Entry type: Product note, Entry ID: 109752224, Entry date: 12/21/2017

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Delivery release TIA Portal V15

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Your gateway to automation in the Digital Enterprise

TIA Portal V15 offers a large variety of new functions for existing products

 SIMATIC STEP 7 V15 109752225

 SIMATIC STEP 7 Safety V15 109752229
 SIMATIC WinCC V15 109753803
 SINAMICS Startdrive V15 109752254
 SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.2 (planned for the end of March 2018)
 SIMOCODE ES V15 109752320
 Soft Starter ES V15 109753469

An overview of the new functions is available here: TIA Portal V15 new functions (8,4
MB)

Overview of products and options in TIA Portal V15

TIA Portal V15 products and options

Engineering options
TIA Portal Multiuser Engineering

TIA Portal Multiuser Engineering enables multiple users to simultaneously work together on a
project. As a result, configuration times are significantly reduced and projects can be
commissioned quicker.

The following functions are now available with TIA Portal Multiuser Engineering V15:

 Automatic marking of multiuseThe TIA Portal Cloud Connector provides access to local
PC interfaces and connected SIMATIC hardware in the TIA Portal Engineering while the
engineering itself is performed via Remote Desktop in a private cloud.r objects
 Offline working possible with multiuser engineering
 Enhanced check-in and comment functions
 Project server with extended revision history and recovery functions

TIA Portal Teamcenter Gateway

The Teamcenter Gateway enables you to save and manage TIA Portal projects and global
libraries in Teamcenter. Operator control is integrated in the TIA Portal.

TIA Portal Cloud Connector

The TIA Portal Cloud Connector provides access to local PC interfaces and connected SIMATIC
hardware in the TIA Portal Engineering while the engineering itself is performed via Remote
Desktop in a private cloud.

TIA User Management Component - New option in TIA Portal V15

The TIA User Management Component (UMC) option provided with TIA Portal V15 offers the
possibility of global user administration. Users and user groups can be defined and managed
across projects. Users and user groups can also be taken from a Microsoft Active Directory.

To take full advantage of this functionality, you need one or more UMC installations. The
software for this is already included in the scope of delivery of your TIA Portal product (STEP 7,
WinCC).

The installation of the UMC server is performed as a stand-alone installation. For the
installation, start the TIA UMC installation file "TIA_UMC_V1.exe" in the "Support" directory
of DVD 2 (STEP 7 / WinCC) on the installation medium.

Further information can be found during the setup and before installing the product. The product
TIA UMC V1 is licensed exclusively with the document "Certificate of License".

TIA Portal Openness

You can use the API interface of WinCC and STEP 7 in the TIA Portal to integrate the TIA
Portal in your development environment and automate your engineering tasks. Write your own
applications with external development environments, for example, a code generator for HMI
screens and PLC blocks.

The following functions are now available with TIA Portal Openness V15:
  Multiple API versions available

Since the Openness DLLs of V14 SP1 and V15 are included in the scope of delivery,
applications based on V14SP1 also run in V15 without modification. In order to be able
to use the functions of the V15, you must integrate the DLL of the V15 and recompile the
application

 XML representation of SCL

Both SCL blocks and LAD / FBD blocks with SCL networks can be exported and
imported as XML.

 PLC Download

S7-1500 standard PLCs can be loaded automatically. In this case, stopping and starting
the PLC is implicitly carried out. Protection level passwords and binding passwords can
be passed by the application.

 Read checksums

The checksum of the PLC standard program can be read by an offline PLC.

 ProDiag
FBs, instances and assignments can be created for ProDiag.
 System folders for UDTs

System UDTs can be accessed in the new system folder within the user data types.

 Block numbering
The automatic block numbering can be switched on and off. Furthermore, block numbers
can be changed.
 Technology objects
Openness contains enhancements for loading and saving TO cam data and for new TO
Features.
 Startdrive
DriveObjects and telegrams can be created for the SINAMICS G120 and SINAMICS
S120 drives. Selected drive parameters can be set online and offline. Loading to the
device is possible.

SIMATIC Energy Suite

As an integrated option for the TIA Portal, SIMATIC Energy Suite directly links energy
management and automation for the first time and thereby creates energy transparency in the
production system. In addition, simplified programming of energy-measuring components
significantly reduces the configuration work.

 Integrated and intuitive configuration of the energy management

 Automatic generation of the PLC energy program for S7-1500
 Archiving on WinCC Runtime Professional or PLC-internal SIMATIC memory card
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The following functions are now available with SIMATIC Energy Suite V15:
  Visualisation of Energy Data in Energy Objects requires no additional PowerTags in
WinCC RT Professiona
 S7 Energy Efficiency-Monitor for Machines (new S7 Instruction in STEP 7 Library of
TIA Portal) offers the following features:
o Production related and standardized determination of energy consumption in
machines (according measurement instruction VDMA 34179)
o Easy integration to machine controller (S7-1200/1500) and visualization of the
efficiency status directly at the machine
o Automatic long-term measurement (e.g. per shift)
o Creation of efficiency protocol (.csv) for detailed analysis and documentation
purposes

SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced

SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced enables you to create virtual controllers for simulating S7-
1500 and ET 200SP controllers and to use the virtual controllers for comprehensive function
Simulation.

