Technological requirements can be quickly and easily converted into finished executable process automation programs. The outlay for creating programs in LAD or FBD only changes slightly:

• The automation problem can already be solved by configuring. Implementation of the configuring data is made automatically.
• Safety functions are programmed by interconnecting function blocks (AND, OR, etc.). Time-consuming programming is no longer necessary. Of course, FBs created with other STEP 7 programming languages can also be integrated.
• Optimal embedding into the world of automation through guaranteed continuity with the STEP 7 tools (also to the HMI tools), automatic expansion of STEP 7 project management, sharing of signal data with STEP 7, and integration with classical programming languages, e.g. through the import of standard function blocks and FCs written in LAD.
• An executable code is generated virtually at the push of a button and transmitted online into the automation system. To generate codes, STEP 7 needs to be installed on the programming device.