ABB CAI04 Easily Upgradable System Modules

The ABB CAI04 makes it easy to upgrade your system if the customer continues to use outdated equipment that is expensive – not only due to the cost of spares, but also due to reduced productivity due to proprietary communication network limitations, memory limitations, and other limitations found in older technology. If you have a control system that uses the original series, you can easily retrofit the system to a software PLC-based system with minimal redesign or disruption to your business. Then, over time, you can retrofit other parts of the system as it makes sense. In software-enabled open architectures, you have a lot of choices, whether it’s today’s technology or tomorrow’s! In other cases, depending on the age and configuration of the ab device, it may be more cost-effective to convert the logic and documentation, but replace the ab hardware.

ABB CAI04 has converted hundreds of systems, providing customers with software-based control systems that allow them to have more functionality, with minimal engineering, at the lowest possible cost. We provide our customers with software-based control systems that allow them to have more functionality, with minimal engineering, at the lowest possible cost. By bringing control system intelligence to the device level, MOVE-PLC (OEM-PLC) enables OEMs and their customers to achieve unprecedented design engineering flexibility, operational efficiency and overall system cost savings. The new field controllers can be housed in their own accessories or slotted into a select slot of a seam drive system.

The ABB CAI04 eliminates the need for a dedicated PLC system and the time-consuming drive-to-PLC interface and other programming, as well as the wiring and panel space required for a dedicated drive and motion PLC.” Powerful small PLCS, coupled with advances in industrial control system networking, underpin the development of next-generation distributed control architectures,” says Dave Ballard, U.S. Director of Marketing.” The combination of traditional PLC control and motion control, all in one compact device, will bring a wide range of operational and financial benefits to OEMs, systems integration companies and plant floor personnel.” Industry is rapidly moving towards decentralised control because of its clear advantages in reducing design engineering time and component costs and improving machine response times. It eliminates the laborious and costly process of engineering control machines to be driven in and out of order. Distributed control also reduces installation and maintenance costs. As a distributed controller, MOVE-PLC offers OEMs and system integrators a higher level of security. Centralised control systems typically provide a single point from which a person can gain access to the entire control algorithm – an effective “gateway” to the OEM’s intellectual property.