PCM600 is used for various tasks in the protection relay engineering process.
- Relay engineering management
- Organizing the bay protection relays in the structure of the substation by defining voltage levels and bays below the substation. PCM600 manages the project.
- Configuring the protection relay functions (for example, protection and control functions) by using Application Configuration.
- Configuring the parameters and setting values for the protection relay and for the process functions by using Parameter Setting.
- Configuring LHMI pages, drawing single-line diagrams and making links to dynamic process values by using Graphical Display Editor. The single-line diagrams are displayed on the LHMI and the WHMI on the bay protection relay.
- Configuring connections between the application configuration function blocks and physical hardware inputs and outputs by using Signal Matrix or Application Configuration.
- Configuring the events shown on the LHMI using HMI Event Filtering.
- Communication management
- IEC 61850 station communication engineering is done using the internal IEC 61850 Configuration tool or the separate IET600. PCM600 interacts with IET600 by importing and exporting SCL files.
- Configuring the GOOSE receiving data connections to the protection relay's application configuration function blocks by using the Application Configuration tool and the Signal Matrix tool.
- Configuring protocol data mapping for Modbus, DNP3, IEC 60870-5-103 or IEC 60870-5-104 with the Communication Management tool.
- Configuring the sampled values (process bus) between the devices using Application Configuration, IEC 61850 Configuration and Signal Matrix.
- Configuring Ethernet ports and other network settings using Ethernet Configuration.
- Record management
- Generating overviews of the available disturbance recordings in all connected protection relays by using Disturbance Handling.
- Manually reading the recording files (in the COMTRADE format) from the protection relays by using Disturbance Handling or automatically by using PCM600 Scheduler.
- Managing recording files with Disturbance Handling.
- Creating overview reports for fast evaluation of the recording file content by using Disturbance Handling.
- Reading fault records from the protection relay, saving records to a PC and clearing old records with Fault Record.
- Reading load profile records from the protection relay, saving records to a PC and clearing old records using Load Profile.
- Service management
- Monitoring the selected signals of a protection relay for commissioning or service purposes by using Application Configuration, Parameter Setting and Event Viewer (including security logs)
There are also additional functions for managing projects and organizing user rights.
- PCM600 user management
- Organizing users regarding their rights, profiles and passwords to use different tools and functions in the tools.
- Defining allowed activities for user profiles to use tools in PCM600.
- Relay user management
- Supporting user account management and role-based access control
- Using IED Users for local user accounts and Account Management for central account management
Once the engineering of the protection relay is finished, the results must be written to the protection relay.
The connection between the physical IED and PCM600 is established via an Ethernet link on the HMI or LAN port of the protection relay.