You are gaining engineering productivity as there is only one tool covering the entire range of AC500 PLCs, from the compact AC500-eCo, the scalable AC500 including the safety PLC to the high availability and extreme conditions variants. As it is based on IEC61131-3 and various standard fieldbus options are included, you will experience more freedom in designing your application.
Advantages:
- Easy and fast programming in all IEC61131-3 languages plus CFC.
- Create function blocks from C code.
- Parameterization of all PLC I/O, network and fieldbus modules with specific device editors.
- Diagnostics is set up automatically for online monitoring of inputs and outputs.
- Debugging & diagnostics with multiple, comprehensive watch lists.
- Recipe management provides rapid factory or machine adaptation to changing customer and market requirements.
- Multiple PLCs in the same project are supported.
- Multiple software download to hundreds of PLCs possible.
- All AC500 communication protocols can be configured – including FTP, HTTP, SMTP, SNTP, DHCP, DNS, PING, IEC60870-5, SQL and also socket programming.
- Third party devices can be integrated on fieldbus and industrial Ethernet using electronic device descriptors.
- Data exchange with third party tools via CSV import/export.
- Extensive programming libraries are included. Optional application libraries are available.
- With the help of the integrated visualization you can conveniently create web-based HMI screens.
- The option PS541-HMI allows you to create also stand-alone visualization applications for your PC.