INTRODUCTION FOR SIEMENS S7-400 PLC TROUBLESHOOTING & MAINTENANCE – LEVEL I
This course provides participants with a solid base of Siemens S7–400 PLC fundamental understanding and skills necessary for successful system diagnostics and repair. This course is ideal for beginner with little or no previous experience with Siemens S7 PLC system.
The course is designed with fully functional application programs are used as a baseline for the participant to understand key process flow information, diagnostics tools, repair & basic programming techniques.
The main intension of this course is to make sure the participants gain basic & fundamental knowledge of Siemens S7 PLC system and able to handle troubleshooting and maintenance job at plant with ability to modify minor programs when ever needed.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Understand fundamental of siemens PLC S7–400 hardware & software.
- Understand different type of programming language used at siemens environments includes LAD, FBD, STL, GRAPH-7 & SCL
- Familiarize with hardware configuration tools.
- Use TIA PORTAL V17 tools for basic programming functions.
- Understand logical instructions set used in PLC programming.
- Understand different block types (FC, FB, OB, and DB).
- Able to create, upload, download, backups & archive plc programs using different type of communication methods.
- Use the hardware configuration editor to inspect and troubleshoot basic hardware.
- Fundamental analog device, concept and working principle in siemens PLC.
TRAINING DURATION
2 Days (9am to 5pm)
COURSE CONTENT
Day 1
- SIMATICS7 1200 & 1500 system family.
- The hardware architecture of the S7 range of.
- Basic I/O modules and wiring.
- Addresses used in the S7 range of controllers & training units and.
- Hardware configuration & hardware.
- Structure of the programming standard IEC 1131 in relation to STEP.
- Instruction set – relay, maths, move, compare and logic.
- CPU configuration, setting parameters and application of several I/O cards using the TIA PORTAL software.
Day 2
- Siemens PLC architecture and program scan cycle.
- Communicating with the PLC & downloading and uploading PLC.
- Explanation on Input, Outputs, Memory, Data Formats & Data.
- Program structure, introduction to blocks; OB’s, FC’s FB’s, SFC’s, SFB’s and DB’s.
- Using and creating program documentation, copying, archiving and retrieving.
- Symbolic notation & generating cross.
- Diagnostic information and module information used for fault.
- Data monitoring and modifying variables & block compares operation.
- Online monitoring, searching and using the cross-reference.
- Online and offline editing and modifying.
