JohnRatHolten
Member
Hey All,
We recently acquired a new used machine off the surplus market.
there are two sections to the machine, each with its own PLC/HMI and connected to each other through a router.
The PLCs are Siemens S7-1200, which of course I have absolutely no experience with.
I little research told me I needed Simatic Step 7 as programming software, so I bought a single license copy of Ver15.1
My only goal at this point would be to upload the programs from the PLC's for my archives (as I typically do when we get something new), and of course learn a new technology.
I have installed the software on my laptop and let it make all the system changes that it wanted....
I have set my network card to a static IP in the same subnet as PLC's and router,
I see that the install has added some items to my network card configuration for Simatic Industrial Ethernet
and Profinet.
It seems that I should just have to connect my laptop to the router, and from the TIA Portal under Online & Diagnostics, select "Accessible Devices", and after choosing PN/IE interface and pointing to my network card, I should just do "Start Search" and everything should show up on the list, but it doesn't.
Anyone have experience with this stuff that can shed a little light on this??
Regards,
JohnR
We recently acquired a new used machine off the surplus market.
there are two sections to the machine, each with its own PLC/HMI and connected to each other through a router.
The PLCs are Siemens S7-1200, which of course I have absolutely no experience with.
I little research told me I needed Simatic Step 7 as programming software, so I bought a single license copy of Ver15.1
My only goal at this point would be to upload the programs from the PLC's for my archives (as I typically do when we get something new), and of course learn a new technology.
I have installed the software on my laptop and let it make all the system changes that it wanted....
I have set my network card to a static IP in the same subnet as PLC's and router,
I see that the install has added some items to my network card configuration for Simatic Industrial Ethernet
and Profinet.
It seems that I should just have to connect my laptop to the router, and from the TIA Portal under Online & Diagnostics, select "Accessible Devices", and after choosing PN/IE interface and pointing to my network card, I should just do "Start Search" and everything should show up on the list, but it doesn't.
Anyone have experience with this stuff that can shed a little light on this??
Regards,
JohnR