Hello everyone,

With this course from one collegue to another about Siemens SIMATIC both Hardware And Software Side you will able to get information and for your future career, you will gain more experience during your business life. So from this point of view if you are interested with industrial automation sector, specially automation and control area, Simatic is one of the most commonly used product family in industry.

From beginning step by step this the first course offers you complete walktrough of a serie. And it will continiue with "Siemens Simatic Manager S7 System and Programming" 1-2-3.

During this course you will become familiar with the fundemental principle of a logic controller, concept of modular SIMATIC system, basic operating procedures of Simatic Manager.

You will have an overview of the SIMATIC S7 system family, and you will be familiar with the S7-200 and S7-300/400 automation systems, have an overview of the modules available for these automation systems, understand the concept of "Totally Integrated Automation", be familiar with the SIMATIC programming devices and the PC requirements for working with STEP7, tools of the STEP7 programming package.

You will get information about offline / online view in the SIMATIC Manager, STEP 7 standard libraries, help system, SIMATIC Manager project and libraries.

And also you will know how to insert a hardware station into a project, create a setpoint configuration and assign parameters to it, read out an actual configuration and assign parameters to it, addressing of S7 input and output modules.

Upon completion of this training the participant will know the different types of S7 blocks, understand the principle of "structured programming", know and be able to select the STEP7 programming languages - LAD, FBD and STL, be able to edit, save and download an S7 logic block into the CPU using the LAD/STL/FBD Editor, be able to carry out a program debugging with the test functions.

There are additional informations such as, difference between absolute and symbolic addressing, difference between local and global symbols, global symbol table, connected NC contacts and NO contacts, programming binary logic operations, S5 timers, counters, conversion functions, global data blocks, UDTs, elementary and complex data types, structures, local variables, functions, function blocks.

You will be familiar with the "Displaying CPU Messages" function, able to read out the diagnostic buffer for troubleshooting, I STACK, B STACK and L STACK, hardware diagnosis, reference data, "Force" and "Breakpoints"function.

Upon completion of this chapter the participant will, know the organization blocks that are available, understand the difference between "Complete restart", "(Warm) Restart" and "Cold restart",

be able to explain the principle of interrupt processing, know the "Time-of-Day Interrupt", "Cyclic Interrupt", "Hardware Interrupt", "Time-Delay Interrupt", "Diagnostic Interrupt", principle of analog value processing, assign parameters to an analog module using the "HW Config" tool.

You will know, memory concept of SIMATIC S7-300™/400™ and the resulting possibilities for program modifications, load/read a program to/from a Flash EPROM Memory Card, archive/retrieve a project on/from a diskette.

You will know the subnets of the SIMATIC world, S7 communication methods, global data communication. Technical Specifications of the S7-300 / 400 CPUs, Main Differences between the S7-400™ and the S7-300™, components, racks, module parameters and logical adresses, CPU Parameters for Startup, Interrupts, Memory, remove and insert interrupts.

You will get general information about, Automating with SIMATIC S7, SIMATIC® S7/C7 and WinAC Controllers, Programming Sequence Control Systems with S7- GRAPH, Programming using the State Diagram Method with S7- HiGraph, Programming in the High Level Language S7- SCL, CFC for SIMATIC® S7, Configuring Sequence Control Systems with S7- SFC, Process Diagnosis with S7- PDIAG, Testing User Programs with S7- PLCSIM, Remote Maintenance and Remote Diagnosis with TeleService, Communicating with SIMATIC® NET, Operator Control and Process Monitoring with SIMATIC® HMI, Process Visualization and Operator Control with WinCC, Process Automation with SIMATIC® PCS 7, DRIVES Technology – as a Component of TIA.

Before you start, if you are a beginner at Simatic world, this course will be really useful and helpful i guess. And I suggest you to spare at least couple of days for this training, and you are going to need some free time to do exercises at your own pc and if it's possible you can use real hardware or democase to make some practice.

I hope you will enjoy this course.

With sincerely.

Caner Sezer.