Design & Configuration

Design & Configuration

RSLogix Architect

Overview

RSLogix Architect software gives you a single place to manage all RSLogix5000™ based controller configurations. Simple to use, it helps you efficiently manage controller configuration files, network configurations, and produced and consumed tag relationships.

It offers tools for:

• Controller configuration management
• Viewing the system as a whole versus a collection of configuration files
• Communications and network management
• Produced and consumed tag management

In RSLogix Architect, you create pages which are a living view of your network and controller. These pages are where you "draw" your control hardware layout — the chassis, controllers, and communication modules that you will use in your automation system. You can also draw networks that allow you to connect the controllers together. Once controllers are connected together through networks, you can easily configure produced and consumed tag relationships from one location.

And RSLogix Architect software is the perfect complement to Integrated Architecture, an industrial automation framework providing scalable solutions for the full range of automation disciplines — including drive, sequential, motion, and process control, plus safety and information. Integrated Architecture reduces your total cost of ownership by providing a single control infrastructure for the entire range of factory automation applications, large or small. With Integrated Architecture, you can re-use designs and engineering practices to reduce development time. You can respond faster to customer demands, and you can lower maintenance costs, roll-back downtime and gain easy access to plant and production data from business systems. All of which can lead to better management decisions.

If you're using Rockwell Automation's Integrated Architecture now, or plan to use it in the future, RSLogix Architecture software is for you.