This course is for SIMATIC S7-300/400 users who have completed our Part 1 course and are ready to deepen their maintenance and service capabilities. Using the STEP 7 software, you will learn to build new features, enhance diagnostics, and establish communications within an application project.
The training takes a hands-on approach, reinforcing theory with practical tasks on a simulation rig and an S7-300 PLC. You will use advanced test, debug, and diagnostic tools to master commissioning, programming, and system integration exercises.
Building on your existing knowledge, this course focuses on advanced service and maintenance topics to solve complex automation challenges.
- Recap and Review: Refresh your understanding of hardware and software commissioning.
- Advanced Data Handling: Dive deeper into data storage with Data Blocks (DBs).
- Structured Programming: Master the use of Functions (FCs), Function Blocks (FBs), and Organisation Blocks (OBs).
- Analogue Value Processing: Learn to program and process analogue signals effectively.
- System Diagnostics: Access and utilise system information for advanced troubleshooting.
- Network Commissioning: Get hands-on with MPI Network commissioning.
- Project Management: Practise uploading, downloading, documenting, saving, and archiving projects.
- Fault Finding: Learn to diagnose complex faults using a combination of software tools and hardware diagrams.
This course is specifically aimed at service and maintenance personnel who need to solve a variety of complex tasks on SIMATIC S7 systems and have already completed the prerequisite S7 Service and Maintenance Part 1 course.
Attendees must have completed the Siemens ST-SERV1 Course. Proficiency in using a Microsoft Windows PC environment is also required.
Upon completion of this advanced maintenance training, you will be able to:
- Confidently use different block types (FC, FB, OB, DB) to structure and enhance programs.
- Understand and apply the principles of analogue value processing.
- Eliminate software errors that cause a CPU to stop, and fix logical errors like multiple assignments.
- Professionally save and document any program changes you have made.
- Effectively access data blocks and use processed analogue values in your logic.