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Overview
Ease of Use
RSLogix™ is a family of products including RSLogix 5™,
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The RSLogix family runs in the intuitive 32-bit Microsoft
RSLogix 500 , and RSLogix 5000 that incorporates the latest
Windows environment. This makes RSLogix easy to learn and
software technologies, providing you with a powerful
easy to use. The drag-and-drop functionality and multiple
development environment that will increase your productivity
window views speed you through your programming
and profitability. Operating in the familiar and powerful point-
projects, maximizing as well as saving development time.
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and-click Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows
NT®, or Windows 2000 environments, each of the RSLogix
RSLogix 5000 has an added feature called the I/O
programs combines powerful functionality and superior
Configuration Wizard, which assists you with the normally
diagnostics yielding an unbeatable productivity tool.
arduous task of configuring and setting up the I/O modules
Reliable communications combined with an industry-leading
in your system. The wizard walks you through all of the
user interface make it the programming solution for both first-
parameters associated with a module via a friendly question
time users and seasoned professionals alike.
and answer-driven interface. This streamlines the
development task, saving you valuable time. The screens
The RSLogix family provides everything you’ve come to
built into these wizards are later provided as module property
expect in a quality programming software package and more:
dialogs to allow you to view the module’s status or change
• Online/offline programming
the operational settings.
• I/O module layout and configuration
• Symbolic addressing and programming
• Cross-reference information
• Advanced troubleshooting features
• Reporting
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Benefits
• Database editing
• Simplified, user-friendly Windows interface resulting
in increased productivity
• Faster and easier diagnostics, troubleshooting,
and debugging resulting in reduced downtime
• Easier program maintenance across platforms resulting in
reduced programming time and cost
• Easier communications configuration resulting in
reduced setup time
Superior Development Tools
Taking full advantage of the power of Microsoft’s operating
The Project Verifier allows you to quickly correct program
systems, the RSLogix family’s flexible and powerful editor
errors at your convenience by providing you with a list of
features allow you to create application programs quickly
application errors. This powerful feature enables RSLogix to
and easily. As with all Windows applications, when using
provide you with flexible editors that allow you to
RSLogix you can open several views at the same time
concentrate on creating the application logic you need and
allowing you to edit several ladder logic, structured text,
not on the instruction syntax as you create your application
or sequential function chart files simultaneously. The editor
program.
allows you to create several rungs at the same time, and a
powerful ASCII editor gives you the ability to enter rungs
RSLogix 5000 provides support for the Logix5000’s Highly
quickly by using the keyboard to enter the instruction
Integrated Motion functionality. The integrated motion
mnemonics and parameters. Online editing allows you to
configuration wizard and ladder logic instructions set include
modify your application program while the process is still
the same drag-and-drop and navigation features found
operating.
throughout the RSLogix environment. Providing an integrated
hardware and software platform to meet your combined
If you are concerned with IEC 1131-compliant solutions,
motion and programmable controller needs allows you to
RSLogix meets your needs too. RSLogix 5000 provides IEC
reduce the number of software packages you need to learn
1131-compliant Ladder Diagram (LD) and Function Block
and maintain.
Diagram (FBD) language editors and an IEC 1131-compliant
data model using symbolic data tag names. To augment
these control languages, RSLogix 5000 provides industryspecific instructions that simplify Motion, Process, Drives,
and Sequential control applications.
Additionally, RSLogix 5 includes IEC 1131-3-based structured
text (STX) and sequential function chart (SFC) editors. Dragand-drop editing is one of the most powerful productivity
enhancing features found in the RSLogix family. Drag-anddrop editing lets you quickly build rungs, or SFC and FBD
diagrams. You can also move instructions from rung to rung
within a project, SFC or FBD elements from diagram to
diagram, SFC or FBD diagrams or ladder logic rungs from one
subroutine or project to another, or data table elements from
RSLogix 5000 also makes your program easier to interpret
one data file to another. You can even add addresses to
and maintain because it permits you to create customized
instructions using the Data Table monitor, Database file, or
data types by combining multiple data elements into a
the Address/Symbol Picker.
compound structure. The data type structure editor permits
you to name each element or field of a structure for its use
in your application.
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Troubleshooting
Made Easy
When troubleshooting an application, quick and accurate
information is critical. The RSLogix family is designed to make
troubleshooting complex problems easier than ever before.
Advanced Diagnostics, RSLogix’s powerful searching tool,
allows you to quickly locate the specific area in the
application that is causing a problem. Using page titles in
your ladder logic, Advanced Diagnostics promptly locates the
outputs in a particular section of your ladder logic, then
jumps to the rung associated with each output. You can
diagnose the interaction of output instructions within a
section of your program by viewing them at the same time.
Compatibility
The RSLogix family provides complete compatibility with
Rockwell Software’s popular DOS-based programming
products, A.I. Series™ Ladder Logistics™ and 6200 Series
software. Projects developed with these products can be
imported to RSLogix by simply opening your existing projects.
