FYI Modicon 984 and 800 series I/O hardware officially obsolete

From our distributor yesterday....

As you may already know, Schneider Electric / Modicon has officially deemed the 800 line of I/O components and 984 processors to have reached the "End of Commercialization" I have attached the official announcement from Schneider Electric. 800 Series I/O and 984 processors will continue to be supported and hardware offered through the exchange program using refurbished hardware. There will be no new manufacturing of parts.

A migration program has been developed for users of the discontinued hardware to upgrade to Quantum processors and I/O at minimal effort. I have attached a brochure on the Modicon Advance Program which will allow you to change your I/O and Processors either independently or together to the latest Quantum Hardware without having to redo your field wiring. Schneider Electric is also capable of converting programs written in ModSoft, Proworx NXT and Proworx 32 to the latest Unity Software Package. A similar program is also now available for 200 and 500 series of I/O as well as most of the X84 series of processors.

Brian.

Have you done much with the new 'Unity' software? I did some work with the first version that came out and I thought it was horrible. I've worked with a couple Function Block and Sequential Function Chart type programs before and thought this was a poor imitation. Our local distributor came out to play with the new software and he was unable to simply set up scale an analog input. Hopefully it's improved.

We also sent off a 'non-critical' PLC program for conversion from Proworx NxT to Unity and it came back with many 'un-convertable' items that had to be corrected. With 10 processors and about 30,000 I/O we foresaw the eventual evolution to Unity to be a nightmare.

Unity? The IT department have had a look at it but down here in the trenches I only recently was able to get my hands on Proworx32 and my 'lead hand' wants us to stay with MODSOFT. We have 80% 984 processors and even the machines we have converted to Quantum have the old 800 series I/O. The only constant in life is change.

Brian.

i only used proworx32 for one application (Nightmare..it was version 1)..and myself and concept are having issues..so for the most part of my work its MODSOFT..gotta love it.and you gotta hate it at times..

BTW let me know if you are stuck for 800 series parts..i got rid of most but still have some processors and analog cards kicking around..i am pretty sure i have some brand new racks to.

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Thought it was time renew this post as both Proworx32 and Concept are now going End of Commercialisation in May 2015 along with Quantum LL984 PLC and Momentum LL984 PLC.