Siemens TIA Portal V20 officially released, with comprehensive hardware upgrade!

In the V20 phase, Siemens will launch the S7-1200 G2, which has undergone significant upgrades and innovations in appearance, functionality, and supporting modules.

It is expected that the S7-1212 (F) C and S7-1214 (F) C series will be released in early 2025. The key updates are as follows:

Brand new design:

• New hardware design reduces track length by approximately 25%
• Significant increase in storage area
• New movable terminal
• Enhanced signal board concept, supporting up to two signal boards

Enhance connectivity:

• Body integration 2 x RJ45 (one PN port)
• PROFINET: 31 devices, supporting IRT
• New NFC function that enables CPU diagnosis on mobile devices

Motion control function:

• The motion control ability has been greatly enhanced, supporting functions such as synchronization, cam, interpolation, etc
• Can support multiple process objects (TO)

1.1.2 Comprehensive update of S7-1500 CPU

With the release of V18 and V19, S7-1516 and below CPU models have upgraded their "dual core" hardware. Based on this, V20 further optimized the performance of S7-1500's dual core CPU and high-end CPU, achieving varying degrees of performance improvement.

High end CPU hardware replacement:

The overall hardware of S7-1516T (F) and above CPUs has been replaced, and the firmware version has been updated to V4.0. The network interface and various performance have been significantly improved:

• Cancel PROFIBUS interface
• X2 interface becomes dual port and supports IRT
• Unified support for X3 interface as standard Gigabit Ethernet interface
• The storage area expansion of S7-1517/1518 is shown in the following figure

It is worth noting that S7-1518, when installed horizontally and with an ambient temperature below 50 ℃, can activate the "enhanced" mode, resulting in a 200% improvement in performance compared to before

Dual core CPU firmware has been upgraded to V4.0:

1.1.3 Update of redundant CPUs

Similar to the aforementioned CPUs, the hardware of S7-1517H and S7-1518HF has also been updated and upgraded

• Memory has been expanded, further enhancing performance
• Unified support for X3 port as standard Gigabit Ethernet interface

In addition, redundant CPUs have the following updates:

• When the main controller experiences a network interruption, move the system IP address to the backup PLC
• R-CPU supports single machine mode, making it easy to switch from single machine to redundant
• Support the expansion of memory retention for redundant CPUs through high-performance power modules

1.1.4 S7-1515SP OC3

For the open controller S7-1515SP, it will also be updated to the third generation product. Compared with the previous products, the main updates are as follows:

• Adopting 128GB SSD replaceable solid state drive
• Add an IE/PN-RT interface that can be assigned to the OS or software controller (F/T/TF)
• In terms of pre installed operating systems, in addition to the original Windows and Industrial OS, Industrial Edge has also been added
• The applicable temperature range has been expanded to -30 ° C~60 ° C, which can be used in some new application areas

1.1.5 ET 200clean

Siemens launches new ET 200 distributed IO:

ET 200clean. This series has a protection level of IP69K and meets hygiene design requirements, making it particularly suitable for industries such as food and medicine that require extremely high hygiene environments. Support S2 redundancy and multi bus communication.