Siemens TIA Portal Motion Control: S7-1200, S7-1500 and V90

It is for PLC programmers, commissioning engineers and maintenance staff who already program an S7-1200 or S7-1500 in TIA Portal and now meet servo and stepper axes on packaging, handling, printing and assembly machines. Machine builders and system integrators who fit the SINAMICS V90 with a Siemens PLC will find the drive, homing and commissioning modules most useful.

Yes. Every module, the notes, the worked problems, the project and the final assessment are free to learn. The TIA Portal trial and SINAMICS V-ASSISTANT are free downloads from Siemens, and the certificate is optional.

No. Every axis exercise runs in S7-PLCSIM with the axis in simulation mode, so a laptop is enough. A V90 with a 1FL6 motor, or a stepper driver on a DC/DC/DC S7-1200, makes the drive modules real. Commission a real axis only with guards and safety functions in place; the machine's risk assessment and a competent person govern real work.

TIA Portal V21 (the STEP 7 Professional trial) with S7-PLCSIM V21, and SINAMICS V-ASSISTANT for the V90. The trial lasts 21 days, so plan your practice before you install it. Motion features change between TIA Portal versions and technology versions, so the notes say what was current in October 2026 and tell you to check the manual for your version.

Take Siemens TIA Portal first if you have not yet programmed an S7 in TIA Portal. Servo Drives and Motion Control teaches servo principles across vendors, and Siemens SINAMICS Drives covers the G120 and S120 with STARTER and Startdrive. This course goes deep on the V90, the S7-1200 pulse train route, the PLCopen motion blocks, homing, tuning and commissioning a real axis.

Yes, at an introductory level. You configure speed axes and external encoders and gear a following axis with MC_GearIn, which a standard S7-1500 supports. Position-synchronous gearing and electronic cams need an S7-1500T technology CPU, so the course explains them in outline and shows when a machine needs one.

About 16 hours at your own pace, of which about 9.5 hours is video and the rest is notes, worked problems and quizzes. The optional two-axis gantry project takes about 12 hours more.

An EDWartens certificate of completion, issued when you finish the modules and pass the 15-question final at 60 percent, with a number anyone can verify on our site. It is not a Siemens certification and not a SITRAIN course; EDWartens is not affiliated with Siemens, and none of the video creators is affiliated with EDWartens.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹559 including GST for this intermediate course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.

Yes. EDWartens India runs the Automation Engineer Program (AEP), a classroom programme at its Electronic City centre in Bangalore with hands-on PLC, SCADA, HMI and drives hardware. This free course is separate and fully online; it is a good way to try the subject before deciding on classroom training. Details are at edwartens.co.in/courses/aep.