AC500-S safety PLC and ABB safety products

From simple to complex applications

AC500-S is the integrated safety PLC (SIL3, PL e/Cat 4) for safety applications in factory, machinery or process automation area with PROFINET/PROFIsafe communication to ABB robots, ABB drives and various 3rd party devices.

AC500-S safety PLC has extreme condition variants for extended temperature range (-40 to +70 °C including freezing point), vibrations, shock, etc.

Together with the ABB machine safety sensors AC500-S makes a well proven combination for total safety solutions from ABB.

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Safety and protection

Safe solutions

Reaches the highest level of safety (up to PL e/Cat 4).
Verified and reliable safety solutions.
Extensive fault detection.
Several different types of safety sensors and devices available to suit all safety needs.

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Cost effective solution

Flexibility in installation

Ability to do your safety sensor wiring on safety I/O terminal units even without safety I/O modules, which allows outsourcing wiring jobs and save your engineering costs.
Time savings on safety loop calculations due to common data base in ABB FSDT (Functional Safety Design Tool).

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Easy to install

Developed with installation in mind

Easy connection with M12 connectors.
A wide range of adapters and connectors to simplify wiring.
Minimum amount of cabling simplifies installation.

F-Device and F-Host

AC500-S CPU can simultaneously act as both PROFINET/PROFIsafe F-Device and PROFINET/PROFIsafe F-Host.

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AC500 and safety products

In order to supervise ABB safety sensors using AC500 the following units are required:
• AC500-S safety CPU (SM560-series)
• AC500 CPU (since AC500-S is not a stand-alone PLC)
• AC500-S safety I/O modules (to connect the safety devices)