I have been a Controls Engineer for over 30 years. I cut my teeth on a Rockwell SLC-500. 

I am familiar with both Rockwell and Siemens. I consider the Siemens product superior (it took a long time to come around to that) generally...but the Siemens website is the biggest trash fire I have ever seen for searching for needed downloads.

I can search for firmware and find it...for HALF the products in the Automation line. WHY IS THERE NOT A SIMPLE QUERY FOR THE FIRMWARE ON A 6SL3 514-1KE13-5AE0?

Get it together Siemens. You are better than this. Please fire the management team responsible for the schizophrenic, drunken menu and searching system.

Rockwell's PLCs may be inferior, but their terrible Knowledgebase makes this website appear like it was programmed by a drunken meerkat.

While searching these forums, you may run across several of my posts where I mention the Siemens Industry Mall as the starting point for all manner of documentation.

After pasting in the part # you are complaining about into my favorite search engine (not SIOS), and hitting the Siemens Industry Mall link for that part, it pops up and offers a link to download items from the SIOS site.

Here's a shortened version of the link: https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/products/6sl3514-1ke13-5ae0  Notice the part at the far right.  It's just the Siemens part #.  Works for all kinds of parts without the "online search".

Click the "Download" arrow beside the "Service & Support" option - usually near lower right of the device image.

Firmware you say.  That's a "download" in the "Entry type" dropdown.  Notice for the part you are complaining about finding firmware the download shows (0).  That means the shipped firmware is *the* only firmware available for that module.

And that is why you cannot find firmware for the device as the installed firmware is the latest available.

Of course, if the SIOS data is out of date, you need to submit a "Support Request" and ask them for a link to the firmware.

Greybeard

I have been a Controls Engineer for over 30 years. I cut my teeth on a Rockwell SLC-500. 

I am familiar with both Rockwell and Siemens. I consider the Siemens product superior (it took a long time to come around to that) generally...but the Siemens website is the biggest trash fire I have ever seen for searching for needed downloads.

I can search for firmware and find it...for HALF the products in the Automation line. WHY IS THERE NOT A SIMPLE QUERY FOR THE FIRMWARE ON A 6SL3 514-1KE13-5AE0?

Get it together Siemens. You are better than this. Please fire the management team responsible for the schizophrenic, drunken menu and searching system.

Rockwell's PLCs may be inferior, but their terrible Knowledgebase makes this website appear like it was programmed by a drunken meerkat.