Category: TIA Portal

The InOut interface in Siemens TIA Portal is a powerful tool for memory management and program efficiency. Instead of copying data in and out of blocks like traditional Inputs and…

Working with virtual machines is no longer optional in automation development... it’s essential. By containerising PLC and SCADA systems, engineers can build robust environments that can be suspended, cloned, or…

Learn about TON, TOF and TP timers. Learn how each of them work, what they have in common and some basic use cases. Do & Grow members also learn additional…

Learn how to use constants to define Array sizes and limits

Let’s take a look at the OB1 object, an Organization block. OB1 is the default object for management of the PLC tasks, it is a cyclically executed object, meaning it…

This video touches on the subject of the PLC properties in TIA Portal. Without setting up some of these properties, you’ll be unable to get connected to your PLC, and…

Once you’ve added your IO modules, the next step is to create a place for the data to sit. TIA Portal uses Tags to achieve this. In the video below,…

Once you’ve added a PLC to your project, its likely that you’ll need to configure some IO. The video below explains how to add IO modules to a CPU, making…

If you are new to TIA Portal, or V17 onwards, then adding a new PLC to a project could be a little more complicated than other platforms you may be…

In TIA Portal, you can access Bits in Bytes / Words by using the .%# notation In the example above, we’re taking a Byte and setting Bits 0 and 1…