Likewise, projects developed using RSLogix 5 for the PLC-5®
family of processors or RSLogix 500 for the SLC 500™ and
MicroLogix 1000 processors can be exported back to the
appropriate DOS programming package just as easily. As an
added feature, RSLogix 5000 incorporates a powerful project
translator that can assist you with the conversion of your
existing PLC-5 and SLC 500 project, programmed with any of
Rockwell Software’s DOS-based or Windows-based
Using the online cross-reference, you can move to the rung
or instruction you desire by clicking on the referenced item in
the cross-reference view. Custom Display Monitors in
RSLogix 5 and 500 allow you to examine the status of
individual data table elements such as bits, timer, counter,
inputs, and outputs simultaneously in one view. Program files
can be viewed as multiple ladder logic, SFC, FBD, or STX files
in a tabbed window, or in individual windows for each
program file, or in a combination of the two. You can view
multiple projects simultaneously for cutting and pasting
functions.
RSLogix 5 and 500 feature a compare utility that enables you
to find differences between two application programs.
These application programs can be any combination of online
and offline file.
With RSLogix 5000 you can easily take advantage of the
online storage of the troubleshooting Logix5000™ application
from any terminal. This Logix5000 feature will provide you
with a self-documenting project and ensures that you always
have access to the latest project documentation data.
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products, to the new Logix5000 controller. The translation
process converts your application logic, data, and
documentation quickly and efficiently. With the RSLogix
family you can develop your project using all the time-saving
features of RSLogix and still support it using any of your
DOS-based or Windows-based RSLogix 5000 programming
packages.
Interoperability
Rockwell Software provides you with the most powerful
and complete programming products available today in the
RSLogix family. The interoperability between RSLogix
and the Rockwell Software HMI package, RSView32™,
and communication package, RSLinx™, positions RSLogix
as the ultimate programming solution. With the Rockwell
Software family of products, you have the ability to share
your database with RSView32. You can create schematic
drawings of your system directly from your RSLogix project
using RSWire™, automatically tune PID loops with RSTune™,
Help at Your Fingertips
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trend critical application parameters with RSTrend , or test
and debug your ladder logic programs in your office using
If you should run into trouble understanding a function
RSLogix Emulate 5™ or RSLogix Emulate 500™.
of RSLogix, help is just a mouse-click away. RSLogix’s
comprehensive Help system even leads you step-by-step
through many common activities and application scenarios.
Context menus for common software features are quickly
accessible by clicking the right mouse button on an address,
symbol, instruction, rung, or other application object. These
tools save you time with complex tasks, because you don’t
have to remember the placement of functionality options in
the menu bar.
Built for Performance
Using the 32-bit Windows environments, Rockwell Software
RSLogix goes beyond easy-to-use. It’s intuitive.
Advanced Diagnostics
Custom Display
Monitors
complete compatibility
family of products
The comprehensive development tools of RSLogix allow
you to streamline your application development process.
Equipped with RSLogix’s Advanced Diagnostics and
comprehensive Help system, you are able to save time and
money. The compatibility and interoperability with other
Rockwell Software packages contribute to providing you with
a world-class programming tool; just one facet of the total
Help system
software solution available through Rockwell Software.
intuitive
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get connected...
The RSLogix Forum provides a place for the RSLogix user
community to exchange application ideas and information;
where users can get connected.
Through the forum, you can:
• Participate in discussions about features and their possible uses.
• Learn about other users’ tips and tricks they’ve discovered through their
own experience.
• Give us your suggestions for new features and functionality.
Get connected with the RSLogix Forum.
www.rslogixforum.com
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Additional Software
Ask your local distributor or sales representative about
these other products from Rockwell Software:
RSView32 ™
is an integrated, component-based HMI software product
for monitoring and controlling your automation machines
and processes.
RSNetWorx™
is a graphical network management and configuration tool
that provides an instant, selectable view of any ControlNet™
or DeviceNet™ network.
RSLinx™
is a complete communications driver suite to view all your
active networks in a single window and run any combination
of supported applications simultaneously.
RSSql™
is an event-driven database transaction processor that
provides bi-directional links between your process control
systems and your enterprise-wide database systems.
RSWire™
is a comprehensive, computer-aided engineering tool for
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producing accurate, error-free, and intelligent control
schematics and the reports that go with them.
If you’d like more information about Rockwell Software
RSBatch™
RSLogix products, check out the RSLogix Technical Data
is a complete batch process management tool based
sheets, which are available through your local Rockwell
on S88.01 models for efficient, predictable operations of
Automation sales office or authorized Allen-Bradley
batch processing.
distributor. Or, for more information on the latest pricing
and product development or a demonstration of any
Rockwell Software package, please contact your local
Rockwell Automation sales office or Allen-Bradley
distributor. For the very latest on Rockwell Software
product development, visit our Web site at:
www.software.rockwell.com
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Rockwell Software
For more information on the latest pricing or a demonstration of any
Rockwell Software package, please contact your local Rockwell Automation
sales office or Allen-Bradley distributor. For the very latest on Rockwell
Software products, visit us at:
www.software.rockwell.com
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