S7-200 and WinCC Flexible. How to Make a Communication? Tutorial 1

With the WinCC Flexible Runtime, you can control, monitoring … the controller (PLCs) on your computer. In this post, we will guide you to communication between S7-200 and WinCC Flexible 2008 SP5.

WinCC flexible Runtime 2008 SP5: WinCC flexible Runtime is a high-performance and comprehensive software for the visualization of processes in projects you created with the WinCC flexible Advanced programming software. When you install WinCC flexible, the “Runtime” is include.

S7-200 PC Access V1.0 SP6: The software application that enables you to extract data from S7‑200 PLCs. You create tags for the PLC data and use the included test client for the PLC communication.
Step7 Micro/WIN V4.0 SP9: The programmable software for S7-200 PLCs.
You can download all software above at the download area of 365electricalvn by following the links below. After downloading the software, please install all in one computer.
The laptop with Windows 7 SP1, 32-bit operating system
A controller (S7-200 CPU 224 CN) for communication PLC with WinCC flexible
A Siemens USB/PPI Multi-Master cable
Accessories: 24VDC power, wire …

To connect S7-200 with WinCC flexible 2008, we need working on all software listed above.

Create and save the S7-200 project for your application.
Compile and download the project to the controller (PLC).
Note: Create the symbol table for all variables, input, output (V, M, I, Q …), it helps you easily to manage, control, monitoring … on next step.

Open the software. Click on “File” -> “Import symbols …”. And then browse to the S7-200 project file (.mwp) created on the previous step.
On project tree, click to the name of the symbol table. All symbol will show on the screen.

This tutorial pauses here, on next post we will continue with the steps on WinCC flexible 2008 SP5 software.