during the sessions and shown in the Output view of PCM 600
2. Category Manager
• allows the definition of user groups with different rights to work with PCM 600 according to their need and task.
3. System Settings
• specifies the basic decision about access rights for PCM 600 by the authen-tication method
4. User Manager
• is used to edit the list of persons or users which can use PCM 600 when an authentication method is selected
3.1 PCM 600 access
The set up and the possibilities to organize PCM 600 access can be seen as a branch with three basic alternatives. For each of the three alternatives you have to set up information in the user manager and select a user category out of the list described by the category manager.
Changes in the System Settings, Category Manager and User Manager can only be done by a user of the category type “System Engineer”.
The used alternative is selected in the Authentication. Select the System Settings window to choose the authentication.
Figure 25: PCM 600: Set authentication window Set Data Access Password
This password is used to control access to the MSSQL$PCMSERVER. It is recommended not to enter a password when several users have access to PCM 600. Only a single user with his own PC may use this.
PCM 600 must be reinstalled and all projects will be lost if this password is not available!
User authentication
The tasks and action in each branch can be sorted like this:
1. Use Authentication
• NO = no selection. Everybody can use the PC where this PCM 600 is in-stalled.
• YES = Authentication is used. Select the method with one of the two choices:
2. PCM Authentication or 3. Windows Authentication Select the User manager.
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Figure 26: PCM 600: User profile window
The User Manager window has four input fields. Three of them are used to define the access for a user for either PCM or Windows authentication. The field Real Name might be used to identify the user, when the user name is a short version of his name.
The PCM authentication uses the following inputs to identify a user:
• User Name
• Set Password (optional)
• User Category. The user category is defined in the category manager. It belongs to the user name and is not part of the authentication check.
The Windows authentication uses the following inputs to identify a user:
• User Name
• Windows Account.
• User Category. The user category is defined in the category manager. It belongs to the user name and is not part of the authentication check.
• Set Password is not used!
PCM authentication
When the PCM authentication method is used a Login window pops up after start of PCM 600.
The user has to identify himself with his user name and the password when it is used for access control.
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Figure 27: PCM 600: Login window
Rules to set a password:
• can not be empty
• is at least 8 characters long
• contains at least one special character (like ! , \, &, etc.)
• starts and ends with an alphabetic character
• contains at least one number
• contains at least one uppercase character
• contains at least one lowercase character Windows authentication
In the Windows authentication method each user must have a different account on this PC. Only in this case a selective input is possible. In this case the user has already identified himself to the PC, when he started Windows. So a separate access control is not needed.
A user can change his password, by entering his old password once, and then the new password twice. The system engineer can change passwords without knowledge of the old passwords.
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Figure 28: PCM 600: User window with password setting Category Manager
Different categories of default user are defined for PCM 600:
• System Engineer
- has access to all tools and functions
- is the only one who can edit user management
• Application Engineer
- has access to all tools for engineering the IEDs
- has access to the system monitoring tools to check during commissioning phase the correct operation of the IED
- has no user management rights
• System Monitoring User
- has access to the system monitoring tools to monitor the IEDs during opera-tion
- has no access to the engineering tools - has no user management rights
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Figure 29: PCM 600: Category manager window
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4 Connectivity package support for PCM 600
PCM 600 is a tool which allows the user to include the engineering tool components for product families of ABB for transmission and distribution. In the way you are using ABB products it might be that you will have several sets installed using the concept of connectivity packages.
How to install a new product package or to add an additional communication protocol is de-scribed in the documentation for PCM 600.
To engineer the ABB IED 670 product family you must have enabled the use of these tools and protocols in the connectivity package manager. Please check that before you may start the PCM 600.
Figure 30: Connectivity manager: version selection window
Always use the latest version of a tool package or protocol. This can be easily done in the menubar Set Latest.
In the above Connectivity Package Manager window the following packages are available
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- It will be used to include the ied.ICD file of bay IEDs in the station.SCD file.
- It will be used, when the DRH tool is used to read the DR files from all IEDs running the IEC 61850 protocol. See IED engineering guide manual for more details about the disturbance report handler (DRH).
