Mitsubishi Electric has teamed up with market leading software producer COPA-DATA to provide the seamless integration between its automation hardware and COPA-DATA’s control and visualisation products, including different telemetry protocols.

The outcome is a high reliability system with easy data collection and status reporting from field devices with remote terminal protocols.  It offers improved independent communication with access to over three hundred native drivers and communication protocols.  In addition it is certified for Windows 7and encrypted network technology ready for FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance

COPA-DATA is an innovation leader in industrial automation software. With knowledge and experience gained from over 80,000 installed systems across the globe. COPA-DATA is always setting standards and developing new solutions for improving automation and efficiency.

COPA-DATA’s straton software is a soft PLC that runs on the Mitsubishi Electric C Controller, whilst zenon is an open-design, object orientated industrial HMI and SCADA software package that is able to communicate directly with the Mitsubishi iQ Platform.  The C controllers will also operate as a stand alone system in a field application

The straton IEC 61131-3 kernel runs on the Mitsubishi C Controller. Inside the kernel, the variables from the different connected field devices, with their specific connection protocol are defined. That enables users to define a variable and configure it – for example an IEC-61850 variable or data from a field device and copy it to the Mitsubishi PLC. The reading and writing from the iQ platform to this device is easily achieved via the protocol.

The benefit to the customer is the combination of COPA-DATA’s experience, comprehensive protocol capabilities and the integrated hard and software solution from Mitsubishi’s iQ Platform.  This enables customers across a wide range of applications to achieve seamless control of their remote telemetry applications.

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