The course aims to provide engineers and technicians with the knowledge and skills to enable them to diagnose, fault-find and maintain Siemens S7 (200 Series) Programmable Logic Controllers, in a safe and competent manner.

The course provides the learners with the skills to write simple software code, configure the hardware and enter comments.  The learners will gain confidence in connecting the programming software to the PLC processor, and monitoring the PLC software using the live software or a table of variables.  The attendees are also instructed in the use of forcing variables.

The Siemens S7 (200 Series) course enables the learners to download programs to the target hardware and upload programs in a similar manner.  It covers the maintenance of the PLC, changing the battery periodically and ensuring a full copy of the running software is maintained off-line.

• Hardware architecture of the S7 range of controllers (S7-200)
• Siemens S7 system addressing
• Data format
• Project / Program structure
• Hardware configuration
• Communicating with the PLC
• Downloading and uploading PLC programs
• Online monitoring PLC programs
• Basic programming concepts
• Siemens S7 basic instruction set; Relay; compare ; maths; data moves, compare and logic functions
• Using and creating program documentation
• Copying and backing up projects, archiving and retrieving projects
• Symbolic notation
• Fault finding
• Data monitoring
• Forcing facilities

“Enjoyed the course. Finally got some structure to the stuff previously self taught.”
Hampson Precision Automotive Ltd

“The course was very helpful and I hope to put into practice what I have learned.”
Hampson Precision Automotive Ltd