Maximum Integration for Unlimited Extension: The AH500 Series, Delta's New Midrange Modular PLC

Delta Electronics will satisfy your needs for high-end applications with its new highly efficient industrial automation product - the AH500 Series midrange programmable logic controller (PLC). Delta's Industrial Automation Business Unit welcomes established customers, new customers, experts, and academics from the advanced automation fields to join the AH500 Series launch events at Taoyuan, Taichung, and Tainan on August 2nd, 9th and 10th respectively. 

Due to economic fluctuations of the China market, the automation industries in Asia have endured an uncertain situation since 2011. However, PLC products continue on a stable annual growth path of 20%-30% due to current market requirements. As the market share for micro PLCs is mainly dominated by some of the most famous international manufacturers, the midrange PLC market remains open for competition. Almost all well-known international companies are focusing on enhancing their midrange PLC product quality and functions to meet the needs of the current market and applications. Delta Industrial Automation, of course, has the same ambition and plan in mind.

With Delta's thorough understanding of the automation industry and flexible, rapid after-sales service, our micro PLC products have achieved a remarkable growth last year. With this successful experience, Delta moved forward by developing the new midrange PLC products for even better solutions. With the AH500 Series, Delta Industrial Automation expects to see a noticeable market share expansion.

Delta PLC Product Sales Manager Mr. Johnny Hsu said: “The AH500 series is the first midrange PLC with both software and hardware designed and produced by a Taiwanese company. The AH500 Series has various features and is able to fulfill the demands of OEM facilities with high-speed Delta Motion Control Net (DMCNET). The AH500 can also perform rapid, precise motion control with Delta's ASDA-A2 Series servo motors when applied to various system integration and solutions. The CPU of the AH500 Series has built-in Ethernet communication port and full series of IO modules with hot-swapping function, and the supporting software ISPSoft is designed by Delta and matches the IEC61131-3 programming language standard. With strong hardware and software, the AH500 series is able to be applied to all of Delta's automation systems and deliver the most convenient and suitable solutions to users.”

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According Delta's PLC R&D team, customers from high-end application fields demand that the midrange PLC be stable, highly functional, standardized, offer real-time processing, and completely modularized. Most customers also prefer field tested and mature products. Delta hence initiated the design and development of the AH500 Series according to these demands.

In most applications, midrange PLC products usually communicate through a network, so the capability and convenience of internet communication has become a major feature trend. Midrange PLC products are usually applied to high-end fields in which the machines and solutions are more complex and require a high-speed CPU processor, bigger processing capacity and precise motion control.

As a result, Delta's AH500 Series adopts a dual-core multi-tasking processor with program capacity up to 256k steps and data register of 64k words. The excellent program execution speed of the AH500 series can reach 0.3ms/1k steps, and it has abundant module options selections including digital I/O, analog I/O, temperature, network, pulse and DMCNET modules.

The AH500 series greatly enhances execution speed and memory capacity, and provides a more flexible system expansion structure and module selection. Users can extend the system freely with great wiring flexibility. The AH500 Series also supports hot-swapping that allows users to replace modules without intervening in system operation while avoiding possible damage and loss. This greatly improves maintainability during module breakdown.

In addition to strong hardware, the AH500 Series also offers great software support. The AH500 Series adopts the ISPSoft program developing platform, integrating program editing, hardware configuration and network configuration features to offer a complete structure for system integration. With the support of ISPSoft, the AH500 Series effectively enhances the efficiency for programming and fits perfectly for applications in the industries of packaging, textile, food, machine tools and HVAC.
To high-end customers, Delta's AH500 Series will satisfy their needs for midrange PLC products with its complete integration functions. It is perfectly suited for applications in industries such as packaging, textiles, food, machine tools and HVAC.

The AH500 series provides complete software, hardware and functions of a PLC product while allowing users to easily and rapidly combine it with Delta's AC motor drives, servo motors, HMIs, machine vision products, temperature controllers…etc. to fulfill the requirements of high-level machines and smart automation system integration and solutions.
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