Automation Builder 2.8
Features and target hardware
| Basic system engineering (free) |
Standard integrated system engineering | Premium productivity and collaboration | |
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| Productive engineering | |||
| Integrated engineering for PLCs, 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 | - | - | ● |
| 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 (GIT or 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 |
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| 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, CS31 | ● | ● | ● |
| Configuration of onboard communication protocols for CAN, IEC 60870-5-104, DNP3 (1), IEC 61850 (1), BACnet (1), KNX (1), Ethernet/IP (1), EtherCAT (1), PROFINET (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 |
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| 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 all ABB low voltage AC drives) | |||
| IEC 61131 programming of ACS880 and DCS880 |
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| Drive management with common process data editor (Drive - PLC) | - | ● |
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| Drive commissioning with 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 |
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| 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) | ○ |
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| Motion control library for AC500 V2 (PS552-MC-E) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Solar library for AC500 V2 (PS562-SOLAR) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Water library for AC500 V2 (PS563-WATER) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Adaptive temperature control library for AC500 V3 (PS5621-TempCtrl) (*) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Temperature control library for AC500 V2 (PS564-TEMPCTRL) | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| BACnet - ASC library for AC500 V2 (PS565-BACnet-ASC) | ○ |
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| 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) |
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| Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) for CM5640-2ETH (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) (*) |
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| FTP client library for AC500 V2 (PS554) (*) | - | ● | ● |
| Signal processing package for AC500 V2 (*) | - | ● | ● |
| Pumping library for AC500 V2 (PS571) (*) | - | ● | ● |
| HVAC library for AC500 V3 (*) | ○ |
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| HVAC library for AC500 V2 (*) | - | ● | ● |
| Process control objects (PCO) library (*) |
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| Ethernet/IP (PS5613-ETHIP) (1) | - | ○ | ○ |
| EtherCAT onboard (PS5615-ECAT) (1) | - | ○ | ○ |
| PROFINET I/O Controller onboard (PS5623-PN-C-e) (1) | - | ○ | ○ |
| PROFINET I/O Device onboard (PS5623-PN-D-e) (1) | - | ○ | ○ |
| OPC UA client (PS5616-UACli) (1) | - | ○ | ○ |
| DNP3 outstation onboard (PS5614-DNP3-O) (1) | - | ○ |
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| Further features | |||
| PLC multi download tool for large installations | ● | ● | ● |
| OPC server tool, license manager, installation manager, PLC gateway, IP configuration tool |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |