TIA Portal V14 New Features

TIA Portal V14 new ‘Search in Project’ function

This is a global, project – wide search for HMI and PLC objects. Easily accessible from the tollbar (1). Results can be filtered by the area of search (2) and/or type of searched object (3):

“GO TO” function is available by double clicking on the search result (or right-click -> ‘GOTO’) in the search result area:

TIA Portal V14 new Project – Wide cross-reference

This is definitely one of the most welcomed upgrades in V14!

Objects (like tags) used in both PLC and HMI will display it’s reference location on both devices. To give you an idea of how this works I’ve created, in both V13 and V14, a tag and assigned it to a switch object on the HMI root screen:

As you can see, in V14, Tag_1 is highlighted in PLC’s DB, but the cross-reference also displays tag’s usage in the HMI as well as ‘GOTO’ link to where it’s defined in the HMI tags list.

TIA Portal V14 new SCL Networks in LAD/FBD Block

Another good (and overdue!) improvement.

Simply right-click on a network in LAD/FBD block and choose ‘Insert SCL network’:

TIA Portal V14 new Regions (i.e. Networks) added to SCL

We can now create regions in our SCL Code by using ‘REGION’ instruction. There is also a simple Region management panel to the left of your code:

TIA Portal V14 new Improved Help/Information system

Finally! The “help” doesn’t look/feel/behave like an application designed in the previous century. Some of the new features include having multiple tabs (;-)), advanced search, favourites and filtering results by device:

TIA Portal V14 Support for new hardware

• S7-1500 T CPU – Dedicated to new motion control functions
• 1518(F)-4 PN/DP CPU – support for C/C++ functions created in Open Development Kit
• 1516 pro CPU – Distributed Controller based on SIMATIC ET 200pro
• S7-1500 Fail-safe Software Controller
• Fail-safe CPU 1212 FC

Operating systems and recommended hardware

Supported operating systems (64 Bit only)

Hardware requirements

Siemens recommends SIMATIC Field PG programming devices as a powerful and rugged platform for STEP 7 Engineering Software, especially when your engineering station is also used for commissioning, servicing and maintenance of your automation system.
Yet of course you can use any PC that meet the requirements below

•  more information on SIMATIC Field PG M5

Feature	recommended
Processor	Core i5-6440EQ, 3.4GHz
RAM	16 GB
HD	SSD with at least 50 GB of free space
Screen resolution	1920 x 1080 px