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Process Controllers: PAC, PLC, Loop control
News Release from: Jumo Instrument Company | Subject: Jumo Imago 500
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 May 2004
Jumo Imago 500 process and programme
controller
Eighteen months application has seen the Imago 500 expand to eight controller channels: it is now increasingly used not just as a process controller, but also for more general operational functions
The Imago 500 from Jumo Instruments has become firmly established as a universal instrument in a wide range of sectors and applications After a year and a half in the field, in which the instrument has proved itself to the market, additional customer requirements have been added, which have now been implemented in the production model
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 20 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Especially in areas such as industrial furnace construction (for instance, in tunnel ovens or rack ovens), or in the plastics sector (for extruder controls or injection moulding tooling), five to eight controller channels are often required per installation - a requirement that can now be met with the new version.
The expansion to eight controller channels means that it is now possible to connect eight freely-programmable electrically isolated analogue input signals.
The instrument is now increasingly being used not just as a process controller, but also for more general operational functions.
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For this reason, we have also expanded the available options for math and logic combinations to 16 and have integrated user-friendly timer functions.
All the analogue and logic signals can, of course, be freely assigned to outputs, binary/logic functions or mathematical calculations.
In order to ensure that enough outputs are available for such control and operational tasks, two external output modules (each with 8 outputs) can be connected to one of the two interfaces.
And because of the complexity and variety of the combinations of connections that are possible, a function has been created for the display and printout of the individual connection diagram for the application that has been set up.
The Imago 500 is also frequently used for process visualization.
So the user now has two freely-configurable pictures available in the colour display, into which a user-selected background picture can be inserted.
These background pictures can be activated through icons, texts and specific process values.
Freely defined bar graph displays have also been added to the facilities.
The size, colour and required signals can all be freely selected.
This function is particularly interesting for an at-a-glance comparison of process variables, to indicate the progress of the programme, as a filling level display, and so on.
Of course, the monitoring of important processes demands an alarm device.
The latest fully expanded configuration of the Imago 500 provides more than 300 analogue and logic signals that can be monitored and initiate an e-mail message via an attached modem.
Further key features include a data logger, recorder and further paperless recorder functions.
The process values, alarms and status messages that are stored in the instrument can be read into an evaluation software package on a PC, managed, and archived in a tamper-proof form.
All these additions make this successful series of controllers into talented multifunction and communications devices that can be operated in ten different languages.
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