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Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation, today announced its new Modicon M580 Ethernet programmable automation controller (ePAC). The newest addition to the Modicon family of controllers features hot standby functionality (HSBY) and native Ethernet and embedded cybersecurity in its core. The company's first PAC built for the Industrial Internet of Things, the M580 ePAC enables preferred integration to PlantStruxure, Schneider Electric's integrated automation architecture.
Schneider Electric's M580 family of ePACs provides the market with enhancements and greater capabilities, such as reinforced cybersecurity through the Achilles Level 2 and ISA Certifications; simpler and native time stamping solutions; extension of architecture changes during the run; and new topology capabilities.
With the new Modicon M580 ePAC, Schneider Electric provides its customers with a solution for mid-range to high-end process applications, providing hot standby CPUs and redundant power supplies. In addition to the redundancy features, the Modicon M580 ePAC helps to maximize uptime with the capability for online configuration changes without stopping the process. In addition, CANopen fieldbus is now natively integrated through a new embedded CANopen module.
Designed to help users who need traceability in their processes and programs, the new Modicon M580 ePAC controller has been equipped with larger memory and processing capabilities, which allow new integrated functions to help improve cybersecurity capabilities and time stamping of values for all variables in process applications, addressing complex and demanding processes.
Keywords: Industrial Internet of Things, Cybersecurity, Process Applications, Traceability, ARC Advisory Group.