Client-Server Application for the Operator Panel Weintek and the Control System Siemens Simotion

This article describes the communication between the Weintek touch panel and the Siemens Simotion programmable logic controller. This communication is based on the Client-Server architecture. These particular devices from these particular producers ordinarily are not supposed to communicate between each other. With a designed application this communication is possible. Because of this, it is possible to use a robust Simotion control system together with the affordable Weintek HMI. The theoretical part explains how the Client-Server architecture works. The experimental part includes a working application with the above-mentioned communication between the operator panel and the stand for the dynamic test of electronic cams. This method can be applied subsequently in other diagnostic and control applications.