February 12, 2009 – A color touchscreen, full PLC functionality, on-board I/O options, and built-in recipe capability are just a few of the benefits of the new Vision570, an all-in-one compact controller currently being released to market by Unitronics.The convenience is clear. Machine manufacturers and system integrators can add, with a single product, both a brilliant color touchscreen and a PLC to their systems—with no extra labor, wiring or cost.The Vision570 offers a rugged 5.7" QVGA, 256-color TFT touchscreen.
Over one thousand displays and hundreds of highly detailed color images can be used in a single application. The memory holds 2MB of application memory, plus 1MB for fonts and 6MB for images; future releases will include SD card memory storage support. The controller is fast, scanning 1K of a typical application in 0.9µsec, making it a natural for ‘rapid response’ applications such as packaging machines.
Industrial control processes can now rely on a single device: the Vision570 can use 20 auto-tuned PID loops to control temperature, level, and pressure, while the color touchscreen displays data, color trend graphs, and red, attention-grabbing alarm screens.Communication options include TCP/IP Ethernet, cellular, and industrial protocols such as MODBUS and CANopen. In addition, the Vision570 can be ‘taught’ to communicate via almost any device-based protocol.Like other members of the Vision series, Vision570 supports digital, high-speed, and analog I/Os, as well as direct temperature measurement inputs.
VisiLogic free software provides one user-friendly environment for hardware configuration, modular Ladder application development, and HMI design, including a rich color library of industrial images. The Vision570 reduces overall system costs by cutting programming time, minimizing hardware requirements, saving cabinet space—and, above all—exempting the user from setting up Panel-PLC communication.