Automation Builder 2.7

Features and target hardware

Automation Builder 2.7 (32-bit) Automation Builder 2.7 (64-bit) Release notes

	Basic system engineering (free)	Standard integrated system engineering	Premium productivity and collaboration
Productive engineering
Integrated engineering for PLCs, safety, motion, drives and control panels	◊	●	●
Integrated tool suite installation and maintenance (online and offline)	●	●
Project handling including project archive and backup features	●	●	●
Project lifecycle support (version profiles and project migration)	●	●	●
Native language support in EN, DE, ES, FR, CN	●	●	●
Support of standardization and re-use by flexible configurations of machine variants and advanced I/O device handling	●	●	●
Support of re-use by cross project and cross Automation Builder instance copy&paste	●	●	●
ECAD roundtrip engineering - AC500 and EPLAN / Zuken E3			●
ECAD roundtrip engineering for 3rd party devices - PLC and EPLAN / Zuken E3			●
Bulk data import/export with change control to any tool via CSV (also via copy&paste)			●
Bulk data import/export of device and I/O lists and IEC 60870-5-104			●
Change management support by project compare			●
Automation of engineering (execution of Python scripts)			●
Virtual system testing based on Virtual Commissioning Technology		○	○
Collaborative engineering support by Professional Version Control with Subversion		○	○
PLC engineering AC500 V2 (for AC500-eCo V2, AC500 V2, supported AC500 local I/O modules, supported AC500 extension modules)
PLC application programming (IL, LD, FBD, SFC, ST) plus CFC	●	●	●
PLC firmware update, download and online change to single or several PLCs	●	●	●
PLC simulation, diagnosis and debugging	●	●	●
Integrated firmware identification and update (PM and CM devices)	●	●	●
Configuration of communication protocols for TCP/IP, Modbus, CS31, IEC60870-5-104	●	●	●
Configuration of communication protocols for PROFINET, PROFIBUS DP, EtherCAT, CAN (all via communication module)		●	●
Condition Monitoring CMS: configuration, libraries for CMS control and wave file handling		●	●
C/ C++ application programming (GNU compiler)			●
Advanced simulation support including virtual PLCs		○	○
PLC engineering AC500 V3 (for AC500-eCo V3, AC500 V3, supported AC500 local I/O modules, supported AC500 extension modules)
PLC application programming (LD, FBD, SFC, ST) plus CFC	●	●	●
PLC firmware update, download and online change to single PLCs	●	●	●
PLC simulation, diagnosis and debugging	●	●	●
Integrated firmware identification and update (PM and CM devices)	●	●	●
Configuration of communication protocols for TCP/IP, Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU	●	●	●
Configuration of onboard communication protocols for CAN, IEC 60870-5-104, DNP3 (1) (2), IEC 61850 (1), BACnet (1), KNX (1), Ethernet/IP (1)		●	●
Configuration of communication protocols for PROFINET, PROFIBUS DP, EtherCAT, CAN (all via communication module)		●	●
Configuration of motion axes and graphical CAM tables		●	●
Static code analysis		○	○
Safety PLC engineering integrated solutions (for AC500-S safety CPU, safety I/Os and PROFIsafe devices)
Safety PLC application programming (LD, FBD, ST)		○	○
Fieldbus protocol engineering for PROFIsafe		○	○
Safety Code Analysis Tool		○	○
Safety Verification Tool		○	○
SCADA engineering (for ABB zenon)
Integrated SCADA and PLC engineering with ABB zenon editor		○	○
Control Panel engineering (for CP600-eCo, CP600, CP600-Pro)
CP600 and CP600-Pro panel configuration with PB610 Panel Builder 600	◊	●	●
CP600-eCo panel configuration with PB610 Panel Builder 600	●	●	●
Integrated PLC tag data import		●	●
Control panel simulation	●	●	●
Drive engineering (for ACS180, ACS355, ACS380, ACS480, ACS530, ACS550, ACS560, ACS580, ACS850, ACQ810, ACS880, DCS880, ACSM1)
Drive management, configuration and diagnosis with common process data editor (Drive - PLC)		●	●
Drive engineering in Drive composer pro	◊	●	●
Motion engineering (for Motiflex e180, Motiflex e190, E530)
Motion application engineering with Mint WorkBench	●	●	●
Modbus TCP engineering (for CI521-MODTCP, CI522-MODTCP)
Configuration and diagnosis of unbundled Modbus TCP CI (communication interface) devices	●	●	●
Solution engineering
Drive library (PS553-DRIVES, PS5605-Drives)	●	●	●
MQTT and JSON libraries	●	●	●
SNMP and SMTP libraries	●	●	●
Motion control wizard, CAM editor and library for AC500 V3 (PS5611-MC) (1)	○	○	○
Motion control library for AC500 V2 (PS552-MC-E)	○		○
Solar library for AC500 V2 (PS562-SOLAR)	○	○	○
Water library for AC500 V2 (PS563-WATER)	○	○	○
Temperature control library for AC500 V2 (PS564-TEMPCTRL)	○	○	○
BACnet - ASC library for AC500 V2 (PS565-BACnet-ASC)	○	○	○
BACnet - BC protocol for AC500 V3 (PS5607-BACnet-BC incl. ASC) (1)		○	○
AC500 High Availability for AC500 V2 (HA-CS31 library)	●	●	●
AC500 High Availability HA-Modbus TCP library for AC500 V2/V3 (PS5601-HA-MTCP) (1)	○	○	○
KNX protocol for AC500 V3 (PS5604-KNX) (1)		○	○
IEC 61850 for AC500 V3 (PS5602-61850) (1)		○	○
Data logger library for AC500 V3 (PS5609-LOG) (1)	○	○	○
Pumping library for AC500 V3 (PS5608-Pump) (*)	○	○
FTP client library for AC500 V2 (PS554) (*)		●	●
Signal processing package for AC500 V2 (*)		●	●
Pumping library for AC500 V2 (PS571) (*)		●	●
HVAC library for AC500 V2 (*)		●	●
Process control objects (PCO) library (*)	●	●	●
Ethernet/IP (PS5613-ETHIP) (1)		●	●
EtherCAT onboard (PS5615-ECAT) (1)		●	●
OPC UA client (PS5616-UACli) (1)		●	●
DNP3 outstation onboard (PS5614-DNP3-O) (1) (2)		●	●
Further features
PLC multi download tool for large installations	●	●	●
OPC server tool, license manager, installation manager, PLC gateway, IP configuration tool	●	●	●
Operating systems
Windows 11 (32/64 Bit) Professional/Enterprise, Windows 10 (32/64 Bit) Professional/Enterprise, Windows Server 2012 R2 64 Bit, Windows Server 2019	●	●	●
PC requirements
Minimum: 1 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 5-18 GB free disk space	●	●	●
● included ○ optional (additional license required) as integrated tool / feature / library ◊ optional (additional license required) as standalone tool / feature - not integrated in Automation Builder (1) Additional runtime license per PLC required. (2) In preparation (*) Technology Preview: Technology Previews are non-final versions of our product and should not be taken as a measure of the fit, finish, capability, and overall quality of the product.