The book provides a complete overview of the SIMATIC automation system and the TIA Portal with the engineering tool STEP 7. \""Automating with SIMATIC\"" addresses all those who - want to get an overview of the components of the system and their features, - wish to familiarize themselves with the topic of programmable logic controllers, or - intend to acquire basic knowledge about configuration, programming and interaction of the SIMATIC components.\nAt first, the book introduces the hardware of SIMATIC S7-1200, S7-300, S7-400 and S7-1500, including the ET 200 peripheral modules. This is followed by describing the work with STEP 7 in the programming languages LAD, FBD, STL, SCL and S7-Graph, and offline testing with S7-PLCSIM. The next section describes the structure of the user program,\n\nAutomating with SIMATIC 6e \u2013 Hardware and Software, Configuration and Programming,\nHardware and Software, Configuration and Programming, Data Communication, Operator Control and Monit\nFree U;