It's a competitive world. You're looking to get your machines to market as quickly as possible and at the most competitive price. At the same time, you don't want to compromise your products' quality and performance. It's a hard equation to balance.
But it can be done. The Connected Components solution is specifically designed to help you meet today's requirements through a range of application-based control solutions. The Connected Components solution provides a design toolkit, programming software and the products to help create a safety and standard control solution including:
This bundled approach helps you more quickly design and develop machines.
The Guardmaster 440C-CR30 Configurable Safety Relay provides safety control and features direct diagnostic communications with the Allen-Bradley Micro830 to seamlessly blend standard and safety control.
The Micro830 controller is designed with flexibility to address a wide range of standalone machine control applications.
Two expansion ports support up to 16 additional standard I/O via plug-ins
Embedded Modbus interface provides seamless communication with Micro800 controllers, PanelView component graphic terminals CompactLogix controllers
Ten safety outputs can be configured as safety outputs to control various safety actuators such as safety contactors or the safe off option for PowerFlex® drives
Connected Components Workbench™ software is the single programming environment used by the Micro800 family of controllers, the Guardmaster 440C-CR30 Configurable Safety Relay, PanelView™ component HMIs and PowerFlex® drives for simple and seamless programming of standard and safety logic in separate devices.