Siemens industrial automation
S7-300 on STEP 7, S7-1200 and S7-1500 on TIA Portal. New machines, running installations, and the programs that have become hard to take over.
From a small standalone installation to a complete production line.
Architecture, sequential control, operating modes, safety, part traceability. WinCC Comfort and Unified HMI. Variable speed drives, process control, PID loops.
Many installations run on programs written twenty years ago and patched by successive contractors. Analysis, restructuring, documentation, without changing the hardware.
S7-1200 and S7-1500 CPUs include a web server. The control logic stays in the PLC and the page is only a display: if the interface fails, the machine keeps running.
Study, development and documentation are done remotely. Commissioning is assisted and staged: a documented step-by-step procedure with validation criteria, and I guide your team or your integrator through each stage.
Every TIA Portal release from V14 onwards, and STEP 7 V5, are kept on dedicated virtual machines. I work in the version running at your site: your engineering station keeps access to the program.
A consistent in-house programming standard: naming, architecture, block library, documentation. Client standards applied in full when imposed, which is common with large accounts.
Operator-facing texts are kept outside the program. Adding a language touches neither the PLC nor the HMI structure. Translation is an interface matter, not a control matter.
Each project gets a private authenticated area: versioned TIA archives, backups, documentation, reports. Hosted in Europe. Or on your own platform, as you prefer.
Work described without client names, mostly subcontracted for special-purpose machine builders. The same confidentiality will apply to your projects.
Twenty years in special-purpose machinery and production lines, across a wide range of industrial environments. Non-industrial automated systems too.
Yoan Férot-MazillyAutomation engineer, owner of Industep
Twenty years in the trade, fourteen of them running an integration company: design, upgrades, engineering and commissioning of special-purpose machines and production lines, in France and internationally.
Siemens Expert training level for industrial controllers and supervision. Engineering, validation in simulation, documentation, then support through commissioning.
A pump to control, a level to monitor, a temperature to regulate, a small station to automate. Farms, workshops, small businesses, individuals: these projects matter as much as production lines, and an S7-1200 is usually enough.
On these installations I handle the complete solution, from understanding the need through to commissioning, including the panel drawing when it stays simple. Describe what you need, however modest it may seem.
Describe the machine, the need, the controller in place. I reply within one business day.