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S7-1200 Content Guide Index

Welcome to The Automation Blog’s S7-1200 Content Guide Index, which is an ordered list of all of our S7-1200 articles and videos.

Below you’ll find over 40 of our free articles and videos listed with titles only. If you’d prefer a list with excerpts, click here.

Note: Our S7-1200/1500 Online course is now available here!


  1. Siemens – How To Find Your Local Automation Distributor
  2. Siemens – Quickly Find Documents and Downloads (D008)
  3. S7-1200 – Introduction
  4. S7-1200 – Overview (P50)
  5. S7 – Top Siemens PLC Manuals & Documentation
  6. S7 – Top Siemens PLC Manuals & Documentation (M5E26)
  7. S7-1200 – Essential Must-Have Manuals
  8. S7-1200 – Essential Must-Have Manuals (M5E27)
  9. S7-1200 – Most Helpful Siemens Links and Videos
  10. S7-1200, Basic HMI – Starter Kit (S11)
  11. S7-1200FC – Failsafe Starter-Kit
  12. TIA Portal – How To Download A Free Trial
  13. TIA Portal – How To Download A Free Trial (2023, T007)
  14. TIA Portal – Licensing and Opening for the First Time
  15. TIA Portal – How To Activate Using A USB License
  16. TIA Portal – How to install required .Net 3.5
  17. S7-1200 – How To Set The IP Address Of A New PLC (S16)
  18. TIA Portal, S7 – Add a CPU, Configure, and Download
  19. TIA Portal, S7 – Going Online, Run Mode, LED & CPU Status
  20. TIA Portal, S7-1200 – Creating your first PLC Program (S19)
  21. TIA Portal, S7 – Flashing Lights Program
  22. TIA Portal, S7 – Home Sprinkler System Program
  23. IFM, S7-1200 – Encoder to HSC (S50A)
  24. TIA Portal, S7-1200 – Signal Modules: First Time Using (S48)
  25. Siemens Distributed IO Overview (P84)
  26. Siemens Motion Control Overview (P95)
  27. S7 – How To Add Profinet I/O & Drives (S24)
  28. Tag Names – Eliminating The Need For Program Comments
  29. TIA Portal, S7 – String Selection from Binary Input
  30. TIA Portal, S7 – PID_Compact Technology Object
  31. TIA Portal, S7 – Using Function Blocks
  32. TIA Portal, S7 – Writing your first SCL Code in TIA Portal
  33. S7 PLCsim
  34. S7 PLCsim Advanced
  35. S7 PLCSim, TIA Portal v18 – Create and Test PLC Programs (T010)
  36. PROFINET Technical Overview (P53)
  37. TIA Portal, S7 – Exchange Data Between Simatic PLCs on Different Subnets
  38. TIA Portal, S7 – Read and Write to ControlLogix Tags from a Siemens PLC
  39. TIA Portal, S7 – Using the SCATTER and GATHER Blocks to format ControlLogix Tag Values in a Siemens PLC
  40. TIA Portal, S7 – Read CompactLogix or ControlLogix Tags Over Ethernet (S2E05)
  41. S7-1200, Profinet – Communicating to a Third Party Device (Q&A)
  42. TIA Portal – v18: What’s New (P132)
  43. TIA Portal – v17: Cause and Effect Matrix (P125)
  44. Siemens Products – What’s New from this week’s Virtual Tour (May 2022) (S2E03)
  45. TIA Portal – v17: What’s New (M5E14)
  46. Siemens PLCs, HMIs – What’s New (July 2020) (S43)
  47. Siemens PLCs – What’s New at MIA (June 2020)
  48. TIA Portal – v17: What’s New (P71)

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