Communications

2. 5 Built-in communication ports

Imagine the agony of shelling out $4,000.00 or more for an Allen Bradley CompactLogix CPU and having to pay extra to communicate with your existing serial devices. With Productivity2000 you get 5 communications ports with several different protocols standard on the P2-622 CPU.

• RS-232, RS-485, Ethernet, Remote I/O or 2nd Ethernet, and USB (programming) ports- built in!
• Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP/IP, EtherNet/IP, MQTTS - included!
• Need more serial connections? No problem, an optional 4-port serial communications module is available if the need arises.

We make cloud communication easy

Industrial machines/systems are more connected than ever before, whether internally with upstream IT management systems or externally with remote support personnel, modern-day plant-floor machines/systems need to communicate to a variety of networks. Cloud networking, with its computing and data storage platforms, has also become a viable solution for analyzing and accessing production data from anywhere at anytime. Using powerful cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure® or IBM Watson® to analyze production-floor data can provide better process efficiency, improved plant-wide resource management and less operational downtime.

But how does data from a simple level switch on a tank get to the cloud? With Productivity PLCs, it easy! Productivity PLCs have the communication capabilities and processing power needed to not only control plant-floor machines but gather valuable data from them, package it, and send it on to higher level analysis systems.

Mulitple data gathering options

Productivity PLCs offer many I/O options to choose from for your system data collection. I/O modules, available in analog, discrete, high-speed, relay, and temperature versions, allow you to create the custom I/O configurations your application needs. And with Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocol support, Productivity2000 PLCs can easily gather raw data from a variety of VFDs, sensors, switches, encoders, pilot devices, or almost any other control component your system may have.

MQTT

The MQTT protocol has become the frontrunner for many machine-to-machine (M2M) and IIoT/cloud networking applications, due to its lightweight overhead and reduced bandwidth consumption. Productivity PLCs support MQTT communication and with fill-in-the-blank MQTT messaging configurations, delivering vital data to advanced cloud computing platforms is easy.

Compatible with MQTT brokers and cloud platforms/services including:

• IBM Watson®
• Mosquitto®
• HiveMQ®
• Thingsboard®

Perfect match for C-More HMIs!

Export your tagname database from the Productivity CPU and import it into your C-more HMI Panel to jumpstart your HMI development. No more digging through your notes, or hunting through your ladder logic to find the right tagname.

Connect up to 16 C-more HMIs to the Productivity CPU via Ethernet for control and visibility of your process/machine from anywhere in your factory. Use the remote access feature of C-more to view (and possibly control) your system from anywhere via the Internet. C-more offers a wealth of productive features that make it a perfect match for the Productivity2000. More about C-more here.