A maximum of options for all-round benefits

Optimized processes, minimized costs, higher profitability – the AC500 offers you a maximum of options for ensuring that crucial bit of extra added value. The wide choice of communication couplers enables you to customize the automation system to suit your own individual requirements. Thanks to the AC500’s scalability and its modularized platform concept, you can configure precisely the automation system you need. It’s these unique advantages that render the AC500 so enormously cost-efficient, safe and user-friendly.

The AC500 – persuasive advantages

• Scalable control
• Wide choice of communication and field bus couplers
• User-selectable coupler types for simultaneous operation
• Fast replacement thanks to plug-in modules
• A single software package for the entire range
• Seamless integration of control system and field devices
• Attractive price-performance ratio

The AC500 completely redefines the term “flexibility”. By virtue of its up-to-the-future field bus plug technology, the field-bus-neutral system can be easily connected up to almost any desired field bus. Its scalability offers a maximized multiplicity of solutions for accurate handling of every automation job – all that’s needed is a quick replacement of the CPU or simply 5 expansion using I/O modules. ABB has thus met its customers’ forceful requests for individually tailored automation systems, with concomitant enhancement of market opportunities and growth potentials. The small number of modules means fewer spare parts and correspondingly low storage costs. Since only one standardized software package and consistently harmonized hardware are used for the entire AC500 range, the outlay for software, training and support is reduced to a minimum – intelligence that pays off for you!