Distributors News. December, 2004 Unitronics has announced a major market release. The release includes:

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1 MAJOR RELEASE VISILOGIC 4.00, VISION 290, REMOTE ACCESS 4.00 & DATAXPORT 2.00 Unitronics has announced a major market release. The release includes: PID: includes internal Auto-tune Trends: Real-Time HMI Graphs Vision 290: Touchscreen + Virtual Keyboard, VisiLogic support Expanded Memory Operands Formula: build your own mathematical function Enter AlphaNumeric String via Keypad Interrupt High-Speed Counter Immediate: Write to Physical Analog Output PID: FB with Internal Auto-tune Trends: Real-Time HMI Graphs VisiLogic support for Vision 290: Touchscreen + Virtual Keyboard Expanded Memory Operands New FBs Draw Axis The PID FB enables you to use system feedback to continuously control a dynamic process. The purpose of PID control is to keep a process running as close as possible to a desired Set Point. VisiLogic's PID FB includes auto-tune. Trends functions enable you to display dynamically changing values on the Vision screen in response to application conditions. The values input to Trends may come from: Registers Data Tables To provide background axes for Trends, use the Draw Axis functions or the HMI utility Draw Static Axis. The Vision290, now fully supported by VisiLogic, has the largest embedded touchscreen of the Vision models, measuring cm (5.7''). In addition, the V290 offers a touchscreen virtual keypad that replaces the standard embedded keypad offered by other Vision models. The virtual keypad opens whenever the user touches a keypad entry variable. This keypad functions just like the embedded keypad, enabling you to key in data and assign touch properties. Note that in order to enter Information Mode, you touch the V290 s touchscreen in an area that is not occupied by a Keypad Entry variable or other screen object that has been assigned a Touch Property. The V290 also features a buzzer, linked to SB 310 Buzzer and SB 311 Buzzer - Screen Touch, this can buzz when the screen, or an on-screen object, has been touched. Vision controllers now offer 4096 MB (formerly 2048) & 2048 MIs (formerly 1600). Use Draw Axis to place x and y axes, including ticks, on the Vision screen in response to Ladder conditions. The axes may be used to provide a background for bar graphs, or in conjunction with the Trends function block. 6 Of: 1

2 BAS More Features Formula: build your own mathematical function Enter AlphaNumeric String via Keypad Interrupt High-Speed Counter Immediate: Write to Physical Analog Output Ethernet TCP/IP security Protected Subroutines Data Tables Find Row Extended Data Tables Read/Write Column Data Tables, Timer & Float New HMI Features Global HMI Variable Bank Shape graphs The BAS operations enable Vision controllers to exchange data with CSI building environment cards. BAS operations are located on the FBs toolbar. The Formula function, located on the Math menu, enables you to apply mathematical operators to operand values, and then output the result to a register. Via Keypad Entry variables, users can now enter upper and lower case characters as well as symbols, using either the Vision HMI function keypad, or in touch-screen models, a 'Virtual Keypad'. The new Interrupt High-Speed Counter routine is called according to the current value of a high-speed counter. The program stops immediately and executes the subroutine when the Counter Value reaches the Counter Target Value. The new Immediate Element, Write to Physical Analog Output, is located on the More> Immediate menu. Use it to immediately write a value into a physical, hardwired output-- without regard to the program scan. This function is generally included in an Interrupt routine, for example to turn an output ON in case of an alarm or emergency. By assigning unique names to a controller via Set PLC Name, you restrict Ethernet access to known PLCs. For this reason, note that Set PLC Name is now required for all applications using MODBUS TCP/IP. The PLC name must match the IP address and Port Number assigned to the PLC via the TCP/IP Card Init function. Note that if you do not know the PLC name, you cannot use a PC to access the PLC via Ethernet; however you may access the PLC via a serial communication connection. In Vision Communication PC Settings, note that serial is now the default communication mode. If you select Ethernet and close the project, the setting reverts to Serial. You can create a Ladder Password, then apply it to protect multiple subroutines. When a subroutine is protected, a user cannot open, copy, export, or print it without supplying the password. This function enables you to search for more than one value. The number of the row containing all of the values is stored in the output value. A column in a Data Table is the source for the Read/Write Column function. Floats and Timers can now be included in Data Table Data Types. To prevent variables from taking up excessive space in the controller's Flash memory, use Global Variables. The Global HMI Variable bank can contain any type of HMI variable. When you open a VisiLogic project, the bank is empty. You enter variables in the bank by first creating a variable, such as a List of Images variable, and then adding it to the bank. Once a variable is in the bank, you can refer to it from any HMI Display. Shape graphs show how values progress. You can use them together with other Display elements to help operators track system progress and status. 6 Of: 2

3 New Clock Variable- UTC Draw Static Axis Moving Images Border (Frame) HMI Element You can now display and enter UTC (Universal Time) values. This HMI utility enables you to place background axes for graphs. You can 'animate' images, moving them along a field according to an MI value. Place a border around an HMI element. New Ladder Functions UTC (Universal Time) functions Via VisiLogic's UTC functions, you can set the Real Time Clock (RTC) within an Ethernetenabled Vision controller. Via Ethernet, you can: Synchronise the RTCs of all Vision controllers in a network to a Vision controller acting as 'server' (RFC-868). Synchronise the RTC of a controller to a PC server. (RFC-1305) Strings: Time to ASCII Strings: ASCII to Num Linearize a Vector of Values BCD to NUM, Num to BDC HMI-Ladder: Clear Rectangle New Debug Tool You can display a value as an ASCII string by using the Time to ASCII function together with the Display ASCII String variable. You can display an ASCII string as a number value using the ASCII to Num function together with the Display ASCII String variable. Use Vector of Values: Linearization to linearize a vector of source values, then store the values in the target vector. You can convert a numeric value into a BCD or a BCD to a numeric value by using the appropriate function. This new Ladder Element allows Ladder events to 'erase' a rectangular area on the controller's LCD display in response to a Ladder event. Measure the time interval between 2 points in the Ladder application, by placing Start and End Interval elements, located on the More menu, anywhere in the application. The time interval, in micro-seconds, is stored in the DW linked to the End Interval element. New System Operands Details are provided in the topic System Operands. Info Mode SB 36 INFO mode: Enter Info Mode via OS, Remote Access, or Ladder program conditions. SB 54 <i> key: May now be used to enter Info Mode. SI 50 INFO delay time: May now be modified, default = 4 seconds 6 Of: 3

