As of October 1, 2023, Siemens has officially discontinued the development and version maintenance of Drive ES Basic Maintenance. This has several implications for long-term maintenance:
Siemens Drive ES Basic Maintenance V5.7, released in August 2021, acts as the final engineering software version for integrating legacy drive systems (MASTERDRIVES, SIMOREG, SIMODRIVE) within the SIMATIC environment. While offering Windows 10 support and better integration than free tools, it reached product discontinuation status in October 2023 and is now recommended for use in virtual environments to manage potential future OS conflicts. For official technical details, visit Siemens Support drive es basic maintenance v5.7
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Until you fully migrate, isolated from the corporate network to avoid forced updates. As of October 1, 2023, Siemens has officially
Every MASTERDRIVE or SIMODRIVE has a fault buffer (r947 for SIMODRIVE, r947 for MASTERDRIVE but different indexing). Drive ES Basic provides a formatted fault history with time stamps (relative to drive runtime). Maintenance tasks: For official technical details, visit Siemens Support ✅
: It includes DriveMonitor V5.5 SP2, which is the primary tool for managing older drive hardware.