STEP 7 V5.5 Released for Delivery

With immediate effect, STEP 7 V5.5 has been released for delivery. STEP 7 users can upgrade their existing STEP 7 software to the latest version by purchasing an upgrade (order no. 6ES7810-4CC10-0YE5). Users with a valid Software Update Service agreement for STEP 7 will receive the upgrade to STEP 7 V5.5 automatically. STEP 7 V5.5 will also be included in the new STEP 7 Professional

S7-300/400 CPUs: Temperature Recording in the S7-CPU by Means of Pt100 Resistivity Thermometer and SITRANS TK-L Measuring Transducer

Problem Almost everywhere where products or materials are processed or worked, the temperature has a decisive influence on the quality of the final product and the course of the process respectively. It is thus necessary to record the temperature, to interpret its influence and to specifically react to changes in temperature using control technology. Solution The device combination of SIMATIC

The Graphical Language S7-GRAPH

TopicSIMATIC software is the integrated system environment for all SIMATIC systems and provides you with the ideal tool for every task at each phase of your project for optimizing your engineering workflow. If there are sequential operations in a facility which are dividible into single processing steps, the automation solution will be considerably simplified with the use of sequence charts by

S7-400 CPU 41x -- Configuring and programming communication -- Configuring the PROFIBUS interface

What differences are there when configuring S7 connections?Description: In this description of how to configure S7 connections it is assumed that all the stations are in one S7 project. Types of S7 connections: With S7 connections you differentiate between bilaterally configured and unilaterally configured S7 connections. Bilaterally configured S7 connectionsYou recognize bilaterally configured