Automation and Control

Question 1

What products are offered under automation and control?

Answer 1

Programmable controllers
Industrial PCs / HMI’s
Remote I/O

Question 2

Qualifying questions for HMI’s and IPC’s?

Answer 2

What display size do you need?
What kind of interfaces do you need?
What screen resolution is needed?
What is the type of housing material?
What mounting style is needed?
What are your approval (UL) requirements?
What temperature ranges are required?

Question 3

Qualifying questions for programmable controllers?

Answer 3

Is your application a simple automation, such as relay or timer counter replacement?
Is your application IIoT- or data handling-oriented?
Would it benefit from using Higher Level Languages (HLL), i.e., Python, Node Red, C-, instead of or in addition to
ladder programming?
Do you want to program your application in only traditional ladder programming?
How much I/O do you need?  How much memory do you need?
How many Ethernet ports do you need?  Hazardous Location?
What speed is required by the Ethernet network?  Do you need a fieldbus? Which one?

Question 4

Types of programmable controllers?

Answer 4

Nanoline (Simple automation)
Nanoline expansion I/O - Can add up to 3 modules to base
PLCnext family (Traditional and HLL, IIot
ILC family )Traditional only