Controllers

With more than 40 years of experience in industrial automation, ABB offers a comprehensive portfolio of modular PLCs, robust human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and high availability solutions.

Its AC500 platform is recognized by manufacturers for its performance, quality and reliability. Our IP67-protected wireless I/O completes the solution for robotics and other advanced applications.  The AC500 offers a choice of several performance classes to easily build a global, scalable and adaptable automation platform, where competitors often have to multiply their ranges to provide the same functionality.

Highlights

• Programming power
• Advanced visualization
• Easy diagnostics and debugging
• Easy network and fieldbus connectivity
• Remote parameterization of ABB drives connected to the AC500

The scalable AC500 platform comes with a free license for ABB's Automation Builder programming software.

ABB's offer consists of a wide range of powerful, combinable and scalable automation products to meet all requirements.

The AC 800M controller is a family of rail-mounted modules, consisting of CPUs, communication modules, power supply modules and various accessories. Several CPU modules are available that vary in terms of processing power, memory size, SIL-rating, and redundancy support.

The 800M is an extremely powerful controller which is an integral part of the ABB 800xA platform and can also be used in conjunction with ABB CompactHMI and other third-party HMI's.

The AC 700F controller, as a member of Freelance, is a PLC-like controller with numerous advantages over a PLC based solution: The distributed control system simplifies engineering, commissioning, and maintenance of the automation system. Visualization is directly incorporated into the engineering, making configuration particularly straightforward. Plant components can be implemented cost effectively by using AC 700F.

Configuration of AC 700F is done with the Freelance Engineering Tool (Control Builder F).

This controller truly extends the hardware portfolio of Freelance distributed control system.

Apart from its highly sophisticated automation functions, the AC 900F modular controller offers expanded flexibility via a pluggable SD card, more Ethernet ports, redundancy options for high availability and power for around 1,500 I/Os. It is G3 compliant, by default, to withstand harsh environments.