Siemens SIMATIC S7 Maintenance, Configuration and Troubleshooting Course

Course Overview:

The course tackles essential concepts for individuals aiming to excel and become proficient in the SIMATIC S7-300/400 PLC system.

By the end of this course, one will be able to identify the components and performance of the PLC, system installation and configuration, hardware troubleshooting, and basic program modification. 

Further, concepts such as binary operations, timers, counters, comparators, and arithmetic functions will be covered. Moreover, the integration and troubleshooting of HMI and drive systems, Profibus DP nodes configuration, and Siemens SIMATIC software for system diagnostics and repairs are a part of this course as well.

Service and maintenance personnel dealing with Automation systems installation and servicing will benefit highly from this course.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Identify the components and performance characteristics of the SIMATIC S7-300/400 PLC
• Install a PLC system, including the communication cabling and wiring of I/O
• Use the various address types to edit, reload, structure, and run a program. Document, test, and basically troubleshoot the control system and its program
• Diagnose and repair simple hardware problems
• Utilize binary operations, timers, counters, comparators, and arithmetic operations for program modifications
• Integrate and troubleshoot an HMI and Drive system within the control system ✓ Configure and troubleshoot Profibus DP nodes

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for service/maintenance personnel who install or maintain automation systems and their application programs.

Course Outlines:

 Introduction

• SIMATIC S7 system overview
• Siemens SIMATIC S7 modules
• Siemens SIMATIC S7 CPU design
• CPU properties memory, protection, and clock
• Programming devices
• PC requirements for installing step7
• Step 7 software
• Insights into determining the status of a module
• Memory concepts and layout
• SIMATIC S7 System Family overview
• Installation and maintenance of a PLC
• The SlMATIC Manager software package
• Hardware configuration
• Hardware commissioning
• Block architecture and Program Editors
• Symbols Binary Operations
• Digital Operations
• Introduction to HMI and Profibus DP
• Rewiring
• Introduction to Drive Systems
• Program documenting, saving, and archiving
• Troubleshooting

• Configuring hardware
• Module status
• Symbols
• Bit logic instructions
• Review of the numbering system
• Load and transfer instructions
• Timers
• Counters
• Data Blocks
• Clock byte
• OB Blocks
• Math operations
• Compare operations

• Monitor with path
• Jump instructions
• Analog, I/O
• Profibus DP
• Searching
• Reference data
• Compare blocks
• Forcing
• Troubleshooting
• Common tasks
• Accumulator memory
• How to address

Synchronous blocks

• How to use function calls, function blocks and monitoring specific
• Various type of jump operations
• Introduce I/O used on Profibus
• Creating a project
• HW preset configuration and downloading in module
• Displaying HW in the Semantic Manager
• Possible problems with the configuration
• Variable addressing
• Accessing the symbol table

Reading out and adapting the actual configuration

• Assign parameters to clock memory and test it
• Downloading and saving modified blocks
• Opening and editing FC1 and changing the programming language
• Saving FC1 and Downloading a Block into the PLC
• Calling FC1 in OB1
• Expanding the program in the FC1 BLOCK
• Setup of training area with S7-300
• Setup of training area with S7-400
• Configuration of the training unit S7-400
• Set the PG interface