Siemens TIA Portal V18 – Creating PLC Tags For Hardware Signals
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,…
Siemens TIA Portal V18 – Add IO To A PLC And Configure Hardware
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…
TIA Portal V18 – Adding A New PLC To A Project
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…
TIA Portal – Bit Access
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…
TIA Portal – Using BLKMOV and AT Constructors
The BLKMOV and AT constructors can be used to manage moving data from one data type to another. This can be useful if you are managing buffered data, or data…
TIA Portal – Finding Which Version Of TIA A PLC Is Using
Ever needed to know which version of TIA Portal you need to perform an Upload from a PLC and you don’t have the original project? If you are seeing a…
TIA Portal – Reference Projects
TIA portal offers a great alternative to opening multiple instances of TIA to reference another project… What Is A Reference Project? It’s exactly as it sounds! A reference project is…
TIA Portal – Defining Variables
It’s no secret that you have to define variables in a block in order to assign values to them, but how do you go about doing that? There are two…
TIA Portal – Configuration Of OPC UA Server / Client Interfaces
OPC UA is built in to most S7-1500 PLCs, especially those with the latest firmware. Siemens have the “Standard Simatic Interface”, but you can create your own and restrict access…
TIA Portal – Communication with BSEND/BRCV
Communication between CPU’s can be done in different ways, we’ve already covered Put/Get. BSEND/BRCV gives you a little more control over when you want to receive information and when the…