Your S7-1200 Strategy

Integrating S7-1200
into your
Product Lifecycle

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Integrating the S7-1200 into your Product Lifecycle

Lifecycle Management of Automation Equipment
Depends on demand for end products or automated process
Depends on technology innovations

SIMATIC PLM
Overview

Depends on the return on investment on your machine

Changes should be your decision based on your business!

When should you consider the S7-1200?

When it makes sense in your Product Lifecycle
To improve your processes
To improve your competitiveness
To improve your profitability

Does the S7-1200 make sense for you?

Can you benefit from the new S7-1200 innovations?
Does your application fit the current S7-1200 capabilities?
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Can you benefit from the new S7-1200 innovations?

New S7-1200 offers the following benefits over the S7-200
Integrated PROFINET (Industrial Ethernet)
Reduces

S7-1200 USA Pres s

Releas e

hardware costs

More functionality on the lower end modules

Not

forced to buy more expensive controller for additional ports or analog

Reduces

hardware costs

New I/O modules have stacked terminal blocks

Saves

space in the cabinet

Reduces

panel costs

Removable connectors for all hardware

Simplifies

Maintenance

More built in functionality

Increased

number of PID loops

Increased

performance and available memory

High

Precision Instructions (64-Bit Real)

STEP 7 Basic - Integrated Software Environment for Controller and HMI

Reduces
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development costs
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Integrating the S7-1200 into your Product Lifecycle

The S7-1200 product family will be launched in several
phases
During each phase, more functionality/products will be added to the
family.
It will take some time before the S7-1200 can realize all the
application spaces that the S7-200 can accomplish today.

The S7-200 system family is an important part of our

mainstream product range and the system will remain
available as a mainstream product at least up to 2012.

S7-200 Cus tomer

Letter

S7-200 Product
Bulletin

If it is decided to phase out the S7-200 system, it will remain

available as a replacement part and supported for 10 years
following the phase out announcement.
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Does your application fit the current S7-1200 capabilities?

Overview: S7-1200 1st Release Limitations (in order of
importance)
No AC-Inputs
No Text Display (TD) compatibility
No Temperature (RTD/Thermocouple) modules
No High-Density Analog I/O modules
No IT module (no e-mail, no std or configurable web server, no ftp)
No Profibus Slave, No ASi, No SIWAREX modules
No Retentive Data after a program edit/download
(every download erases all data Cold Start)
No Bumpless Runtime Edits
No Data Logging or Recipes to/from a *.CSV file
No 10A isolated relay module
No High-Density 32-DI/32-DO/Rly discrete modules

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How can Siemens help?

Siemens will offer several tools to aid in S7-200/S7-1200 migrations
S7-200 to S7-1200 application code migration utility
This tool will be to convert existing S7-200 ladder logic (Oct 09 SP1)
S7-200 to S7-1200 Transition Reference Guide
Whats New; Whats Different; Whats Missing?
Application Engineering Support

S7200 to S71200
Trans ition

Consulting support on when to migrate

Consulting support during actual migration
Solution Partner
Trained Solution Partners in your area to help support or perform
migrations

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