Course description
In this course participants have the opportunity to gain basic and deeper knowledge about programmable logic controller and their secure configuration and use.
In a step by step instruction you assemble your own machine. Professional Installation, Programming and troubleshooting will be covered. You will learn to maintain these and similar machines and be able to analyse errors. You will gain deeper understanding of the widely distributed, original SIEMENS SIMATIC STEP7 Software and the newest S7 SPS machine from SIEMENS.
Participants of this course will have extensive knowledge in Configuration and Programming with SIMATIC STEP7 V5.6 on S7-300 machines and will be able to use these and similar automation machines in practice, localize errors, troubleshoot and generally use and maintain these kind of machines longterm.
Course content
Module 1: SIMATIC STEP7 V5.6 Introduction into the SIEMENS plattform of automation
Hard- und Software
- Overview SIMATIC-System familiy and its features
- Setup and functionality of an SPS/PLC machine
- components and installation
Module 2: SIMATIC STEP7 V5.6 Configuration and Programming basics
Hard- and Software
- operating and display elements
- Storage principles of the CPU
- Software STEP7
SIMATIC-Manager
- Hardware configuration and possibilities of component parametrization
- Create and Edit projects and programmes
- structure of programmes and overview of modules
- programming of code-modules OB, FB and FC
- Introduction into networking of different modules
- Basic operations for STEP7-Programming
- data components & data management
- Programme documentation and symbolism
- Saving of programmes and projects
- testing of programmes via simulation
- comissioning and testing of programmes on S7-300
- programme analysis
- overview of test and diagnosis tools to facilitate troubleshooting
Module 3: SIMATIC STEP7 V5.6 Configuration and Programming: Setup of structured programming
- Aproaching complex programming tasks
- programme structure / Module-overview and properties
- programming with parameterised blocks and data components
- data components, data types and data formats
- parameterised blocks, variables
- programming of functions
- programming of multi instances
- example applications with System-modules SFC / SFB
- overview of alerts
- configuration of alerts
- interpret diagnostic data
- setup of analogue signal elements
Course format
The course combines classroom lectures and group work.
