Variable Monitoring

The Variable Dictionary contains all the IEC"International Electrotechnical Commission" IEC is a not-for-profit, non-governmental international standards organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies 61131-3 variables needed by the application. The variables are listed by categories corresponding to the declared programs, functions and function blocks.

When your application is running:

• all variables in the Dictionary are animated 1 To better track variables and expressions of the PLC programs in Test mode, the KAS IDE dynamically computes their value along with the program execution and display the result in gray boxes beside their usage in the instruction lines of the IEC 61131-3 editor. with real-time values displayed in the Value column (see call out )
• a specific column is used to indicate the initial values of all variables

Figure 4-69: Variable DictionarySee Also