The following functions are now available with SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced V2.0:

 Synchronization of S7-PLCSIM Advanced with co-simulation tools on part process

images of cyclical OBs (e.g. watchdog OBs)
 Support for acyclical services (RDREC/WRREC) and alarms (e.g. process alarms)
 Process alarms configured in the TIA Portal can be output via the API
 Simple backup and recovery of software and hardware configuration of S7-PLCSIM
Advanced instances
 Parallel installation of S7-PLCSIM and S7-PLCSIM Advanced on one PC

SIMATIC ODK 1500S

ODK 1500S enables the development of high-level language applications and function libraries
for ODK-compatible SIMATIC S7-1500 PLCs. Function libraries can be loaded and executed
directly from the user program. High-level language applications can be executed on
multifunctional platforms independently of the user program.

The following functions are now available with SIMATIC ODK 1500S V2.5:

 Development of C ++ applications for the multifunctional CPU 1518 (F) -4 PN / DP

MFP
 Development of function libraries for Windows with C# and Visual Basic
 Support of the "Variant" data type with function libraries for Windows
 A trial version (21 days) is available

SIMATIC Target 1500S for Simulink (release planned of January 2018)

Target 1500S is an add-on for Simulink from MathWorks. It enables the integration of Simulink
models directly in the program cycle of an ODK capable S7-1500 PLC.

The following functions are now available with SIMATIC Target 1500S V2.0:

 Automatic import of the generated program blocks to STEP 7 via TIA Portal Openness
 Easy, read access to all model signals and test points from the S7 program
  Execution of the model and the external mode in different OBs possible
 A trial version (21 days) is available

SIMATIC Visualization Architect

IMATIC Visualization Architect (SiVArc) enables easy, fast, and flexible automated creation of
HMI contents based on the STEP 7 user program.

The following functions are now available with SIMATIC Visualization Architect V15:

 Generation of alarms with an alarm rules editor: Bit and analog alarms, classes and
groups
 New image object: TrendControls F(t)
 Template Screens for Panels and RT Advanced: Copying from the library and assignment
to images

Runtime options

SIMATIC ProDiag

Selective and easy to configure machine and plant diagnostics for SIMATIC S7-1500 and
SIMATIC HMI.

The following functions are now available with SIMATIC ProDiag:

 Criteria analysis for ProDiag supervisions and S7-Graph

 Result of the criteria analysis within the alarm text
 Display of Predecessor/successor step within the HMI S7 Graph Overview Control
 1000 supervisions per supervision block (250 in V14)
 Identical timestamp for all identified events in a cycle
 Rapid activation of supervisions in PLC tag table, DB
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SIMATIC Energy Suite S7-1500

The SIMATIC Energy Suite Engineering comes with 10 energy objects. Additional energy
objects can be added with runtime packages.

SIMATIC OPC UA S7-1500

The OPC UA S7-1500 option enables easy connection of any third-party devices to the S7-1500
via the OPC UA server integrated in the S7-1500 CPU.

The following functions are now available with SIMATIC OPC UA with TIA Portal V15 and
Firmware V2.5:

 Creation of freely programmable OPC UA methods

 Loading of customized OPC UA information models/Companion Specifications

WinCC/WebUX
WinCC/WebUX for WinCC Professional enables monitoring and, if necessary, controlling of
plant processes over the Internet or intranet using mobile terminals. The software provides a
visualization solution that is suitable for HTML5 and SVG-capable browsers regardless of the
operating system – without any engineering work. See also

Ordering data

The products with article numbers (order numbers) are listed in the attached file.

TIA Portal V15 ordering list (46,5 KB)

Trial software download

You can find trial versions for downloading and testing of the several TIA Portal products in the
following entries (available from 22.12.2017):

 SIMATIC STEP 7 / WinCC V15 109752566

 SIMATIC STEP 7 Safety V15 109752230
 SINAMICS Startdrive V15 68034568
 SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.2 (planned for end of March 2018)
 SIMOCODE ES V15 109752321
 Soft Starter ES V15 109753470
 SIMATIC Energy Suite V15 109752539
 SIMATIC PLCSIM Advanced V2.0 109754093
 SIMATIC ODK 1500S V2.5 109752598
 SIMATIC Target 1500S V2.0 (planned for end of January 2018)
 SIMATIC Visualization Architect 109753964