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No, it will communicate using the PLC comms network which I assume is how PICS works. The PLC and networks will be set up and bench tested without any physical I/O connected. The client won't accept PLC test code that resides on the target machine.

I don't think the client would accept this - the simulation would have to reside on a seperate machine, preferably using a graphical interface.

Thanks FrancisL, I guess the problem with using code in the PLC to test the PLC code(!) is that there's a possibility that the test code is interfering with the operation of the pukka code. If that makes sense!

We're in the process of assessing PLC simulation packages to enable us to fully bench test the PLC software for a large system utilising multiple Siemens S7 PLC's. We're familiar with the PICS package but there must be others out there. Does anyone have experience of using PLC simulation and...