Siemens in Central Queensland industry
Siemens S7 PLCs appear across a range of Central Queensland industrial applications - processing plant and utilities on mining sites, water and wastewater treatment infrastructure for local councils, manufacturing and food processing operations across the region.
The S7-300 and S7-400 platforms have been the workhorse of Siemens industrial automation for decades and are still running on many CQ sites. Siemens has moved the current product range to S7-1200 and S7-1500 with TIA Portal as the unified engineering environment - these are the platforms being specified for new installations and upgrade projects.
TIA Portal and legacy STEP 7
TIA Portal is Siemens’ unified engineering environment covering PLC programming, HMI configuration, network setup, and safety programming. It handles S7-1200, S7-1500, WinCC HMI panels, and SIMATIC ET 200 distributed I/O in a single project.
Legacy S7-300 and S7-400 systems programmed in STEP 7 (Classic) can be imported into TIA Portal, which is the typical starting point for migration projects. The import is not always clean - program structure, symbol tables, and hardware configuration all require review and correction - but it gives a starting point for the S7-1500 replacement program.
WinCC HMI and SCADA
WinCC covers a range of Siemens HMI and SCADA products from panel HMIs (Comfort and Unified panels) through to PC-based SCADA (WinCC Advanced and Professional). We develop and modify WinCC projects across this range as part of PLC and control system work, and as standalone HMI improvement projects.