Overview of S7 Family and Hardware

Basic Hardware

Fault Finding (Practical Exercise)

Theory of Operation

I/O Addressing

Numbering Systems

PC to PLC Communications (Practical Exercise)

Introduction to S7 Programming Software

Setting up a project (Practical Exercise)

Block Types (OB, FC, FB, DB etc.)

Program Structure

Program Representation (LAD, CSF, STL)

Uploading and Downloading Programs (Practical Exercise)

Basic Instruction Set

Monitoring a Program Online / Block Status (Practical Exercise)

Status Variables (Practical Exercise)

Search and Cross Reference (Practical Exercise)

Software Fault Finding (Practical Exercise)

Diagnostics Functions

Force Functions

Program Documentation (Comments/Symbols/Printouts)

Common functions in Statement List (STL)