Hi all. We have a job coming up lots of conveyors and simple transferring cyclinders & switches etc to other conveyors(feeding machines)- ladder all the way nothing too complicated. We were going to use the little S7 200 haven't got to S7 1200 yet. The client has S7 300 all over the factory and the system would have more or less 64 inputs 48 outputs but will be spread out in 3 panels so it was going to be 3 x S7 200 panels. Is the best solution to use the S7 300 with profibus and 2 remote IO? as I don't think the S7 200 could handle remote IO only expansion.
I have programmed S7 300 before but not profibus so am new to the profibus setup.
What is the minimum spec Cpu as the program will be simple ladder and speed is not a major issue.
Should we be looking at profinet?
Station 1 HMI + CPU + 16in/16out
Station 2 remote Io 32in/16 out
Station 3 remote Io 15in/16 out
Any thoughts would be extremely helpful.
I have programmed S7 300 before but not profibus so am new to the profibus setup.
What is the minimum spec Cpu as the program will be simple ladder and speed is not a major issue.
Should we be looking at profinet?
Station 1 HMI + CPU + 16in/16out
Station 2 remote Io 32in/16 out
Station 3 remote Io 15in/16 out
Any thoughts would be extremely helpful.