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I work in a plant that uses automated equipment mainly from the German brand Krones AG. All this equipment is controlled by Simatic S7 300 and 400 PLCs. We also have other brands equipment (all German too), one of them having a S7 200. I wonder, besides using different software (microwin for 200s and step 7 for 300 and 400s) what other main charachteristics makes them all 3 types different. I see among each series, there is a diference in memory, number of couters and timers.
I am mech engineer just out of school last year, and i would like to learn this type of PLCs. We have some training with small Festo brand PLCs which used a DOS based ladder type software. I already downloaded the PDF manuals from Siemens for the 3 programming languages that are keeping me busy these days. I also dled microwin demo. but all this does not make much sense if i dont have a simatic PLC, so, I ask this questions because I read suggestions from guys in this forum to get a starter kit for an S7 200 and I wonder if it will be enough for me to learn 300 and 400s too. I saw microwin very similar to the screenshots of Step 7 on manual, and i noticed it has fewer timer types than the step 7 series. I guess there should be many other i did not recognize. Please, what other features do 300s and 400s have over 200? Thanks, and greetings all!
¡Feliz Navidad!
A friend from my job recommended me this extremely interesting site. This is one awesome good use for internet. Thanks in advance!
I work in a plant that uses automated equipment mainly from the German brand Krones AG. All this equipment is controlled by Simatic S7 300 and 400 PLCs. We also have other brands equipment (all German too), one of them having a S7 200. I wonder, besides using different software (microwin for 200s and step 7 for 300 and 400s) what other main charachteristics makes them all 3 types different. I see among each series, there is a diference in memory, number of couters and timers.
I am mech engineer just out of school last year, and i would like to learn this type of PLCs. We have some training with small Festo brand PLCs which used a DOS based ladder type software. I already downloaded the PDF manuals from Siemens for the 3 programming languages that are keeping me busy these days. I also dled microwin demo. but all this does not make much sense if i dont have a simatic PLC, so, I ask this questions because I read suggestions from guys in this forum to get a starter kit for an S7 200 and I wonder if it will be enough for me to learn 300 and 400s too. I saw microwin very similar to the screenshots of Step 7 on manual, and i noticed it has fewer timer types than the step 7 series. I guess there should be many other i did not recognize. Please, what other features do 300s and 400s have over 200? Thanks, and greetings all!
¡Feliz Navidad!