Integrated Architecture in its Simplest Form
CompactLogix at the Heart of Your Machine
OEMs and end users interested in reducing cost, improving time to market and increasing productivity will benefit from the increased mid-range control system capabilities of the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture. This architecture already provides seamless integration of control and information environments, providing users with the means to make faster, better decisions with more clarity. Users with less-complex applications can now take advantage of this architecture with a suite of integrated products from Rockwell Automation, including the Allen-Bradley CompactLogix™ controller family, PanelView Plus™ 400 and 600 terminals, POINT I/O™ modules, and the PowerFlex 40® drive - all connected on a single communication network such as EtherNet/IP.
Combining this range of pre-integrated products allows you to configure devices, collect data and control machines quickly, simply and cost-effectively. Designed specifically for OEMs, our CompactLogix with Integrated Architecture will dramatically reduce your time to market, allow you to re-use programming code and has built-in diagnostic and remote access capabilities - saving you both time and money.
The Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture is an industrial automation infrastructure providing scaleable solutions for the full range of automation disciplines including sequential, motion, process control, drive control, safety and information. Unlike traditional architectures, Integrated Architecture reduces total cost of ownership by using a single control platform for the entire range of factory automation applications, large or small. This enables users to re-use engineering designs and practices to reduce development time and cost, respond more quickly to market demands, reduce maintenance costs and downtime and easily gain access to plant and production data from business systems for better decision-making.
Logix Control Platform
Whether your application is simple or complex, the Logix Control Platform improves productivity and reduces total cost of ownership. Logix controllers are available in a range of sizes and functionality, so you can choose the most cost-effective option for your application.
Unlike conventional control platforms, the Logix Control Platform provides fully integrated, scalable solutions for the full range of automation disciplines including discrete, motion, process and batch control, drive control, and safety applications using a single development environment (RSLogix 5000) and using a single, open communication protocol (CIP).
The platform enables you to re-use engineering designs and practices to reduce development time and cost, respond more quickly to customer or market demands, reduce maintenance costs and downtime and easily gain access to actionable plant and production information for improved management and decision-making.
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NetLinx
Imagine simplifying your communications with a single, open protocol from plant floor device to IT, improving flexibility and productivity while reducing cost. Imagine controlling, configuring and collecting data from any point in your system. With NetLinx open network architecture, you will.
NetLinx uses the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™) supported by ODVA, making communication between device, control and information layers seamless. With no translation, routing or special programming required, you get the real-time information you need, accessed through a communication network that supports critical business decision making.
EtherNet/IP - CIP-based network using standard, unmodified Ethernet to communicate from I/O to IT.
ControlNet - CIP-based control network provides real-time high-speed transport of both time-critical I/O and messaging data, including upload/download of programming and configuration data and peer-to-peer messaging, on a single physical media link. Deterministic and repeatable, ControlNet's high-speed control and data capabilities significantly enhance I/O performance and peer-to-peer communications.
DeviceNet - CIP-based device-level network and one of the worlds leading networks for industrial automation, DeviceNet offers robust, efficient data handling. Users benefit from ODVA's strong conformance testing policies, which ensure that products are interoperable, meaning that users can mix-and-match products from a variety of suppliers and integrate them seamlessly.
