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Siemens Industry Inc: Flow chart programming tool

Siemens Energy & Automation’s Industrial Software Business Unit (Alpharetta, GA) has introduced S7-Charts, a new tool that allows users to design, develop and program flow charts for Simatic S7-300 and S7-400 PLCs and WinAC PC-based control platforms.

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It provides a complete development environment for control applications, including full graphical editor for multichart programs, powerful instruction editor with compiler, and system-wide cross-referencing and tag name browsing.

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