Productive engineering | Integrated engineering for PLCs, safety, robots, motion, drives, SCADA and control panels | ◊ | ● | ● |
Integrated tool suite installation and maintenance (online and offline) | ● | ● | ● |
Project handling including project archive and backup features | ● | ● | ● |
Project lifecycle support (version profiles and project migration) | ● | ● | ● |
Native language support in EN, DE, ES, FR, CN | ● | ● | ● |
Support of standardization and re-use by flexible configurations of machine variants and advanced IO device handling | ● | ● | ● |
Support of re-use by cross project and cross Automation Builder instance copy&paste | ● | ● | ● |
ECAD roundtrip engineering - AC500 and EPLAN® / Zuken E3® | | | ● |
ECAD roundtrip engineering for 3rd party devices - PLC and EPLAN® / Zuken E3® | | | ● |
Bulk data import/export with change control to any tool via CSV (also via copy&paste) | | | ● |
Bulk data import/export of device and I/O lists and IEC 60870-5-104 | | | ● |
Change management support by project compare | | | ● |
Device type editor for Open Device Integration | | | ○ |
Virtual system testing based on Virtual Commissioning Technology | | | ○ |
Collaborative engineering support by Professional Version Control with Subversion | | | ○ |
Functional engineering with Professional Application Composer | | | ○ |
Object-oriented system design with Professional UML | | | ○ |
Control code analysis with Professional Static Analysis | | | ○ |
Optimization of runtime performance with Professional Profiler | | | ○ |
System, module and regression testing with Professional Test Manager | | | ○ |
PLC engineering (AC500 V2) | PLC application programming (IL, LD, FBD, SFC, ST) plus CFC | ● | ● | ● |
PLC firmware update, download and online change to single or several PLCs | ● | ● | ● |
PLC simulation and debugging | ● | ● | ● |
Integrated firmware identification and update (PM and CM devices) | ● | ● | ● |
Configuration of communication protocols for TCP/IP, Modbus, CS31, IEC60870-5-104 | ● | ● | ● |
Open device integration for Modbus devices | | ● | ● |
Configuration of communication protocols for PROFINET, PROFIBUS, EtherCAT, CAN | | ● | ● |
C/ C++ application programming (GNU compiler) | | | ● |
Virtual system testing including PLCs based on Virtual Commissioning Technology | | | ○ |
For: AC500-eCo, AC500 (V2), AC500-XC, AC500-S Safety, AC500 local I/O modules, AC500 extension modules |
PLC engineering (AC500 V3) | PLC application programming (LD, FBD, SFC, ST) plus CFC | ● | ● | ● |
PLC firmware update, download and online change to single PLCs | ● | ● | ● |
PLC simulation and debugging | ● | ● | ● |
Integrated firmware identification and update (PM and CM devices) | ● | ● | ● |
Configuration of communication protocols for TCP/IP, IEC60870-5-104, CAN | ● | ● | ● |
Configuration of communication protocols for PROFINET, EtherCAT | | ● | ● |
Virtual system testing including PLCs based on Virtual Commissioning Technology | | | ○ |
For AC500 V3 and supported AC500 local I/O modules and AC500 extension modules |
Safety PLC engineering (integrated solutions) | Safety PLC application programming (LD, FBD, ST) | | ○ | ○ |
Fieldbus protocol engineering for PROFIsafe | | ○ | ○ |
For: AC500-S Safety CPU, Safety I/Os and PROFISAFE devices |
Safety PLC engineering (stand-alone solutions) | Safety engineering with Pluto manager | ○ | ○ | ○ |
For: Pluto Safety PLC |
SCADA engineering | Integrated SCADA and PLC engineering with ABB zenon editor | | ● | ● |
For: ABB zenon |
Control Panel engineering | Panel configuration with Panel Builder (PB610 Panel Builder 600) | ◊ | ● | ● |
Panel configuration with Panel Builder Basic (PB610-B Panel Builder 600, basis features) for CP600-eCo | ● | ● | ● |
PLC tag data import | ○ | ● | ● |
Control panels simulation for Virtual Commissioning Technology | ○ | ● | ● |
For: CP600, CP600-eCo, CP600-WEB, PB610-R | | | |
Drive engineering | Drive application programming (IL, LD, FBD, SFC, ST) plus CFC | ● | ● | ● |
Drive management, configuration and diagnosis with common process data editor (Drive - PLC) | | ● | ● |
Drive engineering in Drive composer pro | ◊ | ● | ● |
Virtual system testing including drives based on Virtual Commissioning Technology | | | ○ |
For: ACS355, ACS380, ACS550, ACS580, ACS850, ACQ810, ACS880, DCT880 (1), ACSM1 |
Motion engineering | Motion application engineering with Mint WorkBench | ● | ● | ● |
PLC tag data import | ● | ● | ● |
Motion solution engineering with Automation Builder (*) | | | ● |
For: MicroFlex e150, Motiflex e180 | | ● | ● |
Robotics engineering | Robot engineering with RobotStudio Basic | ● | ● | ● |
Robot engineering with RobotStudio Premium | ○ | ○ | ○ |
Tag interface between PLC and robot controller | ● | ● | ● |
For: IRC5 (on selected fieldbusses) | ● | ● | ● |
Solution engineering
| Drive library (PS553-DRIVES) | ● | ● | ● |
Motion control for AC500 V2 PLCopen® Motion library (PS552-MC-E) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
Motion control for AC500 V3 (PS5520-MC) (*) | ● | ● | ● |
Solar library (PS562-SOLAR) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
Water library (PS563-WATER) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
Temperature control library (PS564-TEMPCTRL) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
BACnet communication library (PS565-BACnet-ASC) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
AC500 High Availability (HA) library | ○ | ○ | ○ |
PackML library (*) | | ● | ● |
FTP client library (PS554) (*) | | ● | ● |
Signal processing package (*) | | ● | ● |
Pumping library (PS571) (*) | | ● | ● |
HVAC library (*) | | ● | ● |
Further features | PLC Multidownload tool for large installations | ● | ● | ● |
OPC server and clients, service tool, PLC gateway, IP configuration and visualization | ● | ● | ● |
Operating systems | Recommended: Windows 7 32/64-bit, Windows 8.1 32/64-bit, Windows 10 32/64-bit |
PC requirements | Minimum: 1 GHz, 3 GB RAM, 14 GB free disk space |