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Unitronics Color Touchscreen HMI

Colour LCD

Colour displays are becoming common in today's automation. They enable machine builders to show more details on the operator panels, to display vivid, attention-grabbing alarms, and, in general, to brighten up their systems. A colour touchscreen, full PLC functionality, on-board I/O options, and built-in recipe capability are just a few of the benefits of our colour LCD HMIs. The convenience is clear. Machine manufacturers and system integrators can add, with a single product, both a brilliant colour touchscreen and a PLC to their systems—with no extra labor, wiring or cost. The Vision570™ offers a rugged 5.7" QVGA, 256-colour TFT touchscreen. Over one thousand displays and hundreds of highly detailed colour images can be used in a single application. The memory holds 2MB of application memory, plus 1MB for fonts and 6MB for images; future releases will include SD card memory storage support. The controller is fast, scanning 1K of a typical application in 0.9µsec, making it a natural for ‘rapid response’ applications such as packaging machines. The Vision570™ can use 20 auto-tuned PID loops to control temperature, level, and pressure, while the colour touchscreen displays data, colour trend graphs, and red, attention-grabbing alarm screens.