MR Control has developed a reputation for leading edge software design & programming.

We take advantage of the very latest Rockwell Automation hardware & software technology and make it work to the benefit of our customers. We have many years of experience in working with Rockwell PLCs in a wide variety of machine & process control applications. We support all Allen Bradley PLCs from the PLC2, PLC3, PLC5 and SLC500 ranges right through to today's powerful ControLogix PLC solutions.

We offer a complimentary range of FactoryTalk View SCADA solutions and machine based PanelView Plus HMIs. We take advantage of all that Rockwell has to offer particularly with the FactoryTalk Metrics suite of applications. We get hold of your plant floor production data and make it visible with automatic collection & reporting of data. FactoryTalk Metrics (similar to RSBizWare PlantMetrics) produces clearly defined reports allowing you to identify problem machines or equipment. Using FactoryTalk Transaction Manager (previously RSSQL) we can manage and store all your shop floor data and link to higher level manufacturing systems. We also integrate FactoryTalk Batch and FactoryTalk Historian to provide a complete range of manufacturing solutions. MR Control-installed FactoryTalk systems are saving our customers costly downtime and boosting their profits.

SLC 5/04 PLC controlling a Laminating Machine using remote DeviceNet I/O

Which Rockwell Allen Bradley PLCs can you program?	All of them (see below)
MicroLogix	Small I/O shoebox systems - cheap and simple to use (requires the Rockwell RSLogix 500 software)
ControlLogix series	Current range of large PLCs - very useful for certain machine motion systems (which are very simple to configure), possibly expensive otherwise compared to the SLC range. The Logix 5550 and now the Logix 5555 have large amounts of memory (at last!) and use a TAG based logix, which will certainly prove popular with professional programmers, but may not find favour with occasional users. The programming software has some clearly unfinished areas such as cross referencing and print previews. The ladder is very reliable, but unfortunately the structured flowchart is not quite as robust. Click here for more information
FlexLogix series	Latest model for mid-range control applications
CompactLogix series	Low-end control systems - this is our recommendation for replacement of SLC and MicroLogix series systems, now some models available with Ethernet ports built in (at last, a PLC manufacturer who realises the future of PLC programming interfaces!)
PLC 5 series	Top End, very powerful PLCs, this range was the flagship of the Allen Bradley/Rockwell range before ControlLogix appeared.
SLC 500 series	Middle range PLCs typically with RS232 or DH1/DH485 ports
SLC 5/03	Middle range PLC with DH485 communication port, but oddly no DH+ port
SLC 5/04	Shoebox type PLC with Data Highway+ communication port, but oddly no DH485 port
SLC 5/05	Shoebox type PLC with Ethernet port but oddly, no Data Highway+ communication port. One day all PLCs will have an ethernet port (being the best programming port there is by a long way), but in the meantime, they're VERY expensive
PLC 2 series	Very old PLC, requires old or new programming software: TA, T3, T50 or PCMK card with PLC2 lead
PLC 3/10 Series and PLC 3 series	Old PLCs, we do specialise in replacing these with PLC5s (you can just replace the CPU with a PLC 5 CPU then rewrite the software of course...)

Rockwell Allen Bradley Graphics Systems

Panelview Configuration Softwareonfiguration

Which Allen Bradley Graphics Systems can you program?	All of them
PanelViews	Reliable, functional units with reasonable programming software. The range is now superseded
PanelView Plus	Reliable and easy to use (the latest configuration software is a big improvement), functional units with fair programming software. The range has now superseded the Panelview systems. it is much more flexible and powerful.
RS ViewStudio ME	Latest HMI System - very pretty but comms are nasty to set up
RS ViewStudio SE	Latest SCADA System - has many new features over RSView32 but some important ones are still lacking
RS View32	Powerful top end SCADA system - still features in many of our projects

Rockwell Allen Bradley Programming Software

T The old "AB 6200" Ladder

Allen Bradley Programming Hardware

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