Herewith Product phase-out and product discontinuation for SIMATIC IPC BIOS Manager and SIMATIC IPC Service USB Flash Drive are announced.

The Compatibility Tool is a function provided by the Industry Online Support with which you can select compatible software products or check the compatibility of existing configurations.

You can use the CAx download manager to access the latest product data for your CAD or CAE system.

Statement to China-RoHS directive for SIMATIC ( Panel, ITC, IPC, PG, ET200x, S7-xx, LOGO!, Cables, Network Compontents... ) China-RoHS SIMATIC all V1.5

Backup batteries are used to maintain basic functions in the case of a power failure. We explain here how you can determine the article number of the backup battery of your SIMATIC IPC or SIMATIC Field PG.

The following instructions show you how to find the UL certificate on our Support pages taking the example of an S7-1500 digital input module (article number: 6ES7 521-1BL00-0AB0).

PCDiagBridge is a software tool that makes available to the SIMATIC applications WinCC and WinCC flexible the diagnostics data provided by the DiagBase diagnostics software as well as messages from SITOP UPSs, WinAC RTX and WinAC RTX F.

Description Microsoft has announced the end of Extended Support for the operating systems list in Table 01. ...

Product take back is regulated separately by each member state of the EU. In Germany, the Electrical and Electronics Law (Elektro- und Elektronikgesetz (ElektroG)) of 16.03.2005 regulates this and it is the German implementation of the directives RoHS and WEEE. ...

  The 'SIMATIC IPC BIOS-Manager V3.3 (WinPE)' software, a further development of the proven tool to manage and process SIMATIC IPC BIOS data, is now available. ...

Description In a SIMATIC PC, if a RAID1 hard disk system is reported to be 'degraded', this means that a hard disk has failed in the RAID1 array. However, this does not mean that data has been lost. The PC continues to run automatically with the second, intact hard disk (RAID1 functionality). However, now there is no longer hard disk redundancy. The PC can be operated to the next suitable maintenance date. ...

SIMATIC IPC BIOS Manager V3.2 (WinPE) for SIMATIC IPC Released for Delivery

Description The IMCEA driver V1.8 update provides an enhanced WINDOWS IMCEA  PlugAndPlay driver (IMCEA PnP driver) for the SIMATIC IPC427C when operated with Microsoft Windows XP (embedded). ...

The SIMATIC IPC BIOS Manager V3.0 (WinPE) software, a further development of the proven tool for managing and processing SIMATIC PC BIOS data, is now available for downloading from the Service&Support pages of Industry Automation & Drive Technologies. ...

Description The new version of the IMCEA driver V1.7 for Windows makes it even easier to create Windows applications for the PC IO central I/O expansion of the SIMATIC Microbox PC. With the new programming interface (PC IO API) for the components PC IO BASE 400, PC IO MOD DIGITAL 010 and PC IO MOD ANALOG 020, the application developer can use function calls for the following function groups: Analog I/O functions Digital I/O functions Pt100 functions Diagnostic ...

Configuration notes: Overview of PCI slots without interrupt sharing In the example below we show the assignments of the PCI IRQ lines to the PCI slots of Rack PC 847B. Modules requiring an exclusive interrupt can be used for slot 5 or 8 and 6 or 9 in the APIC mode. ...

Description: When you install a new version of Windows, additional drivers have to be loaded from the disk for some device components during the installation process. Examples of these device components include: RAID Controller for hard disks SCSI controllers 29160 ...

Description: When you attempt to turn on the computer (Rack PC), the computer does not start up or switches off immediately. The Rack PC and the connected computer components are damaged even though the computer was switched off. ...

The SIMATIC Rack PC IL 43 (order no. 6AG4011-2....-...0) has been declared a mature product as per September 10, 2007. The type discontinuation will follow on November 1, 2007. The mounting-compatible follow-up product for the above PC is the new SIMATIC Rack PC 547B (order no. 6AG4104-0....-.......

Description: The behavior described above for the SOM application occurs when not only the language for the menus and dialog fields, but also the settings for the programs that do not support Unicode are changed to Japanese. ...