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Logic Controller - EcoStruxure Control Engineering

Product Description

About EcoStruxure Control Engineering

EcoStruxure Control Engineering is a set of four software engineering tools to support the management of your PLC applications by:

  • Automating tedious tasks, such as code review and code conversion, for increased productivity.
  • Ensuring quality and consistency of your installed base, for optimised maintenance.
  • Enabling you to retrieve information from your PLC applications, especially your legacy systems, for improved understanding.
  • The tools are based on a unique technology that enables them to support the different PLC platforms in your installed base, including EcoStruxure Control Expert and EcoStruxure Machine Expert, as well as platforms from other vendors.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

Facts about EcoStruxure Control Engineering:

Verification:

Manage the quality and conformity of a control programme with a set of programming rules.

  • Dashboard view to give an overview of the evolution of application development and quality.
  • Result detail view to see all generated non-conformity messages to support the code review and improvement process.
  • Configurable rules set to enable verification based on a company or industry standard, or a default rules set is available made up of good practice programming rules.
  • Collaborative tool enabling project teams to work together and easily share results.

Converter:

EcoStruxure Control Engineering – Converter:

Automatically convert control applications for modernisation and migration projects.

  • Reduce migration time by up to 75% by automatically converting the application logic, including memory organisation, data types, structure, and languages.
  • Information provided about what needs to be reviewed manually post-conversion with a supporting knowledge base.
  • Free conversion estimate phase to provide information on the convertibility of an application for a chosen conversion path.

Documentation:

EcoStruxure Control Engineering – Documentation:

Retrieve information from an existing source code with reverse engineering.

  • Control Flow view for understanding application structure and Data Flow view for understanding relationships between variables.
  • Find all information in one place to understand the code contents, with cross-references available in Literal or Ladder for more details on the dependencies.
  • Built-in knowledge of legacy systems enabling support when original documentation is outdated or lost.

Monitoring:

EcoStruxure Control Engineering – Monitoring:

Facilitate troubleshooting of control systems with a real-time diagnostics solution

  • Automatically generated Data Flow view providing a simple representation of the variables and their influences and dependencies.
  • See the live variable values displayed on the simplified data flow view to help understand the current state of the system.
  • Possible to integrate with existing production tools such as SCADA, version management systems and communication servers for greater efficiency.

 

Benefits of EcoStruxure Control Engineering

Engineering productivity
Increase engineering productivity by automating tedious but necessary tasks to support your work.

Code quality
Improve PLC code quality for greater consistency of your installed bases and optimised maintenance efforts.

Manage obsolescence

Minimise risk related to obsolescence with built-in knowledge of legacy systems.

Flexibility
One set of software tools to manage your mixed installed bases.