ABB’s advanced PLC to address emerging challenges in machinery control

By admin February 12, 2015 12:47 pm IST

 Power and automation technologies provider ABB has extended the capability of one of the most popular PLCs in the world – the AC500 – with a very high performance version. The new AC500 PM595 features a multi-processor system with the performance to handle the most demanding machinery and motion automation control and communication tasks.
The new machinery controller is optimised for robust, high performance industrial control, and is built around a 1.3 GHz processor with four 32-bit RISC processors plus an embedded double-precision floating point processor, 16 MB of user program memory and a large array of communications interfaces. The very high level of computational capability allows the new controller to handle extremely complex control tasks, involving complexities such as precision coordinated motion with very large quantities of axes, and mathematics-intensive computation such as real-time trigonometric calculations for robotics or other advanced kinematic applications. The controller also has a built-in interface to allow ABB’s advanced safety PLC to be connected for high risk applications.

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