Hello, just curious if anyone is aware of a way to test hardware using PLC sim. I have a simple project set up in TIA Portal V17 with a technology object to control a profidrive, and am using a Wittenstein cyber servo and Wittenstein simco drive. I don't have access to my PLC at the moment, but wanted to test this motor out and write some code for it. I suspect this isn't possible but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas about it.

Thanks!

matthewwarnock

Hello, just curious if anyone is aware of a way to test hardware using PLC sim. I have a simple project set up in TIA Portal V17 with a technology object to control a profidrive, and am using a Wittenstein cyber servo and Wittenstein simco drive. I don't have access to my PLC at the moment, but wanted to test this motor out and write some code for it. I suspect this isn't possible but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas about it.

Thanks!

Copilot answered the following:

Copilot (GPT-5)

For hardware-in-the-loop with actual Profinet IO devices (like your Wittenstein drive), Siemens recommends using SIMIT SP as a Profinet controller, or testing with a real PLC

[Link: SIMIT as a PROFINET Controller]