to the ISA-88 standard are helping drive innovation and expand the concept of
modular programming beyond where ISA standards are well-known today.
Optimizing Exceptional Machines
Standards Matter Information for Machine Builders from Rockwell Automation®
In This Issue of Standards Matter As businesses strive for greater efficiency, consistency and interoperability, machine builders, suppliers and end users look to standards to help them reduce costs, boost productivity and accomplish their goals. Thanks to new developments in modular programming standards, OEMs now have greater opportunity to reduce machine design and integration costs, and accelerate delivery of machines that are faster to install, easier to operate and maintain, and more compatible with other equipment and systems.
Structured, reusable models help substantially reduce system integration time and costs for dedicated process and packaging equipment.
Leveraging the Benefits of Modular Programming Standards In recent years, machine builders have begun to fully recognize the value of modular programming in helping to improve design consistency, reduce engineering costs, and speed machine installation and startup. Modular programming concepts, such as code structuring, tag naming conventions and state model implementation, provide machine builders with a common framework so programmers can spend more time adding value and functionality rather than deciphering terminology. The power behind modular programming lies within the principles laid out in industry standards, including one of the most widely recognized and broadly adopted standards – ISA-88. New ideas and contributions to the ISA-88 standard are helping drive innovation and expand the concept of modular programming beyond where ISA standards are well-known today. Case in point: The ISA-88 standard committee (SP88) approved and incorporated the OMAC (Organization for Machine Automation and Control) PackML, which is now published in ISA-TR88.00.02. PackML provides a broadly recognized machine state model and standardized data model (PackTags) to help ensure that programmers are speaking the same language and using terminology consistently. This creates a predictable, reusable model when multiple programmers are involved during machine design.
Optimizing Exceptional Machines Information for Machine Builders from Rockwell Automation® Structured, reusable models help substantially reduce system integration time and costs for dedicated process and packaging equipment. Moreover, with a standardized look and feel of the programming and HMI graphic objects, it’s easier for operators and software personnel to recognize application functionality across applications and suppliers. Several major consumer packaged goods manufacturers are already including PackML requirements in their
machine design specifications. Likewise, a number of other end users, OEMs and system integrators have begun to implement packaging systems using PackML and PackTags. As packaging guidelines, such as PackML, are transformed into ISA standards, they will reach further into the plant, giving manufacturers important benefits by helping them achieve better integration between discrete and process applications.
Product and Service Highlights
RSLogix 5000 Programming Software
RSLogix™ 5000 Programming Software
Power Programming Version 4
Power Programming Version 4
The latest enhancements to Rockwell Software® RSLogix 5000 design and configuration software include more than 30 new capabilities designed to provide users with complete functionality across the range of control disciplines. Among the new features is Integrated Motion on EtherNet/IP™, which uses Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) Motion and CIP Sync technology from the Open Device Vendors Association (ODVA).
Rockwell Automation has incorporated the latest changes in the ISA-88 standard – the inclusion of OMAC (Organization for Machine Automation and Control) PackML guidelines – to its Power Programming version 4 development tool. By leveraging the latest programming standards, Rockwell Automation will help machine builders improve programming consistency, reduce engineering costs, and speed machine installation and startup time.
This enhancement allows machine builders to access all the benefits of Integrated Motion for configuring, programming, commissioning and maintaining high-performance drives, I/O, smart actuators and other devices on a single EtherNet/IP network. This includes the new Allen-Bradley® Kinetix® 6500 servo drives and enhanced Allen-Bradley PowerFlex® 755 AC drives.
The tool offers more than a dozen different templates for the most common functions in machine development. These pre-tested modules of code are based on current, open standards and best practices acquired through years of experience.
The ability to add world-class motion control solutions to Rockwell Automation safety, process and discrete control applications via a common network improves system flexibility, allowing users to deploy a variety of tools and devices while opening the door for application innovation.
For more information, go to:
For more information, go to:
http://www.rockwellautomation.com/solutions/oem/ powerprogramming.html
http://www.rockwellautomation.com/rockwellsoftware/ design/rslogix5000
Optimizing Exceptional Machines Information for Machine Builders from Rockwell Automation®
Foundations of Modular Programming
FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Software
FactoryTalk® View Machine Edition Software The latest version of FactoryTalk View Machine Edition (ME) version 5.1 software allows efficient remote monitoring of manufacturing processes from an Internet browser. It includes several enhancements that help engineers reduce visualization system implementation time. The updated software includes faceplates for the new Advanced Process Control (APC) instructions that are now included in RSLogix 5000 software. These new APC function blocks provide a solution for long dead-time processes and provide simple multivariable control with built-in automatic tuning.
Recent updates to the Rockwell Automation Foundations of Modular Programming (FOMP) Foundations of Modular Programming document provide an overview of the advantages and impact of the incorporated OMAC PackML guidelines into the industry standard ISA-88 documentation. The FOMP document is designed for customers who want to leverage industry standards alongside the Rockwell Automation implementation of these standards in their own industrial automation applications. This document explains the basic concepts derived from ISA-88.01 and ISA-TR88.00.02 (OMAC PackML V3) and provides examples of how Rockwell Automation engineers are currently applying these standards on the Integrated Architecture platform For more information, go to: http://www.rockwellautomation.com/solutions/oem/ modular.html
The faceplates also provide pre-built visualization and operator interaction, saving development time and making it easier to implement APC with the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture™ system For more information, go to: http://www.rockwellautomation.com/rockwellsoftware/ performance/view/viewme.html
Modular Programming for Machine Applications Training Kit For more information on Machine Builder Solutions from Rockwell Automation, visit www.rockwellautomation.com/solutions/oem
Follow a technical expert through video and audio Modular Programming for Machine instruction and learn how to Applications Training Kit produce a software design specification for a machine or line of machines For more information, go to: http://www.rockwellautomation.com/services/training/
Allen-Bradley, FactoryTalk, Integrated Architecture, Kinetix, PowerFlex, Rockwell Software, RSLogix are trademarks of Rockwell Automation, Inc. EtherNet/IP is a trademark of the Open DeviceNet Vendor Association. Trademarks not belonging to Rockwell Automation are property of their respective companies.
Publication OEM-BR008A-EN-P — June 2010
Copyright © 2010 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA.