• IEC 61850 Connectivity Package
- This package is needed for IED 670 products, which communicate with PCM 600 on Ethernet, TCP/IP and using elements of the IEC 61850 proto-col.
• LON Connectivity Package
- This package is not needed for IED 670 products. It is used for products us-ing LON to communicate with PCM 600.
• IED 670 Connectivity Package
- This package is needed in the latest revision to engineer IED 670 products.
It contains the description of the IED 670 products.
• SPA Connectivity Package
- This package is not needed for IED 670 products. It is used for products us-ing SPA to communicate with PCM 600.
5 PCM 600 Set up communication link per IED 670
The communication between the IED 670 and the PCM 600 is independent of the used IEC 61850 communication protocol within the substation. It can be seen as a second channel for communication.
When an additional link from PCM 600 to the IED 670 is requested see 'Engineering guide for IED 670 products'.
The IP address used for the Ethernet channel with IEC 61850 protocol has to be filled in by the PST tool as part of IED 670 engineering.
5.1 PCM 600 Set up communication link per Generic IEC 61850 IED
A Generic IEC 61850 IED (Gen-IED) can only communicate with the PCM 600 in the same way as the IED 670 products are when using the IEC 61850 protocol. That is only given for the dis-turbance file reading from the relays. The DRH tool is responsible for that task. For more details about the DRH tool see 'Engineering guide for IED 670 products'.
6 CCT views and windows
The CCT tool set runs under the operation system Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It is expected that the user is familiar with the handling and use of the Windows platform. In this chapter only those items are explained and shown which are specific for CCT but still based on Microsoft windows methods.
When you start CCT you will get a screen with the different panels but no contents. Once you have selected a project, you will get the possibilities to select different panels. The typical screen with an open project may look like shown in the figure below.
Figure 31: CCT: Base screen example
CCT has different panels (in PCM 600 called views). The wording panel is taken here because the CCT use it.
Possible panels:
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Menu- & Toolbar
Output & Log IEC 61850 Data Engineering Project
Navigator Control
&
Action
Properties
• basis and fix is the Menu and Toolbar
• Navigator panel
• Properties panel
• Output panel
• Column Visibility Control panel
• Actions panel (not used in this CCT version)
• the tool panel, which is the IEC 61850 Data Engineering Project Navigator
The Project Navigator shows the four sections in a SCL project in different levels of details. The known four sections are:
• Substation section
- for information only. Only the sequence: Station > Voltage level > Bay is shown
• Communication section
- for information only. Only the configured Subnetworks and their configured Access points are shown
• IED section
- the tree structure can be expanded from > to: IED > LD > LN > DO > DA including the full extension of complex data objects
- added DataSets, Report Control Blocks (RCB) and GOOSE Control Blocks are shown below the LN level when enabled to be included (normally below LLN0).
- the configured Data objects (DO) are listed with all their Data attributes in the Attribute Editor within the IEC 61850 Data Engineering pane
• Data Type Templates
- similar to the IED structure all existing LNodeTypes, DO Types, DA Types and Enum Types are shown in a tree structure.
- The LN Types and their DOs are listed in the Attribute Editor within the IEC 61850 Data Engineering pane. The structure of DO Types, DA Types and Enum Types is not shown in the Attribute Editor
Properties
The Object Properties window is a standard Microsoft window which allows to view and when needed to modify properties of the selected object. Due to the fact, that CCT operates only with the IED section properties should only be modified for the IED and the level below where useful and needed to be adopted. It has to be regarded, that most of the properties are under control of the configuration done by the station configurator PCM 600 or by the vendor of the IED.
This is also valid for changes done for example in the given IED naming. It must be known that changing the IED name has influence on the substation section which is not supported by the CCT. The station configurator PCM 600 has control over the station wide naming and
This is also valid for changes done for example in the given IED naming. It must be known that changing the IED name has influence on the substation section which is not supported by the CCT. The station configurator PCM 600 has control over the station wide naming and