Protection and Control IED Manager, 1MRS756272

January 26, 2007

PCM 600 Release Note Page  (8)

Handled by: Thomas Küng

PCM 600 Ver. 1.5

Release Note
Dear Reader We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.5 of the Protection and Control IED Manager,
PCM 600.

Application PCM 600 is the toolbox for the new Control and Protection IEDs. It covers process steps of the IED’s
life cycle, from the selection of an IED, engineering, testing, commissioning, operation and mainte-
nance to the support for function analysis after primary system faults. PCM 600 also supports the
new IEC 61850 standard.

Furthermore, PCM 600 supports such operating tasks as parameter setting and disturbance han-
dling of selected ABB IEDs of previous product generations. PCM 600 will gradually support a wider
range of existing ABB IED products.

Technical highlights PCM 600 meets your IED management needs

• Easy to adapt IEDs to power system requirements

• Supports bottom-up and top-down engineering with SCL import/export
• Signal matrix for simple I/O handling
• Layered parameter settings
• Full control of all updates
• Copy/paste of IED
• Project import export
• Advanced graphic configuration with display editor
• Support for IEC and ANSI IEDs
• Fast and reliable TCP/IP communication
• Automatic disturbance reporting
• On-line signal monitoring and event viewer

Distribution Automation Visiting Address Postal Address Telephone Internet

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Easy handling is provided by:

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• Latest Windows look and feel Application

• Intuitive handling – user friendliness Technical highlights

• On-line help
New features and
• Tool tips
enhancement
• Context sensitive menus and toolbars
Products supported in
• Filtering of accessible optimized parameters for different users
this release
Ordering and delivery
New features and PCM 600 Ver. 1.5 have been improved with following new features/ information
enhancement enhacement:
Documentation
• Import and export of one IED Installation
• Support for ANSI units and symbols
• Support for password protected IEDs Hardware and software
• Tool for managing users and passwords in the IED requirements
• Forced control of binary inputs and outputs Security recommenda-

• Impovements in Several User Interface, e.g. visibility of used tion

channels by signals in Signal Matrix

Known limitations and
supporting information

Products supported in this The IED support for PCM 600 is implemented by means of IED Connectiv-
release ity Packages, also called IED ConnPacks. The PCM 600 Ver. 1.5 release
supports RE_ 670. It should be noted that the features supported by the
IED may be different from those supported by the PCM 600.

Ordering and delivery This PCM 600 release is available in three versions: PCM 600, PCM 600
Information Engineering and PCM 600 Engineering Pro.

PCM 600

• Create projects
• Handle signal matrices
• Set parameters
• Monitor IEDs on-line
• Handle events and upload disturbance records
• Edit the IED HMI
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PCM 600 Engineering

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• PCM 600 base functionality Application

• Graphical application configuration of IED 670 products. Technical highlights

New features and

PCM 600 Engineering Pro
enhancement
• PCM 600 Engineering functionality Products supported in
• IEC 61850 communication configuration, including GOOSE this release
communication Ordering and delivery
information

PCM 600 Ver. 1.5 can be ordered as a separate product from ABB Oy, Documentation
Distribution Automation, Finland or from ABB Power Technologies AB, Installation
Sweden. For more information, please contact your local ABB sales
office. Hardware and software
requirements
Note! If you are upgrading from PCM 600 Ver. 1.1 (SP2) to PCM 600 Security recommenda-
Ver. 1.5, read technical limitations of this release or installation sheet tion
before you start to do upgrade.
Known limitations and
supporting information

Documentation The user documentation is supplied as on-line help in PCM 600. The
Installation procedures are described in the Installation Sheet included as
a PDF file on the product CD. For an overview of the functionality please
refer also to the PCM 600 Product Guide and the PCM 600 Brochure

Installation You start the installation of PCM 600 by running the installation program
(Setup.exe) from the product CD. Follow the instructions given by the
installation program. The installation procedure for the PCM 600 software
is described in the PCM 600 Installation sheet.

Note! If you are upgrading from PCM 600 Ver. 1.1 (SP2) to PCM 600
Ver. 1.5, read the Technical Limitations section “Project Management“ of
this release or the installation sheet before you start upgrading.

