Supporting the entire process
Control systems overview
In this overview you will find the different control systems, their related products, which segments they fit well in to, the associated programming tool and the available communication protocols.
| Control system & IO capacity |
Related products | Segments | Comments |
Programming tool |
Protocols |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nexto Xpress Applications up to 64 IO |
Distributed IO (G-series) Inverters BFI X2 base panels |
Building automation Infrastructure Water & wastewater Food industry Textiles Factory automation Smaller machines Material handling |
High-speed in/out Built-in analog / RTD WebVisu (Express 340) |
BCS Tools |
CANopen (32s) Ethernet/IP (max 32s) IEC60870-5-104 (5120 variables) OPC UA server (5000 variables) Modbus RTU/TCP (32s/64s) MQTT SQL server integration |
| G series distributed controller Applications up to 128 IO |
Distributed IO (G-series) Inverters BFI X2 base HMIs |
Building automation Infrastructure Water & wastewater Food industry Textiles Factory automation Smaller machines Material handling |
WebVisu (GN-9373) Mix and match to fit application |
BCS Tools (CODESYS) |
OPC UA server Modbus RTU/TCP (5s/20s) MQTT (FB in CODESYS) |
| X2 control Applications up to 512 I/O |
Distributed IO Inverters BFI Servo drives acirro+ |
Building automation Infrastructure Water & wastewater Food industry Textiles Factory automation Smaller machines Material handling |
Combine the best of two worlds Wide operating temperature 2 Ethernet ports as standard Marine certifications |
BCS Tools (CODESYS) |
CANopen (32 s) Modbus RTU/TCP (32s/64s) EtherCAT (50s) MQTT (FB in CODESYS) |
| Nexto modular Applications up to 2048 I/O |
Distributed IO (G) Inverters BFI X2 pro SCADA systems |
Building automation Infrastructure Water & wastewater Food industry Textiles Factory automation Smaller machines Material handling |
WebVisu (NX3005) Marine certifications One-touch diagnostics Redundant CPUs and hot swap of modules |
BCS Tools |
Modbus RTU/TCP (32s/64s) EtherCAT (max 128s) Ethernet/IP (max 32s) IEC 61850-104 (max 3 clients) OPC UA server MQTT SQL server integration |
| BoX2 pro motion Applications up to 512 I/O |
Distributed IO (G) Servo drives (BSD) Inverters BFI X2 base/X2 pro HMIs |
Small to big machine builders |
Up to 4 axis synchronized (1 ms) Speed control Position control Synchronization and interpolation Torque control |
CODESYS (BCS Tools) |
EtherCAT (max 50s) MQTT (FB in CODESYS) |
| Hadron X-torm Applications up to 4096 I/O |
Distributed IO (G) Nexto rack IO SCADA system |
Power distribution Power generation Power transmission and distribution |
IRIG-B (GPS time sync) NIC teaming with active ip In rack redundancy 2 power supplies (24 VDC/110 VDC) |
Master Tool Xtorm |
IEC 61850 (max 5 clients/256 LN:s) DNP3 ( max 32 clients) Modbus RTU/TCP (64s/64s) IEC 61850-104 |
