System

License

Licenses may be excluded from the project under the following conditions:

Number	Context	Exclusion option
TC1200	PLC project	/
TF2000	TwinCAT HMI	Remove manually from the license list and do not use a TwinCAT HMI server. Not recommended, as PlasticApplication is primarily designed for TwinCAT HMI.
TF5000	Electric NC axes	Removing NC task under MOTION.
TF5050	Electric NC transformer axes	Removing NC transformer axes from the PLC.
TF5810	Hydraulic axes	Remove the hydraulic axes from the PLC. The Tc3_PlasticBaseApplicationElectric library avoids a required reference
TF8540	Temperature control	Remove the instance of `FB_Temperature` from the project.
TF8550	Plastic HMI Controls	Remove manually from the license list and do not use any Plastic NuGet packages in the HMI.
TF8560	Plastic technology functions	Remove all TF8560 axes and machine data components. The license can only be avoided if individual FBs of `Tc3_PlasticBaseApplication` (such as HMI interfaces) are used selectively. Notice Classes such as `FB_Temperature` and `FB_BaseRuntime` use machine data and therefore cannot be used without a license.

Tasks

The four created tasks follow the following strategies:

AdministrativeTask - General control tasks of medium priority

Standard cycle time: 10 ms
Calling the HMI <> PLC Recipe communication
Storage and loading routines
Communication commissioning tool of hydraulic axes
Cyclic processing of application routines like: manual functions, process sequence, etc…

MotionTask - Real-time critical routines

Standard cycle time: 2 ms (= NC task)
Cycle methods of the motion axes
Internal control mechanisms

TemperatureTask - Inertial temperature control

Standard cycle time: 25 ms
Calling the temperature control

SimTask -Simulation

Standard cycle time: 2 ms
Calling the cycle methods of the simulation

Notice

Correct cycle time for temperature control

The cycle time of the temperature control should be asynchronous to the frequency of the AC supply voltage. A synchronous cycle time promotes instability of the control!

Real time

In principle, systems from TwinCAT 3 platform level 50 Performance Plus are the minimum requirement for the PlasticApplication. The PLC tasks can be split according to the number of cores and the single core performance of the CPU. For development systems, the project configuration can be adopted; for end devices, the following configurations have been tested in the field:

CP/ IPC / CX	BMM	EXTR	TEMP
CP2219-1025-0030 (video) CP3219-1025-0030	✅
C6030 (Basis)
CX2043
CX2033	🆗 Avoid integrating many other axes Avoid high ADS query rates	✅
CX5340
C6015-0030
CX5240	❌	🆗 - Not for new projects	✅

✅ - Recommended without restrictions
🆗 - Recommended with restrictions
❌ - Not recommended

Type system

The Type System contains the used EventClasses. These EventClasses contain the respective events that are used in the Plastic Application.