Please note that PCM 600 will be installed on the harddisk partition with
the largest free space.
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Hardware and software The supported operating systems are stated in the PCM 600 Installation
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requirements Sheet. The hardware requirements can also be found in the same docu-
Application
ment.
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The use of PCM 600 with a certain IED type requires that the corre-
sponding IED Connectivity Package has been installed. All the latest Sys- New features and
tem Connectivity Packages (before called Communication Connectivity enhancement
Package) can be found on the same product CD. The installation of the Products supported in
IED Connectivity Packages can be done from the appropriate Connectiv- this release
ity Package CD. Ordering and delivery
information
For limitations of the PCM 600 installation with regard to other software
products in the same PC, please refer to sections “Technical limitations of Documentation
this release” and “General”. Installation

Hardware and software

requirements
Security recommendation We recommend that you change the “Data access password” in order to
Security recommenda-
avoid unauthorized access to your project data from other workstations.
tion
You can change the password in the Tools/Options/System Settings view
of PCM 600.
Known limitations and
supporting information

Yours Faithfully

Thomas Küng

Product Manager

ABB
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Known limitation and sup- This section describes the limitations and known defects in the PCM
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porting information about 600 version 1.5. The purpose of this section is to help the user to avoid
Application
this release situations that are known to be problematic in PCM 600 and to describe
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work-arounds for known defects.

New features and

General
enhancement
• Screen resolution: PCM 600 supports the “Normal size (96)” DPI Products supported in

setting. When using PCM 600 with “Large size (120) DPI setting”, this release
Ordering and delivery
some texts might not be visualized in a correct way.
information
• The communication structure should not be manipulated
manually. It should be managed via Plant Structure, Configuration
Documentation
Wizards or SCL import. However the communication properties
Installation
e.g. an IED’s address can be freely altered in the Communication
Hardware and software
Structure
requirements
o If all IEDs that are connected to the 61850 subnetwork are
removed from the plant structure, it can sometime happen
Security recommenda-
that an empty 61850 subnetwork is left in the communication
tion
structure. This will cause a crash of the 61850 OPC server. If
this happens, the empty 61850 subnetwork can be manually Known limitations and
removed from the communication structure. supporting information
• Important note for CAP 540 Users: please remember to install
CAP 540 first and then PCM 600. Do not do the opposite
because this will require uninstallation of PCM 600.
• If you are using PSM and PCM in the same computer and the
PSM version is 1.8 or earlier, you must install PSM first. Otherwise
the MSDE installation fails.
• If MicroSCADA PRO SYS 600 9.2 or earlier and PCM 600 1.5
are installed in the same computer, SYS 600 must be installed
before the PCM 600. If this order is not followed the opening of a
PCM 600 project (and the handling of other projects too) will fail.
• If there is a firewall in the computer in which PCM 600 has been
installed, the firewall has to be configured in such a way that it
enables the PCM 600 to access the network.
• When installing PCM 600 Ver. 1.5 on top of PCM 600 Ver. 1.1 and
PCM 600 Engineering or Engineering Pro is used, CAP 531 has
to be uninstalled before installation of PCM 600 Ver. 1.5.
• At least the Disturbance Handling Tool in PCM 600 does not work
fully in multi-processor PCs.
• PCM 600 has been tested with the standard English versions
of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Users of other language
versions of the operating system may experience errors in the
behavior of PCM 600.
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• Special characters like “<”, “>”, “/”, “\” should be avoided in

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captions, as these characters are not always correctly displayed.
Application
• If you get an “ODBCBCP/Driver version mismatch” error on
Technical highlights
export, updating of MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components)
will likely help: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.
New features and
aspx?FamilyID=6c050fe3-c795-4b7d-b037-185d0506396c&Disp
enhancement
layLang=en
Products supported in
this release
Project Management Ordering and delivery
information
• When converting PCM projects between versions 1.1 and 1.5, it
should be noticed that the automatic conversion does not include
Documentation
SCL data. To obtain a complete conversion including all data,
Installation
proceed as follows:
Hardware and software
1. Make a backup of your PCM 600 data, or a project export
requirements
2. With PCM 600 Ver. 1.1, export the SCD from the project with
private sections Security recommenda-
3. Install PCM 600 Ver. 1.5 tion
4. Install new versions of the Connectivity Packages
(e.g. IED 670 ConnPack Ver. 1.0r12 is not compatible with Known limitations and
PCM 600 Ver. 1.5) supporting information
5. Assign the Connectivity Packages for PCM 600 Ver. 1.5 using
the Connectivity Package Manager
6. Upgrade your project(s) using the PCM 600 Project upgrade
utility. The utility is available on the IED Connect CD for the
670 products and at inside.abb.com/substationautomation.
7. Start PCM 600 Ver. 1.5. Select the project in the Open/
Manage project window and use the conversion tool to open
the converted project and import the SCD file from step 2
using the ‘Ignore PCM object type’ option from SCL import
‘Advance options’
NOTE! If your project includes multiple IEC 61850 subnetworks,
the OPC server will display an error message(s) before importing
the SCD file. These errors are due to the handling of projects with
multiple IEC 61850 subnetworks being changed between PCM
600 Ver. 1.1 SP 2 and PCM 600 Ver. 1.5. To be able to fully work
with a multiple-subnetwork project created in Ver. 1.1 SP2, the
whole procedure has to be executed the same number of times
as the number of subnetworks included in the original project and
thereby the original project will be divided into several projects.
The number of projects in the PCM 600 Ver. 1.5 is same as the
number of IEC 61850 subnetworks of the original project in the
PCM 600 Ver. 1.1 SP2.
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• If you delete an IED that is connected to two communication

