Contiweb produces innovative solutions for automation in the printing and converting industry. High quality and innovation go hand in hand at Contiweb: The demanding machines are migrated from SIMOTION to the SIMATIC S7-1500, while the modern IT-oriented system SIMATIC AX is being introduced in the engineering process.
Objectives:

• Migration from SIMOTION/TIA Scout to SIMATIC S7-1500/SIMATIC AX
• Integrating automation seamlessly into existing workflows
• High precision and reliability of machines

Contiweb is gradually equipping its next-generation machines uniformly with the SIMATIC S7-1500. To make the migration from SIMOTION and the associated engineering system TIA Scout as simple as possible, it was obvious to rely on the new, promising IT-oriented engineering system SIMATIC AX. SIMATIC AX introduces proven methods and mechanisms from software development into the world of automation.

• SIMOTION code base in Scout Structured Text can be reused as functional code in SIMATIC AX
• VS code based engineering with SIMATIC AX allows fast ramp up of engineers
• Object-oriented programming capabilities allows more structured and modular code
• Unit Testing enables speedy tests of PLC programs without the need of a real PLC