In this lesson, we are going to begin to discuss how to update the hardware catalog in your STEP7 software. As you may know, the hardware catalog is the section in your program where you select specific modules with matching catalog numbers that will be used within your control system.
These include discrete and analog I/O modules, communication processes, power supplies, etc. Hardware updates are an important part of keeping your programming environment up to date with the latest versions.
Let’s open up this lesson and see how you can update your hardware catalog.
In a previous lesson, we discussed how to update the hardware catalog within your STEP7 programming environment.
In this lesson, we are going to continue the discussion of how to update the catalog as well as give you some insight as to the useful information that can be found within the hardwa...
In the last few lessons we have been discussing various ways of updating the hardware catalog in your STEP7 software. This lesson is a continuation of that subject, focusing on how to update the hardware catalog while not having current internet access.
Of course, you will first need to obtain t...
In previous lessons, we’ve discussed updating the hardware catalog in STEP7 software. We continue the discussion on the various ways of updating the hardware catalog but this time in the TIA Portal environment. In this lesson we show you how to download and install the hardware updates while havi...