2500 Series® Classic Programmable Automation Control System

OVERVIEW

The 2500 Series® Classic Programmable Automation Control System is designed for use in a broad range of applications, including those that require both discrete and analog control. 2500 Series® products can be found worldwide in numerous industries, including food and beverage, oil and gas, air separation, pulp and paper, mining and foundry, building products, printing equipment, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor, and wastewater/water treatment. CTI designed the 2500 Series® with a focus on operational simplicity, ease of use, and compatibility across successive product generations to deliver unsurpassed reliability and the performance you need at the lowest total cost.

Continuous Evolutionary Improvement

The 2500 Series® has its roots in the “ahead-of-its-time” Texas Instruments/Simatic 505® Series system known for its robust performance, intuitive design, and elegantly simple PID and special function programming. The 2500 Series® reinvigorates and modernizes this legendary product line with more memory, more speed and many new features while maintaining backwards compatibility.

The most important feature of every product CTI sells is compatibility — both backward and forward. We don’t obsolete our products and expect customers to buy our latest control system. Instead, our products are conceived to allow customers to improve systems incrementally — building on previous investments in equipment, programming and training. A brand new controller with modern features will work seamlessly with I/O modules from.

PAC Performance, PLC Usability

The 2500 Series® Classic Programmable Automation Control (PAC) system is a powerful, flexible, multi-application controls system with unmatched reliability and ease of use. Its modular design and robust process control capability including built-in communications ports and considerable I/O capacity deliver PAC performance, while its operational simplicity and ease of use provide PLC-like usability.

For machine control or for small- to large-scale process control, the CTI 2500 Series® Classic PAC System offers:

1. Full-featured performance supporting up to 8192 I/O points*, including both digital and analog I/O, and hundreds of PID loops and alarms.

2. Advanced functionality

3. Multiple remote I/O network options

4. Easy connection to other 2500 Series® products as well as to many other manufacturers’ products

Simply SeamlessTM

The 2500 Series® Classic PAC System includes a broad range of products for process control which are designed to work seamlessly across product generations and control

layers. From the Device Layer, including a full line of digital,analog, and specialized I/O modules for handling almost any input or output specification, to the Control Layer with its powerful CPUs and rugged HMI Touch-Panels, the 2500 Series® Classic PAC System provides a complete range of options for process control.Classic 2500 processors, power supplies and bases work seamlessly with Classic and Compact I/O and special function modules, and our Classic I/O, power supplies, bases,and remote Compact I/O work seamlessly with Simatic® 545 and 555 processors to manage everything from small discrete control applications to large process applications with PID loops, alarms, and special mathematical functions.Simplicity is Fundamental One of the design requirements we have for every product we make is that it is simple to use. We have laser-like focus on the needs of industrial process control, including batch,continuous, and low-to-medium-speed discrete manufacturing processes, and we harness the best of today’s technology to address core process control needs as simply and efficiently as possible. We design our controllers so that it is easy and straight-forward to perform all of the most widely used process control tasks.Our goal is to make our products easy to integrate, easy to operate, and easy to maintain. The simple memory layout of our controllers is clean and straightforward. The PLC scan cycle is flexible and deterministic — allowing custom configuration while providing control over absolute worst-case cycle time. All configuration items and operation of control functions such as PID loops and analog alarms can be set and/or modified directly from an HMI without dedicated

program logic. We want to get you — and keep you — up and running as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Cost-Effective Solutions Recent introductions of two Advanced Function Modules —an Ethernet Communications Coprocessor (the ECC1), and a general purpose Application Coprocessor (the ACP1) provide new options for cost-effective and minimally disruptive process control solutions.The ECC1 provides sub-second responses to even a large

number of HMI workstations. It has been used numerous times to improve HMI/SCADA response rates and in support of HMI/SCADA migrations.Because it communicates with its host processor over a high-speed Ethernet link instead of the special function I/O interface, items in the data cache can be kept current, even when the number

of cached items is large, and the user-friendly configuration interface makes implementation fast and simple. Other ECC1 features allow easy configuration of state-of-change peer-to-peer communications between 2500 Series Systems,requiring no programming in the PLC and minimizing the use of network bandwidth.The ACP1 is programmed with CTI’s new open standards IEC61131-compliant development system. It allows users to add languages, functions and memory organization features to existing CTI