Unitronics Vision130 integrated PLC and HMI

The Unitronics Vision130 PLC+HMI family are flat fascia PLCs with onboard HMIs. The flat fascia makes these models suitable for the food and pharmaceutical industries.

With their IP66/IP65/NEMA4X rating, these units can be used wherever spray/wipe-down applications apply. Models include: V130-J-B1, V130-J-TR20, V130-J-R34, V130-J-TR34, V130-J-TR6, V130-J-RA22, V130-J-TRA22, V130-J-T2, V130-J-T38, V130-J-TA24. The company says their PLC+HMI advantage gives users the opportunity to minimise budget, programming time and wiring.

With a wide variety of onboard and expandable I/O options, the units are capable of supporting up to 256 I/O. These configurations include digital and analog inputs and outputs, high-speed I/O, PT100/thermocouple capabilities, and load cells for weight measurement. The I/O can be mounted locally or remotely, up to 1000 m from the controller. They are also equipped with recipe capabilities, micro SD card memory storage for data logging and backup and complete PLC cloning.

Vision130 units can support 24 auto-tuned PID loops to control temperature, level and pressure. The graphic LCD, 2.4″ 128 x 64 pixel operator interface supports over 1024 user-designed screens with 400 images per application, a 20-key keypad, and is able to display trend graphs and a text string library. Internal memory holds 512K of application logic, plus 128K for fonts and 256K for images.

Communication options include ethernet, mobile and industrial protocols such as Modbus, DF1 slave, J1939 and CANopen. In addition, the units can be ‘taught’ to communicate via almost any ASCII protocol.