| Number of elements (total) |
4 000; Blocks (OB, FB, FC, DB) and UDTs |
| ● Number range |
1 ... 60 999; subdivided into: number range that can be industrial by the user: 1 ... 59 999, and number range of DBs created via SFC 86: 60 000 ... 60 999 |
| ● Size, max. |
2.5 Mbyte; For DBs with absolute addressing, the max. size is 64 KB |
| ● Number range |
0 ... 65 535 |
| ● Size, max. |
600 kbyte |
| ● Number range |
0 ... 65 535 |
| ● Size, max. |
600 kbyte |
| ● Size, max. |
600 kbyte |
| ● Number of free cycle OBs |
100 |
| ● Number of time alarm OBs |
20 |
| ● Number of delay alarm OBs |
20 |
| ● Number of cyclic interrupt OBs |
20; With minimum OB 3x cycle of 250 µs |
| ● Number of process alarm OBs |
50 |
| ● Number of DPV1 alarm OBs |
3 |
| ● Number of isochronous mode OBs |
2 |
| ● Number of startup OBs |
100 |
| ● Number of asynchronous error OBs |
4 |
| ● Number of synchronous error OBs |
2 |
| ● Number of diagnostic alarm OBs |
1 |
| — Isochronous mode |
Yes |
| — Direct data exchange |
Yes; Requirement: IRT and isochronous mode (MRPD optional) |
| — IRT |
Yes |
| — Dynamic Frame Packing (DFP) |
Yes |
| — PROFIenergy |
Yes; per user program |
| — Prioritized startup |
Yes; Max. 32 PROFINET devices |
| — Number of connectable IO Devices, max. |
128; In total, up to 512 distributed I/O devices can be connected via AS-i, PROFIBUS or PROFINET |
| — Of which IO devices with IRT, max. |
64 |
| — Number of connectable IO Devices for RT, max. |
128 |
| — of which in line, max. |
128 |
| — Number of IO Devices that can be simultaneously activated/deactivated, max. |
8; in total across all interfaces |
| — Number of IO Devices per tool, max. |
8 |
| — Updating times |
The minimum value of the update time also depends on communication share set for PROFINET IO, on the number of IO devices, and on the quantity of configured user data |
| — Isochronous mode |
No |
| — IRT |
Yes |
| — Dynamic Frame Packing (DFP) |
No |
| — PROFIenergy |
Yes; per user program |
| — Prioritized startup |
Yes |
| — Shared device |
Yes |
| — Number of IO Controllers with shared device, max. |
4 |
| — activation/deactivation of I-devices |
Yes; per user program |
| — Asset management record |
Yes; per user program |
| — PROFINET Security Class |
SNMP Configuration and DCP Read Only |
| ● Runtime license required |
Yes; "Small" license required |
| ● OPC UA Client |
Yes; Data Access (registered Read/Write), Method Call |
| — Application industrialation |
Yes |
| — Security policies |
Available security policies: None, Basic128Rsa15, Basic256Rsa15, Basic256Sha256 |
| — User industrialation |
"anonymous" or by user name & password |
| — Number of connections, max. |
4 |
| — Number of nodes of the client interfaces, recommended max. |
1 000 |
| — Number of elements for one call of OPC_UA_NameSpaceGetIndexList, max. |
20 |
| — Number of elements for one call of OPC_UA_MethodGetHandleList, max. |
100 |
| — Number of simultaneous calls of the client instructions for data access, per connection, max. |
5; for OPC_UA_MethodCall 50 in total (no limit per connection) |
| — Number of registerable nodes, max. |
5 000 |
| — Number of registerable method calls of OPC_UA_MethodCall, max. |
100 |
| — Number of inputs/outputs when calling OPC_UA_MethodCall, max. |
20 |
| ● OPC UA Server |
Yes; data access (read, write, subscribe), method call, alarms & condition (A&C), custom address space, role-based access control |
| — Application industrialation |
Yes |
| — Security policies |
available security policies: None, Basic128Rsa15, Basic256Rsa15, Basic256Sha256, Aes128Sha256RsaOaep, Aes256Sha256RsaPss |
| — User industrialation |
"anonymous" or by user name & password |
| — GDS support (certificate management) |
Yes |
| — Number of sessions, max. |
32 |
| — Number of accessible variables, max. |
50 000 |
| — Number of registerable nodes, max. |
10 000 |
| — Number of subscriptions per session, max. |
50 |
| — Sampling interval, min. |
100 ms |
| — Publishing interval, min. |
200 ms |
| — Number of server methods, max. |
500; max. 25 concurrently running jobs each for asynchronous instructions OPC_UA_ServerMethodPre and OPC_UA_ServerMethodPost |
| — Number of inputs/outputs per server method, max. |
20 |
| — Number of monitored items, recommended max. |
4 000; for 1 s sampling interval and 1 s send interval |
| — Number of server interfaces, max. |
10 of each "Server interfaces" / "Companion specification" type and 20 of the type "Reference namespace" |
| — Number of nodes for user-defined server interfaces, max. |
15 000 |
| ● Alarms and Conditions |
Yes |
| — Number of program alarms |
100 |
| — Number of alarms for system diagnostics |
50 |
This Industrial Automation Component is designed for industrial automation applications, offering reliable performance and compatibility with Siemens automation systems. Suitable for manufacturing, process control, and building automation environments.