Today Mitsubishi PLC‘s have made their mark in factory automation, because these systems are setting standards regarding reliability and availability.

The changes taking place in the process industry have – partly driven by international standards becoming more and more stringent – also lead to a relocation of the focus regarding the requirements for control systems. Especially system properties, where Mitsubishi controllers are particularly strong, like:

• high availability due to extreme reliability and the possibility for component exchange during running operation,
• high flexibility in scaling the systems to the application requirements,
• the wide application spectrum due to
• the multi-CPU concept and
• an open, transparent communication system

are in this context constantly moving to the front.

Based on this system platform Plant iT Mitsubishi and ProLeiT offer together a process control system with seamlessly integrated production data management, a system with the licence to grow, particularly designed for applications in the process industry. The production data management is able to work in conjunction with the process control system as well as independent from it and can thus be extended to areas, which are not directly controlled by the process control system (e.g. filling and packaging plants, internal logistics). Hence also hybride processes can be mapped with a continuous solution, i.e. exceeding the limit of pure process technology right into areas characterized by discrete manufacturing.