INTELLIGENT HARD DISK CONNECTION - A NEW DIMENSION IN PROGRAMMABLE CONTROL.

The increasing performance capability of SIMATIC S5 programmable controllers has produced a corresponding increase in the memory capacity required for both user programs and data. Extensive control programs involve large quantities of data, which in many cases are only used sporadically. In order to off-load the user memory, such data can be rolled out to external memory and transferred into main memory only when required. The CP 551 offers the users a suitable memory medium on which large quantities of data can be dumped. Another component of the factory of the future has arrived - is reported, namely, the CP 551 communications processor.