Well done so far! After having the programming software IDE completed, the next step is to install the simulator package which is PLCSIM version 15.1.
And then, the installation wizard is launched by the end of file extraction which is a very systematic and easy way.įigure 2: TIA portal version 15.1 setup wizard
Congratulation! You know have the programming software IDE installed on your computer and the good news is, all packages of Siemens go with the same scenario, you download the software package files. The third part shows the setup goes on progressively and takes you to the end of the installation of the software IDE. In the next part of the picture in the middle, the setup wizard gets started by general settings in which you can set the preferred language and select the preferred installation location. Moving our eyes from left to right, on the first part, the downloaded package has been extracted. At the time of this writing, their most stable versions are 15.1, so download these two applications from below links:Īfter downloading the TIA and the simulator, we extract the package by double click on the file we downloaded, and then it will be self-extracted and initiate the setup wizard as shown in the below figure. Along with this software, we will also need to install a PLC Simulator called S7 PLCSIM, again designed by Siemens. So, we are going to install PLC Environment designed by Siemens and is called Total integrated automation (TIA).
In addition, we are going to test our environment setup with a very basic program and take the chance to show you how to program, configure, upload, and test your program on the simulator.Īs I mentioned in the last tutorial, we are going to work on Siemens PLC throughout this tutorial, as it’s one of the most common PLC controllers. To sum up, by completing this article you will have a complete lab that includes the software you are going to use, the simulator that plays as the hardware, and certainly, you will be familiar with installing a PLC programming environment by which you can program, configure, moving the program to the PLC hardware, retrieving the program from the PLC to the software environment, and testing your program on the simulator. Using PLC Simulator, we can program our PLC controller and imitate its real behavior without having the hardware, saving both time and money as now we don’t need to buy a new PLC and can start right away. So, in order to avoid these PLC issues at the beginning, instead of buying a PLC one should work on a PLC Simulator. Moreover, if you are working on a real PLC, you need to do some wiring in order to operate it. In our previous tutorial, we have seen a detailed Introduction to Ladder Logic Programming and we have seen that this programming language is used for PLC controllers.Īs PLC is an Industrial Controller, it comes with built-in relays/transistors(with protection circuitry) and thus is quite expensive as compared to microcontrollers/microprocessors i.e. It’s our second tutorial in Ladder Logic Programming Series.
Hello friends, I hope you are doing very well! In today’s tutorial, we will set up a simulation environment for Ladder Logic Programming.