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Published inJun 2023
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ISBN-139781800569386
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Olushola Akande
Olushola Akande
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Olushola Akande

Olushola Akande is an industrial automation and robotics expert with over 10 years of experience in the design and development of automation and robotics-related projects. He is an industrial automation trainer and consultant with a passion for driving industries to achieve greater results by doing work more accurately with less effort of human control. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Showlight Technologies Limited, an industrial automation, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) training and servicing company in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a member of the Schneider Electric team involved in the installation of Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSSs), which includes high-integrity PLCs, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and distributed control systems (DCSs) at the largest oil refinery in Africa (Dangote Oil Refinery) at Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Downloading and installing TIA Portal V13 Professional and PLCSIM

Siemens offers a 21-day free trial of their programming software (TIA Portal). There is also a simulator that allows you to simulate your program. Hence, you can write a program and see how it runs even when you don’t have a live PLC by using the simulator (PLCSIM). You can download both TIA Portal V13 Professional and PLCSIM free online and use it to learn PLC programming.

Downloading TIA Portal V13 and PLCSIM

The following steps should be followed to download TIA Portal V13 and PLCSIM:

  1. The first step is to visit the download page. The following link should take you to the download page:

    https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109745155/simatic-step-7-including-plcsim-v13-sp2-trial-download?dti=0&lc=en-WW

    The following screenshot shows the page of the preceding link:

    Figure 8.18 – Download page of Siemens TIA Portal V13 Professional and PLCSIM (1)
  2. Scroll to the STEP 7 Professional V13 SP2...

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Olushola Akande

Olushola Akande is an industrial automation and robotics expert with over 10 years of experience in the design and development of automation and robotics-related projects. He is an industrial automation trainer and consultant with a passion for driving industries to achieve greater results by doing work more accurately with less effort of human control. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Showlight Technologies Limited, an industrial automation, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) training and servicing company in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a member of the Schneider Electric team involved in the installation of Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSSs), which includes high-integrity PLCs, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and distributed control systems (DCSs) at the largest oil refinery in Africa (Dangote Oil Refinery) at Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, Nigeria.
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