CTI 2500 Series® Classic Programmable Automation Control System

2500 Series® Classic

Programmable Automation Control System

OVERVIEW

The 2500 Series® Classic Programmable Automation

Control System is designed for use in a broad range of

applications, including those that require both discrete and

analog control.  2500 Series® products can be found

worldwide in numerous industries, including food and

beverage, oil and gas, air separation, pulp and paper, mining

and foundry, building products, printing equipment,

chemicals, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor, and

wastewater/water treatment. CTI designed the 2500 Series®

with a focus on operational simplicity, ease of use, and

compatibility across successive product generations to

deliver unsurpassed reliability and the performance you

need at the lowest total cost.

Continuous Evolutionary Improvement

The 2500 Series® has its roots in the “ahead-of-its-time”

Texas Instruments/Simatic 505® Series system known for its

robust performance, intuitive design, and elegantly simple

PID and special function programming.  The 2500 Series®

reinvigorates and modernizes this legendary product line

with more memory, more speed and many new features

while maintaining backwards compatibility.

The most important feature of every product CTI sells is

compatibility — both backward and forward.  We don’t

obsolete our products and expect customers to buy our

latest control system.  Instead, our products are conceived

to allow customers to improve systems incrementally —

building on previous investments in equipment,

programming and training.  A brand new controller with

modern features will work seamlessly with I/O modules from

PAC Performance, PLC Usability

The 2500 Series® Classic Programmable Automation

Control (PAC) system is a powerful, flexible, multi

application controls system with unmatched reliability

and ease of use.  Its modular design and robust process

control capability including built-in communications ports

and considerable I/O capacity deliver PAC performance,

while its operational simplicity and ease of use provide

PLC-like usability.

For machine control or for small- to large-scale process

control, the CTI 2500 Series®  Classic PAC System

offers:

 Full-featured performance supporting up to 8192

I/O points*, including both digital and analog I/O,

and hundreds of PID loops and alarms.

 Advanced functionality

 Multiple remote I/O network options

 Easy connection to other 2500 Series® products

as well as to many other manufacturers’

products

*Additional I/O expansion possible using ECC1 and ACP1

coprocessors

ten years ago or from ten years hence.  This allows you to

upgrade your control system at your own pace and with

minimal disruption.

Simply SeamlessTM

The 2500 Series®  Classic PAC System includes a broad

range of products for process control which are designed to

work seamlessly across product generations and control

layers.  From the Device Layer, including a full line of digital,

analog, and specialized I/O modules for handling almost any

input or output specification, to the Control Layer with its

powerful CPUs and rugged HMI Touch-Panels,  the 2500

Series®  Classic PAC System provides a complete range of

options for process control.

Classic 2500 processors, power supplies and bases work

seamlessly with Classic and Compact I/O and special

function modules, and our Classic I/O, power supplies, bases,

and remote Compact I/O work seamlessly with Simatic® 545

and 555 processors to manage everything from small discrete

control applications to large process applications with PID

loops, alarms, and special mathematical functions.

Simplicity is Fundamental

One of the design requirements we have for every product we

make is that it is simple to use.  We have laser-like focus on

the needs of industrial process control, including batch,

continuous, and low-to-medium-speed discrete manufacturing

processes, and we harness the best of today’s technology to

address core process control needs as simply and efficiently

as possible.  We design our controllers so that it is easy and

straight-forward to perform all of the most widely used

process control tasks.

Our goal is to make our products easy to integrate, easy to

operate, and easy to maintain.  The simple memory layout of

our controllers is clean and straightforward.  The PLC scan

cycle is flexible and deterministic — allowing custom

configuration while providing control over absolute worst-case

cycle time.  All configuration items and operation of control

functions such as PID loops and analog alarms can be set

and/or modified directly from an HMI without dedicated

program logic.  We want to get you — and keep you — up

and running as quickly and efficiently as possible.