The Engineering Software for the Basic Controller SIMATIC S7-1200 SIMATIC STEP 7 Basic (TIA Portal) is a price-optimized subset of STEP 7 Professional controller software in the TIA Portal. STEP 7 offers an engineering solution for basic automation tasks as it can be used for both, programming the SIMATIC S7-1200 Basic Controllers and configuring SIMATIC HMI Basic Panels.
SIMATIC STEP 7 Professional V15.1 is the engineering system for the S7-1200, S7-1500, S7-300, and S7-400 SIMATIC controllers, WinAC and software controllers. STEP 7 (TIA-Portal) helps you solve your engineering tasks intuitively and efficiently. Due to its integration into the TIA Portal STEP 7 offers impressive performance in every work and programming step thanks to its transparency, intelligent user navigation and straightforward workflows. Functions such as drag & drop, copy & paste and Auto Completion make work much quicker and easier.
The WinCC Engineering Software includes innovative engineering tools for the end-to-end configuration of all SIMATIC HMI devices and is available in a number of versions differentiated by price and performance. They are based on each other and are optimally tailored to the individual classes of operator panel. The larger software package always includes the configuration options of the smaller package. As of WinCC Comfort, it is possible to upgrade to the larger packages by means of PowerPacks.