The S5 for Windows® is an excellent software tool for creating, modifying, testing, and documenting programs for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). S5 for Windows®is used to program the Siemens PLC family SIMATIC® S5 with the programming language STEP® 5. The logic presentation is available in Ladder
Diagram (LAD), Control System
Flowchart (CSF), Statement
List (STL), and Graphical Step Sequence (G5 for
Windows®)for programming, editing, and testing. Import and Export Functions are available to convert existing programs in the S5 for
Windows® format and vice versa.
In
addition, original Siemens PLC programs can be embedded into S5 for
Windows® projects without any program conversion.
Creating and Editing
The Editor, integrated under S5 for Windows®,can create, modify, and manage the contents of an entire Symbol Library, as well as search and replace functions with multiple criteria. This Editor
provides the same easy to use tools as supplied with other Windows applications. The function "Rewire" is extremely easy to use. A Syntax check for existing addresses, absolute or symbolic is also integrated.
The Editor, when used to create Ladder Diagrams or Control System Flowchart, can display complex functions. Special care has been taken to allow easy operations with the Mouse and / or the Keyboard. A Cross Reference List and / or the corresponding Symbol Library with the correct address is displayed simultaneously. The Symbol Library may be edited in its own window simultaneously. The allocation of new addresses with a syntax check is integrated.
Statement Lists may be created with the same easy to use tools of the Symbol Editor. The Windows Clipboard with the Cut-, Copy-, and Paste Functions is supported for easy Statement List manipulation. Statement Lists may be converted to Ladder Diagrams or Control System Flowchart, if they can be displayed. Converting Ladder Diagrams or Control System Flowchart into Statement Lists is always possible.
Documentation
S5 for Windows® supports the installed Windows Printer. The program created will be printed with multiple comments and preset headers and footers. The selection of font and size are obvious. A separate dialog box is provided to select groups of operands to be printed as a Cross Reference list. Open windows, such as the status window, may also be printed.
Windows-Platform
The user can select the Windows operating systems he or she prefers to use for programming. The software packages S5 for Windows® requires a 32-Bit Operating System and may be installed on PC's running Windows 95; Windows 98; Windows NT 4.x (with service pack 3) and Windows 2000.
G5 for Windows® Step Sequence Programming