Micro850 and Enhanced Micro830 PLCS Expand Machine Building Flexibility from Rockwell Automation

The Micro850 and enhanced Micro830 PLCs have been launched, in order to meet machine builders' needs for flexible micro programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that help optimise standalone machine performance and cost.

The Micro850 micro PLC is equipped with the same form factor, plug-in support, instruction/data size and motion capabilities as the 24pt and 48pt Micro830 controllers, but with added capabilities of Ethernet and expansion I/O.

The Micro850 controller specifically targets the needs of OEMs and excels at stand-alone machine applications. The Micro850 controller has an embedded Ethernet port for higher performance connectivity to human-machine interfaces (HMIs). The EtherNet/IP protocol with CIP Symbolic support is used for simplified Allen-Bradley PanelView Component HMI connectivity.

I/O flexibility in the Micro850 PLC is one of the keys to successfully minimising the cost of a machine. With support for up to five plug-ins, OEMs can customise the functionality of the controller with additional I/O, special functions, and serial ports without increasing the size of the controller. If more I/O or higher-performance analogue I/O is required, the Micro850 controller supports up to four 2085 expansion I/O modules, including high-density digital I/O and high-accuracy analogue I/O, for a total of 132 digital I/O points.The enhanced Micro830 (via a firmware and software upgrade) and Micro850 controllers support up to three motion axes using pulse output to stepper or servo drives. OEMs can use intuitive motion function blocks, including Home, Move Velocity, Move Absolute, and Move Relative to make single-axis moves easy. For applications where precise positioning is required at high speeds, the Touch Probe function block has special hardware to achieve exact-position registration.

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