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subnetworks (e.g. IEC 61850 and SPA), one of the subnetworks
Application
may not be properly updated. In this case the IED can be
Technical highlights
manually deleted from the communication subnetwork not
updated.
New features and
• IEDs connected to several subnetworks with multiple access
enhancement
points in SCL-file can be imported into PCM communication
Products supported in
structure. In such case IED is connected in PCM communication this release
structure to a first subnetwork encountered from SCL referring the Ordering and delivery
IEDs access point containing logical devices and supported by information
PCM.
• When importing SCL flies that are used with COM 6xx empty Documentation
“bays” called “Busbar1” may appear in the plant structure. Installation
Deleting these bays will cause loss of functionality, if the file is Hardware and software
exported back to COM 6xx related products. requirements
• It is recommended to use unique names (=captions) for
Substation, Voltage Level, Bay and IED. If not some functionality Security recommenda-
e.g. Signal Matrix Tool, SCL import/export, etc. will be lost. tion
• If you receive following error in the PCM output window: Login
failed for user ‘(null)’. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Known limitations and
Server connection,’ please contact SA-D or SA-T supportline. supporting information
Hotfix is available by request.

CAP 531

• Save the configuration data from time to time when CAP 531 runs
in a Microsoft Windows XP environment.
• CAP 531 is an application built on Microsoft’s COM technology
and when it runs in a Microsoft Windows XP SP2 environment,
installation and registration might cause some problem depending
on the specific PC’s firewall settings and authority settings. This
problem is induced by Microsoft’s security Update policy.
• There is a batch file available for proprer registration of the COM
application. Alternatively you can start C:\ProgramFiles\ABB\
PCM600\Bin\Tools\CAP531Tool\CommManager.exe manually.
• Please don’t check the ‘Download PST configuration’ box when
downloading the graphical configuration to the IED. (This is a
feature of CAP 540 only).
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• The CAP 531 compilation may take a fairly long time on some
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PCs. To be able to fully use other tools (e.g. the SMT tool), make
Application
sure that the ExtCompNet process has finished before the CAP
Technical highlights
531application is closed.
• It’s not allowed to use apostrophes (‘) in any of the name fields in
New features and
the CAP 531.
enhancement
Products supported in
Disturbance Handling Tool
this release
Ordering and delivery
• The file format of the disturbance recorder files depends on the
information
IED or the IED Connectivity Package. The COMTRADE format
produced by IED670s follows the IEC 60255-24:2001 standard.
Documentation
If you wish to use an external evaluation tool to open these
Installation
disturbance recorder files from PCM 600, you need to have a tool
Hardware and software
that supports both standards, for example E_wineve 1.1.1.
requirements
• When you use scheduled uploading of disturbance recorder files,
you have to stop the scheduler before you start operating the IED Security recommenda-
manually. tion

Signal Matrix Tool (SMT) Known limitations and

supporting information
• Before using SMT, it is important to make sure, that each
Substation, Voltage Level under substation and Bay under voltage
level has a unique caption within the same level objects. As the
system scl is exported as input for the SMT at start-up, duplicate
names cause the resulting system-SCL to be deficient.

SCL Handling

• If LN-types of the Logical Device are changed between exporting

the SCD-file from PCM 600 and importing it back, the NamPlt.
configRevision of the LN0 should be updated (=increased). If this
is not done, the IEDs/LDs in question should be removed from
the SCD-file before importing it back to PCM 600.