SIMATIC S7 PLC Programming—Basic Level based on S7-1500

Why Attend

The main aim of this course is to provide the participants with basic knowledge about Siemens PLC Programming, to create or to modify Step 7 PLC programs and to find PLC program faults.

Course Methodology

The course is hands on with great emphasis on the practical aspects of Programmable Logic Controller applications. The course is based around Siemens S7-1500 range of PLCs using TIA Portal.

Course Objectives

The course objectives are to provide the participants with the knowledge and skills to enable them to work with Siemens S7 (1500 / 1200 controller series).

On completion of this course the participant will be able to do the following:

• Understand the fundamentals of interaction of the TIA components
• Solve simple programming tasks using elementary STEP 7 instructions
• Reliably operate the “TIA Portal” engineering platform
• Program simple plant functions with basic STEP 7 instructions predominantly in ladder diagram (LAD)
• Perform simple commissioning of TIA components
• Monitoring PLC software using Code or Variable Tables
• Forcing Variables

Target Audience

Electrical and instrumentation technicians and engineers

Target Clients

• Oil & Gas
• Food & Beverage
• Cement
• Chemical Industry
• Mining

• Fertilizers
• Pharmaceutical Factories.
• Water and Waste Water station
• Customers who already have in their plants S7-1200 / 1500

Course Outline

• Overview of the SIMATIC S7 system family
• The components of the TIA Portal: STEP 7, WinCC
• The basic structure of a SIMATIC S7-1500
• Role of input and output modules
• Presentation of programming languages LAD, FBD, STL programming in TIA Portal
• Global variable categories, data types and addressing modes
• Elementary logic instruction set
• Numerical Instructions
• Arithmetic Instructions
• Program execution in automation systems
• Hardware configuration and parameterization of the SIMATIC S7-1500 modules, a PROFINET IO system
• STEP 7 block types and program structuring
• Binary and digital operations based on TIA Portal
• Programming of different block types FCs / FBs

• Error organization blocks
• Output diagnostic messages
• Distributed Peripherals
• Data management with data blocks
• Programming organization blocks
• Test tools for system information, troubleshooting and diagnostics
• Using TIA PORTAL software for troubleshooting
• Detecting and eliminating software errors, that lead to the CPU Stop state
• Detecting and eliminating logical software errors
• Saving and documenting program changes that were made
• Program documentation and saving
• Deeper understanding of contents through practical exercises on TIA system model
• Open Discussion…