STEP 7 Programming Made Easy in LAD, FBD, and STL: A Practical Guide to Programming S7300/S7-400 Programmable Logic Controllers

It really help me in understanding how a Siemens PLC works right on the spot! I almost finished reading it. Thank you Sir Jones! Looking forward for an advance programming book using SFCs and SFBs from you.

Loved it

I am a PLC Control Engineer and always looking to read and continue to learn this is a must have for any engineer, technician

A very complete book for step 7

Nothing more then online help, bit less actually.

I've been an electrical control engineer over 25 years. Part of my career was with machine builder / integrators and part working as an electrical control engineer in a manufacturing plant, mostly automotive. Somehow, I never had the opportunity to work with what they are call STEP 7 Pro classic and the S7-300 / S7-400 automation systems. I did get stuck helping a few plant managers out of a jam when one of their old SIMATIC S5 PLC died. Ug! I even made several system modifications to a machine with an S7-200 PLC. But until I moved to my current job / company in 2014 I had not seen STEP 7 Pro or a CPU 319F-3 PN/DP or CPU 414-3 PN/DP. Being dropped right into a demanding control engineer position where I was expected to hit the ground running became extremely stress the moment, I tried to teach myself this unfamiliar automation platform. At this point in my career I thought I had seen every style of PLC system. The Japanese have their style, so if you have worked with MELSEC A, QA, F, Fx, Q, Qu, etc. you walk up to a SYSMAC CJ2 PLC system for the first time and within a couple hours have a solid understanding. Of AB is AB and no one else in the world designs PLC that are of similar style, but they are very intuitive. There are other out there as well that have similar a style such as MODICON and GE. But even have descent knowledge of the SIMATIC S5 system or the S7-200 system does nothing to help get up to speed when you walk up to a CPU 319F-3 PN/DP system for the first time. The first thing I do when teaching myself a new PLC system is to get a good understanding of the memory structure, memory device addressing and naming conventions, I/O point naming and addressing conventions, etc. But SIMATIC Manager, the main interface for STEP 7 Pro classic was unlike anything automation system software I had encountered. I felt overwhelmed for at least two weeks. It took time to find the piece together the important information describing the S7-300 systems style. I immediately started searching Internet for Siemens documentation and 3rd party reference material. I immediately purchase Hans Berger's Automating with STEP 7 in STL and SCL and Automating with STEP 7 in LAD and FDB textbooks. They are filled with excellent information, but they are not getting up to speed quick references. If I had access to a copies of Clarence T. Jones' STEP 7 Programming Made Easy in LAD, FBD, and STL: A Practical Guide to Programming S7300/S7-400 Programmable Logic Controllers and STEP 7 in 7 Steps: A Practical Guide to Implementing S7-300/S7-400 Programmable Logic Controllers books my first two weeks getting up to speed on the S7-300 and S7-400 automation systems would have been much easier and stressful. I have since purchased both e-books. They are my most important STEP 7 reference manuals. You did such an awesome job assembling the information I'm a little jealous. Because in my last job I was focused exclusively on A to Qu MELSEC systems, so after 7 straight years I considered myself a bit of a Mitsubishi PLC guru. Back then I thought Mitsubishi systems were one of the most flexible and powerful automation platforms out there. But with Mitsubishi documentation being what it is after being translated to English, their true potential is difficult to obtain. I considered writing a book for MELSEC systems. Now after more than 5 years studying the STEP 7 Pro / S7-300/400 platforms, I don’t think there is other automation system in the world that comes close to their flexibility and power. Especially, now that TIA Portal 16 is mostly bug free and Siemens has added S7-1500 CPUs, I am certain. Being able to harness that power takes time and hard work but after spending the time to learn STL (especially indirect addressing approaching flexibility only possible with C) and SCL proficiently I'm blown away. They are awesome!Clarence, I want to thank for helping me understand them even better.

I received Step 7 programming made easy a couple of weeks ago.I’ve gone through the book and it is fantastic. I recently changed careers from an EE designing HW and SW/FW to a controls project engineer at a system integrator. I knew nothing about controls engineering and programming, was hired on my word that I could pull it off, and needed some guidance on my first project, which is a Siemens project. Thanks to this book, I’m well on my way.This first project of mine has both S7-400 and S7-300 processors/cards.

great

Disgustingly bad book. Literally Siemens S7 manual reprinted, with multiple typos and information missing. References are pointing to the figures and tables which don't exist etc. Waste of money, that's for sure. Download free Siemens manuals, don't support such a poor quality.See photo for typical example.