4-Axis Control Application with Simatic S7-1500T and Sinamics S210

Position control with PLC represents one of the high complexity software applications. In this paper, the authors present a 4-axis control automation application (synchronized two by two in a master-slave relationship) using Sinamics S210 servo drives and S7-1511T PLC. The PLC controls the position of one master and the speed of the other. The application which we present is useful for master's students in the field of electrical engineering. To access an experience closer to real world applications, i.e. the study of PLC programming, PROFINET industrial communication protocol, design screens for Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and positioning applications, the students can use the proposed solution in the faculty laboratories. Therefore they can go from the development of low complexity software applications, all the way to high complexity applications.