For example:
● Turns of a circular magazine
● Loading/unloading (only for systems without additional buffers such as handling systems, 
loaders, etc.)
● Changing manual tools
●
Positioning a magazine
Rules for acknowledgment  
If intermediate steps are useful, several rules must be observed during acknowledgment:
The PLC user program must ensure that all acknowledgments are transferred correctly to the 
tool management.
● Only one acknowledgment signal at a time may be sent to the tool management.
● Synchronous acknowledgments are permissible only for the pending job
● Only valid transfer-step numbers may be used (1 - 64, 100 - 164). For asynchronous 
messages, at least one transfer step must be input for status 201, for status 204 a transfer 
step for the new tool must be input.
● Coded positions in the transfer steps may only be used for synchronous acknowledgments 
and only with the values 0/1, 0/2 or 0/3.
● No illegal acknowledgment states may be used.
● Magazine positioning with a job may only receive a synchronous acknowledgment (end 
acknowledgment). Intermediate positions must be reported to the tool management with 
asynchronous messages.
● Acknowledgment signals must be reset by the PLC basic program. After an 
acknowledgment bit is set, the user interface may not be changed until the feedback 
message in DB41xx/DB43xx DBB100!
● Asynchronous messages with two transfer steps must be acknowledged on the tool change 
interface (DB42xx).
9.4.7 Information on magazine location
Overview 
It is possible to read up to eight NC variables in one job via the "NC services" interface of 
DB1200.
Tool management
9.4 PLC Program Blocks
CNC commissioning
294 Commissioning Manual, 10/2015, 6FC5397-3DP40-5BA3