1. Lecture 11 11.1 Most important PLC producers 11.2 Families of PLC
(SW for programming of PLC)
11.3 HMI
11.4 Visualization of technological processes

2. 11.1Most important PLC producers
Siemens - Germany
AB (Allen Bradley) – US
Schneider Electric (Modicon) – France
Mitsubishi – Japan
ABB - Germany
SAIA – Switzerland
GE Fanuc - US
B&R (Bernecker + Reiner) – Austria
Teco – Czech Republic

3. Most important PLC producers-2
Siemens (see Case study 2)
Schneider Electric (see Case study 1)
FESTO (see Lecture of Ing. Haumer, Festo corp., Case study 3 - Pneumatic axis)
Teco (see Case study 3 – Teach - in)

4. 11.2 Families of PLC – Siemens SIMATIC S5 – older issue
Low performance group (up to 448 digital I/O and 41 analogue I/O))
SIMATIC S5-90U
SIMATIC S5-95U/F
SIMATIC S5-100U
Middle performance group
SIMATIC S5-115U/F
High performance group ( I/O……)
SIMATIC S5-135
SIMATIC S5-155/U/H/F

5. Families of PLC – Siemens SIMATIC S5 – older issue - 2
Special programators (HW devices, not PCs) for software application creating
Software tool for project programming, debuging, management and documentation preparation: STEP 5
Networks: SINEC
HMI: COROS

6. Families of PLC – Siemens SIMATIC S7 – new issue
S microsystems
S middle class
C7 (S7-300+OP=OPLC)
S high performance control system

7. Families of PLC – Siemens SIMATIC S7 – new issue - 2
PCs for programming
Software tool for project programming, debuging, management and documentation preparation: STEP7
- version Standard or Mini for SIMATIC S7- 300, SIMATIC C7 and SIMATIC S7-400
- version Micro/WIN for S7-200

8. Families of PLC – Siemens SIMATIC S7 – new issue - 3
In STEP7 – Standard and STEP7-Mini the standard IEC  is supported. Languages LD, FBD, IL (ST) are at disposal and it is possible to use all these languages in one project.
Software tools for program diagnosis, communication and hardware configuration are also included
Large projects and team collaboration is supported

9. Families of PLC – Siemens SIMATIC S7 – new issue - 4
New programming tools:
SCF, Graph, HiGraph, SCL, CFC (engineering tools, very expensive, for large projects)
See Case Study 2 (Siemens)

10. Families of PLC – Schneider Electric
Name Performance
Twido low
TSX Nano
TSX Micro
TSX Premium
TSX Quantum high

11. PL7-Pro Software tool for Schneider Electric programming

12. Families of PLC - Festo CHIP@IPC - high performance iPC in one chip
IPC PS1 - large modular system for demanding applications
IPC FEC Standard-middle class system
-Types: FEC FC4XX, FEC FC6XX,
IPC FEC Compact-low-cost class system
-Types: FEC FC 2X, FEC FC3X
SPC 200 for pneumatic axis control

13. Families of PLC – Festo -2
IPC PS1 with basis for five modules with one processor module

14. Families of PLC – Festo -3
FEC FC PS1 FC 38
Both PLCs implemented on „FESTIK“ man-robot

15. Families of PLC - Teco Older issue Tecomat NS 946 Tecomat NS 940
New issue
Tecomat TC400
Tecomat TC500 (OPLC)
Tecomat TC600
Tecomat TC700 (new in 2003)

16. 11.3 HMI HMI – Human Machine Interface MMI – Man Machine Interface
(older name for HMI)
SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
HW and SW means for operator and supervisor control
(various types of operator panels and PCs, software packages for operator panels programming and for visualization)

17. HMI - Operator panels Two main parts: display - only textual
- graphical - monochromatic
- colour
buttons - with predefined meaning
(minimal configuration:
up, down, OK, ESC)
- free for user configuration
- numerical

18. Operator panels - 2
Textual operator panel TD2OO (Siemens)

19. Operator panels - 3 Textual operator panel TD200
Suitable for simple HMI applications in connection with PLC SIMATIC S7-200
LCD displey with two rows for 20 characters
Four function keys (buttons) F1 to F4
Four system keys (buttons)
- (up, down for listing through messages and parameters setting, OK – confirmation, ESC –return)

20. Operator panels - 4
For connection to the PLC SIMATIC S7-200 or to the PC only one interface PPI (peer to peer interface) - RS 485.
Speed: 9,6/19.2/187,5 kbit/s.

21. Operator panels - 5
Touch panel TP070 (Siemens)

22. Operator panels - 6 Touch panel TP070
Suitable for simple or more complicated HMI applications in connection with PLC SIMATIC S7-200
The smallest operator panel build on Windows CE architecture
It is possible to display user grafics, dynamic bar graphs, dynamic application variables, user buttons in four intensities of gray
graphics resolution 320x240 pixels
One interface RS 485, maximal speed 19,2 kbit/s

23. Operator panels - 7
Touch panel TP070 based on 32-bits processor RISC/66 MHz and user memory flash 128 Kbyte.
life cycle 6 years continuously
For programming: TP Designer in collaboration with MicroWIN V3.1 and higher.
It is possible to connect this panel to another devices with MPI cable or Profibus DP cable.

24. Operator panels - 8
Multipanel MP370 (Siemens)

25. 11.4 Visualization of technological processes
Representation of technological process behavior on display (operator panel or PC)
Technological information
- (technological variables values – e.g. pressure, temperature, level, position, number of pieces, type of pieces, delays etc.)
Information about control of the process
- (state of sensors, state of actuators, controller parameters, step in sequential control etc.)

26. Visualization of technological processes - 2
Operator interface for
Change of individual parameters or the whole set of parameters (data structure – recipe)
Manual control of the process (e.g. possibility to manipulate with motors)
Error handling
Alarm procesing
Data acquisition (e.g. for longterm statistic evaluation of quality or performance)

27. Visualization of technological processes - 3
SW for visualization:
Siemens: WinCC
Schneider Electric – PL7 Pro (only for simple applications)
Festo: ViP
Teco: Reliance
Large SW packages for visualization (drivers for most famous PLCs):

28. Visualization of technological processes - 4
Large SW packages for visualization (drivers for most famous PLCs):
InTouch (Wonderware corp.)
WinCC (Siemens)
RS View (Allen Bradley)
Vip (Festo)

29. Visualization of industrial processes – example in PL7Pro – Schneider Electric

30. Visualization of industrial processes – example in PL7Pro – Schneider Electric -2
Three pneumatic cylinders (motors),
Interface for operator (buttons for manual operating the technological process)
Technological parameters displaying (number of pieces, time delays, etc.)
Variables – so called Tags in the left column

31. FESTIK - man robot

32. FESTIK - man robot - 2
Pneumatic part

33. Visualization in MS Excel
FESTIK - man robot - 3
Visualization in MS Excel