A crucial ingredient in reducing production downtimes is the appropriate use of diagnostics. In this video Nick looks at the ProDiag add-on within TIA Portal which allows for simple but powerful alarming to be built into a program. Also covered is the SIMATIC Notifier App which can be used to push notifications to smartphones.
https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109740151/machine-and-plant-diagnostics-with-prodiag?dti=0&lc=en-WW
https://www.dex.siemens.com/mindsphere/applications/simatic-notifier