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Rockwell Automation incorporates more than 30 product enhancements into latest version of Rockwell Software RSLogix 5000 Programming Software

Industry-leading control system design and configuration software helps increase productivity while streamlining controller setup, installation and maintenance

The latest version of Rockwell Software RSLogix 5000 software includes more than 30 product enhancements that help users simplify programming and configuration, and ease maintenance and troubleshooting of control and information systems.

The key enhancements in RSLogix 5000 Version 16 include:

User-defined add-on instructions — This allows users to create custom instructions that augment the robust set of built-in capabilities already provided by the Logix Control Platform, making it simple to create standardised libraries that can both reduce project development time and provide consistency to reduce equipment startup and training expense.

Integrated drives configuration — RSLogix 5000 now includes full configuration and download support for the Rockwell Automation PowerFlex family of drives, simplifying the management of drives in a control system by putting everything that’s needed into a single software package.

Kinematics robot control — Ideal for packaging pick-and-place and other complex motion control applications, Kinematics robot control allows ControlLogix and GuardLogix users to control and coordinate up to three axes, all within a single software and hardware architecture. This eliminates the expenses for additional robot controllers, and reduces software, training and integration time.

RSLogix 5000 FuzzyDesigner — Offered as an add-on option to Version 16, this feature allows users to create fuzzy logic algorithms for use in any of the Logix PACs. FuzzyDesigner offers a fuzzy logic design environment, which helps create advanced control capabilities through a rule-based decision-making process, eliminating the usual detailed programming process. This reduces development time, improves maintainability and eases fuzzy logic control setup.

Usability and productivity — RSLogix 5000 now provides a range of tools to reduce system development costs, including: extensions to the Function Block Diagram (FBD) language to increase the number of blocks that can be incorporated into a sheet; user created instruction default settings for FBD blocks and Sequential Function Chart (SFC) components; project automatic save and recovery to reduce the likelihood of lost work; extensions to import/export to simplify moving information between projects and to automate some development tasks; and configuration options to help improve capacity and determinism.

Logix alarm instructions — Version 16 of RSLogix 5000 and the instruction set in the Logix PACs now includes both digital (ALMD) and analogue (ALMA) alarm instructions, replacing custom-built application code with standard instructions that provide additional functionality. The result is reduced application development time, and the minimising of errors that can occur through code duplication. System maintenance is simplified because the single instruction approach is more easily understood than a block of custom code.

ControlLogix 1756-L64 — With user memory doubled to 16 MB, this ControlLogix option allows users to include extra instructions, alarms and events to meet the needs of more sophisticated applications. Additionally the additional memory makes the controller ideal for use in the ControlLogix redundancy solution.

Upgrade your current version of RSLogix to this new software now, before is affects your plant's productivity. For information on your options available as how to upgrade your RSLogix please call 01908 627 610 or email.