Learn Siemens PLC & HMI 2026: TIA Portal V20 Complete Course

Define the programmable logic controller (PLC) and contrast it with classic control using relays and timers. See how PLCs cut wiring, simplify troubleshooting, and enable tag-based software control and alarms.

Explore plc components: cpu, memory, power, digital and analog input/output, communication, motion control, and special modules, and compare modular versus compact types for large versus small systems.

Explore how a plc works, from power and cpu to input and output modules, memory, and ethernet connectivity with the human interface device.

Choose the right Siemens compact vs modular plc for learning, exploring S7-1200 1215C, DC-DC vs AC-DC relay inputs, and the role of remote I/O, memory, and expansion options.

Power up a Siemens S7-1200 PLC and wire digital inputs with 24V DC using external or internal power. Explore input concepts and 3D wiring diagrams.

Explore sinking versus sourcing in PLC wiring. Learn how input wiring, optocoupler isolation, and sensor type (NPN or PNP) align with PLC input configurations.

Explore NPN vs PNP sensors, their three-wire wiring with brown, blue, and black, and how sourcing or sinking PLC inputs determine current flow and signaling.

Explore analog inputs and sensors, including thermocouples bt100, temperature measurements, and pressure and level sensors, and compare two-, three-, and four-wire transmitters with PLC wiring per the datasheet.

Explore digital outputs in PLC wiring, covering DC and relay outputs, power supply connections, common L and L2, and wiring LEDs or relay coils so the PLC can energize them.

Connect the analog output by tying the device's negative to the common and wiring the signal to the output; use 0-10 V DC or 4-20 mA to control the load.

Explore the differences between ladder diagrams and schematic diagrams, and see how normally open and normally closed contacts, stop/start buttons, and a coil energize a motor via PLC.

Learn how a latching circuit uses a relay coil and inner contact to hold a motor on, via a parallel path with a start button and a stop button.

Simulate normally open and normally closed contacts in TIA Portal ladder logic, mapping inputs to outputs and LEDs, and understand how signal flow in the PLC ignores input color.

Explore the tia portal version 20 interface, create a new project, switch to project view, and add a Simatic S7 1200 PLC with 1215 C DC-DC relay and firmware 4.6.

Connect a Siemens PLC to your PC via ethernet or a simulator in tia portal. Power up the PLC, configure the IP, and identify the device with a flashing LED.

Troubleshoot PLC connections in TIA Portal using the info window, diagnostics, and help viewer to diagnose not reachable errors, then restore online status by reconnecting the Ethernet cable.

Map physical inputs and outputs inside the Siemens plc using global memory and the process image, and assign byte and bit addresses like %I0.0 and %Q0.0.

Learn to create and download your first TIA Portal PLC program using 0.0 input and Q 0.0 output, with tags like start, green LED, and yellow LED.

Apply and stop forcing inputs and outputs using the force table; select addresses, set values, and observe how forcing overwrites the program while using watch tables for monitoring.

Learn to use memory bits in plc programming, replacing physical inputs with global memory addresses (m bits), build latching circuits, and control motors in simulation.

Add a new HMI in TIA Portal, connect it to a PLC over Ethernet, map HMI tags to PLC tags, and simulate screens with buttons and LEDs.

Explore the four Siemens TIA blocks—OB, FC, FB, and DBs—focusing on the program cycle OB1, calling blocks, and using global and instance data blocks for organized PLC programming.

Learn how set and reset instructions create reliable latching in Siemens TIA Portal, including data storage bits, start/stop conditions, and avoiding simultaneous set and reset.

Explore positive and negative edge trigger instructions in PLC programming, including rising pulse behavior, one-shot timing, and practical tag setup for indicators.

learn to build a toggle pushbutton project in siemens plc and hmi using tia portal v20, turning a single button on and off via set/reset and a latching circuit.

Create practice TIA Portal project, add a function block and global data block, and implement toggle push button with a toggle hold and positive trigger to drive led in simulation.

Learn how to configure a pulse timer in TIA Portal, set presets, read elapsed time, and reset pulses using data blocks, enable bits, and a timer reset instruction.

Learn the on delay timer in TIA Portal by creating a timer on delay data block, wiring it to switch five and a white LED with a 10-second preset.

Explore configuring an off delay timer in TIA Portal, wiring a normally open contact to the start button, and keeping the green LED on for a preset delay after release.

Learn how the retentive on-delay timer in TIA Portal retains elapsed time, accumulates duration, and does not reset on disable, with examples using data storage, tags, and a reset input.

Discover why certain time instructions are confusing in TIA Portal V20 and adopt clearer pulse timer strategies using parallel timers and traceable energizing sources for the Apple LED.

Show counter up operation in Siemens portal, configuring a data block with normally open contacts, a reset, and a white led that activates as current value reaches the preset.

Explore the counter down block in TIA Portal: load a preset, count down from four to zero, and energize the apple LED when the value is zero or negative.

Explore the counter up down data block, handling count up, count down, reset and load with a preset value, and observe Q up and Q down driving LED indicators.

Master basic comparator operations in Siemens PLC, including equal, not equal, less and greater than, and in-range checks; connect results to LEDs using data storage for integers and doubles.

Explore Siemens PLC math instructions in TIA Portal V20, including add, multiply, minimum, and other functions; learn to configure data storage, local statics, and outputs for practical PLC calculations.

This lecture explains how the move instruction copies a single data element, and how the move block copies arrays using a count, with hands-on TIA Portal examples.

Learn how to use conversion operations in TIA Portal to convert data types and apply rounding, ceiling, and floor to integers and real numbers.

