Fifteen years of innovation in the field of programmable controllers have made SIMATIC not only the world market leader but a synonym of PLC's as well. In order to maintain this position in the future as well, and in order to make sure that the PLC system will be able to cope with the challenges the future may bring, Siemens offer a completely innovated system platform: SIMATIC S7. In order to safeguard your investments and know-how, Siemens have made sure that SIMATIC S7 is compatible with already existing SIMATIC systems.

The SIMATIC family offers you an attractive overall programming devices concept - from the low-cost handheld programming devices to the especially powerful desktop programming devices. The STEP 7 software allows you to program your controller simply and quickly. You generate, document and test with one and the same software.
The productivity of any manufacturing system depends to a great extent on the flexibility of the control systems used. Decentralization means increased flexibility but also an increased need for devices to exchange data with each other and with a host computer. SIMATIC offers a choice of two solutions for this purpose:

• Point-to-point connection from CPU to CPU or over communications processors where only a few nodes are to be linked
• Communications over the Industrial Ethernet or PROFIBUS local area networks where larger numbers of programmable controllers are to be linked.
  

For more information about the range of PLC's available from Siemens click on the links below.

s7-200

s7-300

s7-400