Programmable Automation Controllers

Advantech's APAX-5000 series provides open development architecture and integrates control, information processing and networking in a single control system. The APAX-5000 series features dual controllers for a variety of tasks and its versatility, flexibility and scalability can fully satisfy complicated automation industry needs. In addition, the APAX-5000 I/O modules have many attractive features such as hot swap capability, high density, clamp type terminal blocks, ID switches, LEDs, writable labels with wiring information and a flexible expansion topology. APAX-5000 series members include controllers, I/O modules, backplanes and power supply modules. It can be applied in batch process production environments like food and beverage, pharmacy, machinery control and critical environmental systems.

ADAM-5550KW Micro PAC features an AMD Geode GX533 CPU along with control specific features such as watchdog timer, battery backup RAM and deterministic I/O. The ADAM-5550KW supports 5 standard IEC 61131-3 programming languages in CE 5.0. With the optional HMI Software and built-in VGA port, users won't be required to build up additional SCADA PC's in their applications. This compact and powerful Micro PAC is ideal for up to 256 I/O point applications.