Your best automation option: programmable automation controllers
Programmable automation controllers (PACs) give you the best of both the PLC and PC worlds: PACs blend the PLC’s high performance and I/O capabilities with the flexible configuration and enterprise integration strengths of PCs.
- One hardware platform can be used for wide-ranging purposes with a wide variety of machines and devices.
- A single software development platform uses common tagging and shares a single database.
- Controller hardware and software are tightly integrated.
- Open, modular architectures means you can scale up your system without losing hardware investments.
- Non-proprietary standards make multi-vendor data exchange simple.
- Communication with enterprise business applications is built in, not bolted on at extra cost and effort.
- Exception-based I/O scanning and fast processing are highly efficient.
- Global, logical memory and I/O addressing means no cross-reference charts or I/O configurations limited by physical address space.
Save money with the highest-performance, lowest-cost PACs on the market
Where else can you get a complete hardware and software control and HMI package for less than $1000, including lifetime technical support? For process or discrete tasks or just about any application you have, SNAP PACs from Opto 22 offer powerful industrial control and dual independent Ethernet interfaces for network flexibility.
- The R-series PAC mounts directly on the rack with I/O modules.
- The S-series standalone PAC is an industrial controller suitable for larger, high point-count, or complex automation systems.
Use the R-series for cell control or smaller distributed applications.
Both controllers work together with PAC Project software, SNAP PAC brains (I/O processors for distributed control), and SNAP I/O to form the
SNAP PAC System
. Designed to simplify the typically complex process of understanding, selecting, buying, and applying automation systems, the SNAP PAC System makes it easy to try a new idea, upgrade to Ethernet, or expand an existing system.
Your past investments are safe
When you scale up, there’s no need to replace hardware or completely revise software. Simply add more brains to distribute control into new areas. An R-series PAC, far from being obsolete, becomes an intelligent I/O processor within the larger distributed system. And because SNAP PAC System hardware and software are tightly integrated and everything works together, the control program you developed and ran on an R-series PAC will run on an S-series with just minor configuration changes.There’s even a
migration path for older Opto 22 control system software
like FactoryFloor,
and hardware
like Optomux and mistic:
- Don’t replace your Optomux or mistic I/O systems; leave I/O and field wiring in place.
- Communicate with serial mistic I/O through the RS-485 port on the S-series SNAP PAC and PAC Project Professional software.
- Convert older FactoryFloor software to PAC Project strategies and projects using PAC Project Professional.
Replace your older Optomux brain boards with Ethernet-enabled E1 and E2 brain boards.