4 HMI Drawing Modes Touch Screen PLC SB 37 Exclude last Display from FIFO: Enables user to skip going back to certain Displays SB 27 Enter Display without active Keypad Entry Variables: When ON, the user cannot navigate through the variables using the Enter or Right-arrow keys, and Keypad Entry Variable are not marked by a blinking cursor. If V290 is selected in Hardware Configuration, SB27 is ON by default. SB 29 Sets SB 30: (HMI keypad entries complete) SB 38 Invert Touchscreen element pixels (Text, images): Reverses pixel color in touchscreen elements SB 26 Exiting OS Draw Mode: (ON for 1 cycle after OS draw) SB 310 Buzzer: Turn this ON to cause a touch on a screen element to sound a buzzer SB 311 Buzzer Screen Touch: Turn this ON to cause a screen touch in any location to sound a buzzer SI 40 Touchscreen is being touched - X coordinates SI 41 Touchscreen is being touched - Y coordinates SB 300 Reset PLC: Turning this ON from any working mode resets the PLC Enhanced serial communication features More new Ladder features More new HMI Features COM 2 and COM 3 now support Baud Rate Drag & Drop: Ladder elements and functions may now be dragged and dropped between nets. Redo: When using undo, the last undone action may be redone. Project Properties: Assign any color to show power flow during Test mode. Key Pad entry for Display variables List of Text and List of Images. Numeric Variables:Increment\Decrement keypad entry value. You can now enable users to increment or decrement numeric keypad entry variables by pressing the Up/Down keypad arrows. Recovering Images with Microsoft Paint: Clicking any HMI image in a Display will open the Image Library; to open the image for editing, click the Paint icon on the lower left side of the Library frame. Draw a border around an HMI element. Draw a static axis on a Display. Align to Left Gridline Aligning images and variable optimizes Displays. Rotate images by 90 by clicking an icon. 6 Of: 4

5 Reverse the colors of all pixels in an image. New VisiLogic Keyboard shortcuts Improving Remote Access run times New Help Topic You can now use the keyboard to toggle between the HMI and Ladder Editor: Ctrl + Alt + L displays the Ladder Editor Ctrl + Alt + H displays the HMI Editor In addition, you can now use Ctrl + W to toggle the Output operand window at the bottom of the VisiLogic screen in and out of view. Use Create HMI Display Cache from the Build menu. Modem Connection Diagrams DataXport 2.00 Now supports s Force Call In addition to exporting PLC data according to schedule, you can now can force the PC to call a PLC and export the data by sending an SMS message to the PC's GSM modem. Ethernet Listen Ethernet Listen sets a particular PC port, via which PLCs can 'call' and connect to the PC. Once the connection is established, the PC will export whatever data is set for that PLC. Remote Access 4.00 The Program Downloader now supports Vision controllers. Downloader enables you to install control applications in local or remote controllers. These applications are in compressed format. Improving Remote Access run times by creating a.ura file containing static displays. You can read all PLC RAM values into an Excel file, and to write these Excel values into the PLC's RAM. VisiLogic Application Examples When you install VisiLogic, an Examples folder is created on your hard disk, containing field-tested VisiLogic (.vlp) sample applications. You can copy these sample applications and adapt them for your own use--if, for example, an application is written for the V120, you can select the V230 via Hardware Configuration. VisiLogic's Help Menu now includes a Help file containing a list of applications as well as their location path. About Vision Series OPLCs and VisiLogic Software A Vision Series controller is a compact PLC with on-board I/Os and a Graphic Operator Interface. Vision s integral HMI panel contains a graphics-ready LCD and function keyboard. This enables you to use graphic images and bar graphs to represent real-time variable data, create and show text instructions, and to display actual run-time system data. The operator uses the 24- key customizable keyboard to enter or modify system data. 6 Of: 5

6 Vision s on-board I/Os offer 16/3 D/A inputs including HSC/shaft-encoders/frequency measurers, and 10/4 relay/transistor outputs including PWM. Hooked up to Unitronics I/O Expansion Modules, Vision supports an additional 128 I/Os. One-stop VisiLogic programming enables you to build both HMI and PLC applications. Click-and-drop contacts, coils, and functions into your Ladder; structure your control application using Modules and Subroutines. Design up to 60 HMI Displays on an LCD replica, assign key functions; then download and test your program. Vision OPLCs offer 2 serial ports, networking options including TCP/IP, and RTC. About Unitronics Unitronics has been producing PLCs, automation software and accessory devices since Unitronics OPLC controller series combine full-function PLCs and HMI operating panels into single, compact units. These HMI + PLC devices are programmed in a single, user-friendly environment. Our clients save I/O points, wiring, space, and programming time; elements that translate directly into cost-efficiency. For more information, contact Unitronics headquarters at Tel.: , Fax: , or export@unitronics.com. 6 Of: 6

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