New products - July/August 2001

DeviceLogix brings low cost control at the device level

Devicelogix from Rockwell is a smart component technology that can be integrated into plant floor devices to provide low-cost control at the device level. This new technology improves overall control system responsiveness and fault tolerance, and helps optimise the performance of central controllers.

DeviceLogix provides a simple method of embedding control into a wide variety of industrial devices such as I/O blocks, motor starters, overload relays and sensors. Designed with a very small memory footprint, it offers simple, standalone features such as signal conditioning, event detection, alarming and Boolean logic execution.

With DeviceLogix, processing can now be performed at a push-button station or on a distributed I/O system at component level. The time to sense and then act is significantly reduced due to local processing, which results in higher network performance. Configuring the control behaviour of a specific device is as simple as configuring the device's other parameters.

• Rockwell Automation
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