The Siemens SIMATIC S7-300 PLC is present in many automation applications around the world and has proven itself millions of times over.
Installed in many machines currently in production and an automaton model that has an expiration date, so it is convenient to take it into account in order to plan their migration or the collection of spare parts necessary to guarantee a good operation of machines and processes where they are currently. installed.
As already happened with SIMATIC S5 whose life cycle ended on October 30, 2020, the SIMATIC S7-300/ET 200M system families will be available until October 1, 2023.
Following the publication of a product discontinuation announcement, the respective product will be available as a spare part for a period of 10 more years until 2033.
SIMATIC S7-1500 together with the TIA Portal software are replacements for S7-300. New projects have been carried out with this model for some time, but if machines with S7-300 are available, the migration should be planned in the medium term.
Here we show you some information on how to successfully face this migration.
How to migrate a Siemens S7-300 PLC to S7-1500?