Controller’s engine portable to multiple platforms

PACSystems controllers from GE Fanuc contain an engine built on standard embedded architecture using commercial, deterministic operating systems. This makes the engine portable to multiple platforms, and allows users to choose the hardware and programming language that best suits each application.

The programmable automation controller (PAC) supports distributed I/O through Ethernet, Profibus, DeviceNet, and Genius networks. GE Fanuc’s Cimplicity Machine Edition software provides the engineering development environment for programming, configuration, and diagnostics.

High-performance RX7i was the first PACSystems platform to be released in 2003. VME64-based RX7i offers four times the speed of existing PLC backplanes, as well as up to 10 MB of memory usable for programming and documentation storage. www.geindustrial.com

• Engine portable to multiple platforms

• Supports distributed I/O via multiple networks

• Cimplicity Machine Edition software for development

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