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ABB adds high-performance version of AC500

ABB is extending the capability of its AC500 PLC control system with a very high performance version. The new AC500 PM595 features a multi-processor system which ABB said can handle the most demanding machinery and motion automation control and communication tasks.

Carly Leonida
The new AC500 PM595 features a multi-processor system

The new AC500 PM595 features a multi-processor system

The AC500 PM595 is built around a 1.3GHz processor with four 32-bit RISC processors, plus an embedded double-precision floating point processor, 16 MB of user program memory and a large array of communications...

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