Implement a timer and counter based system to track days, hours, minutes, and seconds, triggering a service LED at 25 days 10 hours and reset with a 3-second push button.

Build a start-stop machine control in tia portal v20 using a retentive timer to track running time and count minutes, hours, and days, with a reset sequence and service LED.

Explore how normalize and scale blocks map analog inputs, such as 4–20 mA or 0–10 V, to a desired range using a two-step normalize and scale equation.

Learn to convert an HMI input to an analog PLC output that drives a motor via a VFD. Map 40.3 Hz to 6.71 V and 60 Hz to 10 V.

Master analog scaling in TIA Portal by normalizing inputs before scaling, mapping 0–10 V or 4–20 mA signals to temperature using data storage tags and raw value handling.

Understand how an analog input card in an S7-1200 normalizes and scales a 0–10 V signal to 0–27,648 for the CPU in TIA Portal V20.

Learn how to use program control operations in ladder logic, including jump, jump list, switch, and return, with hands-on examples of labels, tags, and skipping networks.

Master the return (RET) instruction in a cyclic plc program and learn how it returns to the main program to skip downstream rungs using a local boolean tag.

Learn ladder logic loop creation with the jump instruction in TIA Portal to compute base to the power of a number, demonstrated in this Siemens PLC & HMI course.

Explore PID controller theory from open vs closed loop control to proportional, integral, and derivative actions, and implement PID in TIA Portal using an organization block with a cyclic interrupt.

Implement a pid controller to regulate temperature with a pt100 sensor and ac fan in tia portal v20, including wiring, scaling, setpoint handling, and invert control logic.

Explore how to set up a Siemens KTP 700 basic HMI within a PLC network, including USB and Profinet transfers, IP configuration, and on-device settings via the HMI menu.

Learn how to download a project to a Siemens HMI in TIA Portal, selecting the HMI, loading the device, upgrading firmware, and installing panel images for the CTB 700 basic.

Learn to create and connect HMI tags with a momentary push button in Siemens TIA Portal, manage default and custom tag tables, and synchronize PLC tags.

Learn to configure a switch element, appearance, and visibility in an HMI, assign tags for an emergency switch and red LED, and simulate with a PLC in TIA Portal V20.

Explore creating and using pump graphics in the Siemens TIA Portal V20 HMI, using graphic lists, drag-and-drop assets, and tag-based on/off states (0/1) to visualize motor status, with simulation.

Configure a Siemens io field as a numeric input, assign a tag to a timer using dint or time data types, and enable a boolean while simulating elapsed time.

Explore the symbolic I/O field in Siemens PLC and HMI design, including four modes, text lists, pump status, and emergency switch integration with TIA Portal V20.

Configure the graphics io field in tia portal v20 as input or output using a graphic list. Tag a motor and simulate state graphics to write data to the PLC.

Demonstrates creating a water tank level visualization with a bar indicator, linking an elapsed timer, and scaling from 0 to 100% using normalize and scale blocks in TIA Portal.

Discover how to add and animate a gauge on a basic Siemens HMI panel by importing libraries, upgrading to version 20, and testing with PLC simulation.

Explore TIA Portal animations: use feedback signals from sensors or create looped signals with counters and clocks to drive rotating fans and actuators on the HMI, with data storage tags.

Explore how to animate a linear actuator using a servo motor in Siemens TIA Portal, control with encoder or buttons, implement 0–5 range counters, comparators, and live PLC simulation.

Master screen navigation in a Siemens PLC HMI course: create screens, add buttons, and use activate screen by number plus a drop-down screen list with simulation.

Explore function keys on HMI panels in TIA Portal, comparing local assignment versus global assignment, and apply them to motors, emergency switches, and toggles in simulation.

Learn how to configure global and local function key assignments in TIA Portal, using the global screen to assign navigation, login, brightness control, and alarm handling.

Learn to create and customize a real-time trend in the HMI screen, bind it to a tag, configure limits, colors, and time axis, and simulate data.

Learn data logging in Siemens PLC and HMI using TIA Portal v20. Create and manage tank level logs with historical data, circular and segmented circular options, and on-demand logging.

Understand how safety circuits isolate inputs and outputs, use two-channel emergency stops and redundancy in safety PLCs to stop machinery, and why certified safety standards matter.

Learn alarm design in the TIA Portal, including trigger logic, tags, sirens, silence and reset, and apply to a four-level tank case study.

Set up four alarms in the TIA Portal with a latching trigger, boolean and integer tags, and five-second timers, then route alarms to a siren output.

Configure alarm action plans in the TIA Portal to control fill and discharge valves for high-high, high, low, and low-low alarms, then implement silence logic to mute the siren.

Design and implement alarm reset logic in Siemens PLC and HMI using manual and auto reset, including reset button wiring, normally open and normally closed contacts, timers, and latching circuits.

Demonstrates testing high and low alarms in a simulated PLC environment, verifying auto reset, manual reset, and silence behavior while observing valve and siren actions.

Learn to implement auto reset for the silence command in Siemens PLC and HMI using a timer, along with normally closed contacts and no alarms condition.

Create and connect a hmi alarm tag to the plc tag, map alarm texts to 16-bit trigger bits, and classify each as error or warning for effective hmi notifications.

Configure alarm classes in TIA Portal to set background colors for incoming, outgoing, and acknowledged alarms, using red for errors and yellow for warnings.

Learn to configure and test alarms in the TIA Portal HMI, including silence and reset buttons, alarm colors, buffers, auto reset, and pop-up versus window alarms.

Configure pop up alarms, alarm windows, and indicators in the global screen; tailor pending alarms, alarm buffers, and warning/error displays using dedicated alarm screens for HMI simulations.