Communication between System 800xA and

AC500 PLC

Communication between the AC500 function

blocks and the objects in System 800xA uses the

PLC Connect option of System 800xA and the

AC500 OPC Server.

Simplified engineering

The Process Control Objects (PCO) library for

AC500 V2 contains a function block for each

object. The control task is engineered with the

AC500 engineering tool Automation Builder.

The communication between the objects in Sys

tem 800xA and the function blocks in AC500 is

configured with Bulk Data Manager, which is part

of the System 800xA Engineering toolset. A li

brary with ready-made symbols and faceplates

for the objects is available for System 800xA engineering.