🚀 SIMATIC AX 2510 Release Information! 🚀
Hello fellow Software Automation Engineers! đź‘‹
Summer is over, the leaves start getting colourful and to fall off to mark the end of the year. So it is time for us to show our achievements and newest innovations to you.
1.#Supporting new PLC family
You have limited space in your control cabinet? You have a small-medium application and need to be cost efficient? Then use our ET200SP CPU and local IO modules and configure these directly in SIMATIC AX Logic Control Engineering (AX LC Eng.)!
2. #Usability Improvements in Hardware Configuration
You can now work symbolically via a generated global variable to access each individual signal.
Starting with hwc v3.3, the use of templates has been simplified; it is now sufficient to place the name of the template directly after the “Apply” keyword.​
2. #Instance Selection - Debug multiple called methods
You have multiple instances of a class in your code, but only want to debug the class of one instance? We got you!
Define the location from where the method is called (it may be called multiple times in your code)​
- Define the instance that you want to see values from​
- Combine location and selected instance or use only one of it by easy check and uncheck
3. #Introduction of PLC Online Hub
You miss a unified UI for managing PLC Connections?
Our PLC Online Hub helps you with that!
- You have a centralized connectivity UI with AX code and simplified device discovery and connection
- Improved usability as there is a single UI for online tools that is easy to access and use
4. #New and public user documentation
Finally, our user documentation is publicly available. Benefit from a new format and style:
- Publicly available, even before subscribing to SIMATIC AX Logic Control Engineering​
- Improved usability with a clear structure ​
- Common look & feel across the Siemens Automation portfolio​
- Improved search capabilities ​
- Offline capability to use documentation w/o internet ​
- Ability to store bookmarks within the documentation framework​
Check it out: https://docs.industrial-operations-x.siemens.cloud/p/simatic-ax
5. #Support of local packages in dependencies
- Experience friction-free package testing directly from your development environment.
- A simple command is all it takes:​ # Add package from parent directory or local tarball​
- >> apax add ../my-local-package or apax add ../my-local-package/dist/my-package.tgz​
- Your package is instantly ready for validation, behaving exactly as a registry package would. Iterate, enhance, and perfect your code without the overhead of publication cycles. All of this for not only the code but also contributed commands in local packages.​
🚀 If you already have access to SIMATIC AX, check out the detailed release notes in the documentation. Is it time for you to jump on the SIMATIC AX train? Contact us via siemens.com/simatic-ax and ask for access if you would like to see for yourselves.
And of course as always: Stay AXcited