Demo of the software is available now to download from Siemens website
New features in V18:
- Higher engineering efficiency thanks to more functionalities for team collaboration. Siemens TIA Portal allows engineering efficiency and offers optimized functionalities for multi-user engineering. This means that users can now work in teams and in parallel on projects and build and manage shared libraries. Access rights can be assigned either individually or group-specifically, which makes collaboration more flexible.
- IT/OT integration thanks to extension with the IT-oriented approach of Simatic Automation Xpansion (Simatic AX). This provides IT professionals with a familiar development environment like a Visual Studio-compliant interface or project management via GitHub. The functionalities programmed in this way are created in structured text and can therefore be seamlessly integrated into the TIA Portal as libraries. The engineering platform – which was previously a standard tool used with operational technology (OT) – can now also be used by IT users without first re-skilling them. License will be required for AX extension. Currently will be only available for S7-1500 controllers.
- Advanced engineering of kinematics (5D/6D). Motion control functions up to six interpolating axes. Complex kinematics like robots can now be easily integrated into industrial processes in the TIA Portal. This allows companies to easily expand, convert, or modify their production facilities without interfering with running systems.
- maximum availability in through R1 redundancy. The Simatic S7-1500 and the Simatic ET 200SP now provide a higher computing and communication performance and support R1 redundancy. This ensures the maximum availability of applications and helps solve future automation challenges. The R1
redundancy can be easily and flexibly integrated into existing networks with no programming effort.
WinCC Unified V18
We heard from Siemens some news about new version of WinCC Unified. V18 will bring some new improvements and integration features.
- Faceplates now can be nested. That is one of the main improvements we were waiting for.
- Zoom options are improved, with 3rd party API you can use camera to detect how far person is standing from HMI and change zoom dynamically.
- You can use ready library to improve diagnostic, for example use live code viewer.
4. Support for GraphQL – 3rd application can pass parameters to and from runtime. GraphQL is a query and manipulation language for APIs. GraphQL provides a flexible and intuitive syntax to describe data requirements and interactions. It makes it possible to access many sources in a single request, reducing the number of network calls and bandwidth requirements, therefore saving battery life and CPU cycles consumed by applications.
We will update this page when we receive more information about new TIA Portal V18 and WinCC Unified V18
Information about last update of version V17 is here . About GraphQL here
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vibration analysis
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