Siemens industrial automation
S7-300 on STEP 7, S7-1200 and S7-1500 on TIA Portal. New machines, running installations, and the programs nobody can read any more.
From a small standalone installation to a complete production line.
Architecture, sequential control, operating modes, safety, part traceability. WinCC Comfort and Unified HMI. Process control, PID loops and multi-zone temperature control.
Many installations run on programs written twenty years ago and patched by successive contractors. Analysis, restructuring, documentation — without changing the hardware.
S7-1200 and S7-1500 CPUs include a web server. The control logic stays in the PLC and the page is only a display: if the interface fails, the machine keeps running.
Study, development and documentation are done remotely. Commissioning is assisted and staged: a documented step-by-step procedure with pass criteria, and I guide your team or your integrator through each stage.
Every TIA Portal release from V14 onwards, and STEP 7 V5, are kept on dedicated virtual machines. I work in the version running at your site: your engineering station keeps access to the program.
A consistent in-house programming standard — naming, architecture, block library, documentation. Client standards applied in full when imposed, which is common with large accounts.
Operator-facing texts are kept outside the program. Adding a language touches neither the PLC nor the HMI structure — translation is an interface matter, not a control matter.
Each project gets a private authenticated area: versioned TIA archives, backups, documentation, reports. Hosted in Europe. Or on your own platform, as you prefer.
Work described without client names, mostly subcontracted for special-purpose machine builders. The same confidentiality will apply to your projects.
Twenty years in special-purpose machinery and production lines, across a wide range of industrial environments.
Yoan Férot-MazillyAutomation engineer, owner of Industep
Twenty years in the trade, fourteen of them running an automation integration company: design, programming and commissioning of special-purpose machines and production lines, in France and internationally.
Owner, but first and foremost hands-on — studies, programming and commissioning carried out personally. Siemens Expert training level for industrial controllers and supervision. Manufacturer training in applied process control.
Now independent, based in Madagascar, UTC+3. Invoicing in euros.
A pump to control, a level to monitor, a temperature to regulate, a small station to automate. Farms, workshops, small businesses, individuals: these projects matter as much as production lines, and an S7-1200 is usually enough.
On these installations I handle the complete solution — from understanding the need through to commissioning, including the panel drawing when it stays simple. Describe what you need, however modest it may seem.
Describe the machine, the need, the controller in place. I reply within one business day.