Deploy and maintain continuous applications while minimizing the risk of downtime. While the system is running, you can add new programs, routines and add-on instructions as well as replace existing programs and routines. You can implement even sweeping control strategy changes without affecting production.

In addition, you can download routines without affecting online data. New tags and User-Defined Tags are created automatically, as needed, with values initiated from the import file, while data values of existing tags are maintained. You can deploy changes or additions to a running system that were developed and tested off line.

Reduce engineering time by globally deploying a single RSLogix 5000 project file that enables you to set rung comments, text boxes and tag descriptions to be viewable in the user's local language. A new pull down menu lets various users specify their local language(s) easily.

Create and manage multiple sets of localized user documentation within a single project. Perform translations manually within RSLogix 5000 or externally via a documentation tab-separated value (TXT import/export file.

RSLogix 5000 supports both single (European) and double byte (Unicode/Asian) character sets.

Ideal for machine builders and end users with the same applications running at international locations, you can improve project revision management and system maintainability because local maintenance personnel can view the information they need to troubleshoot code in the local language.

RSLogix 5000 now offers three optional advanced process control (APC) instructions that are useful for applications with multiple interacting input/outputs, lengthy dead times and other applications that are difficult to control with traditional PID instructions. The new APC blocks include:

• internal model control (IMC) — controls a single process variable by manipulating a single controller output
• coordinated control (CC) — manages a single process variable by manipulating as many as three different outputs
• modular multivariable control (MMC) — runs two interacting process variables using as many as three outputs.

All three instructions offer built-in auto tuners for convenient configuration.