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Chapter

Controllers and I/O Modules

Introduction

The objective of this chapter is to provide a user with information for

replacing Siemens S5 PLC hardware with Rockwell Automation’s family of

Logix Controllers and hardware.

In 2002, Siemens announced the gradual phasing out of the S5 PLC starting

on October 1, 2003. Apart from the decline in the demand for the 20- year old

technology, Siemens stated that it was becoming increasingly difficult to find

suitably priced and technically matching components for an aging system.

This meant that new S5 hardware was available for approximately one year

until October 2004. After that, the products will remain available on a spare

parts basis for nine years until October 1, 2013. The dates for the Simatic

S5-115, the medium performance range systems, are October 1, 2004,

September 30, 2005 and September 30, 2014. The dates for the large-scale

Simatic S5-135/155 systems are October 1, 2005, September 30, 2006 and

September 30, 2015.

The chapter describes how to select controllers, local I/O, remote I/O,

networks, and HMI. It also includes a section on distributed controller

architecture, and provides hardware conversion examples for the most popular

S5 modules.

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