Class Information
Length: 5 days
Hours: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Cost: $3,150.00/person
Suggested Prerequisite:
Introduction to PLCs and Languages
Target Audience
This course is for SIMATIC S7-300/400 PLC users who
are involved with developing or sustaining automation
systems and their application programs.
Class Description
This course is the first in a three part series which builds
basic programming skills with Siemens STEP7 software.
Students will learn S7 project management, program
design and application development. This is an
aggressively paced curriculum covering the S7
programming editor with Ladder, Function Block
Diagram, and Statement List programming languages,
and key software tools. This course takes a systems
approach to the S7300/400 PLCs, plus basic
connectivity and functionality of an HMI and PROFIBUS
remote I/O.
Throughout this course students will build a STEP7
project from the beginning, learning proper program
structure and documenting. Software diagnostic tools
will be used for debugging both hardware and code.
Various instruction sets, memory areas, program blocks,
and libraries will be introduced to provide the student
with solid concepts of structured programming.
The course format consists of instruction and hands-on
exercises. The course uses a conveyor model for
realistic demonstrations and exercises.
Class Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student shall be able to:
- Complete a system hardware configuration.
- Build, document, test and troubleshoot a structured STEP7 program.
- Commission a PLC system: Main station, Remote station, HMI, Conveyor.
- Program using the multiple address types.
- Use symbolic addressing.
- Use core application instructions, functions and blocks.
- Program using the processed analog values.
- Generate data blocks.
- Establish connections to an HMI system.
Class Outline
| |
Programming 1 with Virtualization |
| 1. |
STEP 7 Family Overview |
| 2. |
Introduction to SIMATIC Manager |
| 3. |
Hardware Configuration Tool |
| 4. |
Monitor/Modify Tool |
| 5. |
Commission a PLC system: Main station, Remote station, HMI, Conveyor |
| 6. |
Programming with STEP 7 |
| 7. |
Assigning symbol names to Objects |
| 8. |
Introduction to HMI and WinCC Flexible software |
| 9. |
Software catalog elements |
| 10. |
System diagnostics |
| 11. |
Analog value processing |
| 12. |
Backing up the project |