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NEV PLATFORM

A modular, PC-based automation platform.

It turns an industrial PC into a real-time controller. Motion, the PLC, I/⁠O and the CNC channel are separate modules, and a system is built from the ones it needs. The logic, the motion and the screens are built in one project, deployed in one step and watched from one place.

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// THE TWO PARTS

You develop in the engineering environment; the runtime applies it.

DEVELOPMENT PC

The Development System

Axes, kinematics, PLC logic, the fieldbus and the operator screens are built in one project. The whole project runs in simulation before any hardware exists.

TARGET PC

The runtime

Runs motion, the PLC and the I/⁠O cycle on the target. The operator's screens run here too, deployed from the same project and bound to the same variables.

// THE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT

Configuration, programming and simulation, in one environment

The project is built, compiled and deployed from here. The same environment connects to the running system to read its values and load changes.

Project tree
I/⁠O, Motion/NC and the PLC configured in one tree.
IEC 61131-3 Structured Text
Compiler with object-oriented extensions: interfaces, inheritance, methods.
Native compilation
ST is compiled to machine code, not interpreted.
Online Change
Changes are loaded into the running system, each one classified first: what preserves the data goes through, what would destroy it is refused.
Online Monitoring
Live values inline in the code and in a watch table, with Write and Force on the running system.
Simulation
Motion, PLC and HMI run together with no target hardware.
HMI designer
Operator screens are drawn in the same project and bound to project variables.
EtherCAT configuration
The network is described from the vendor's ESI file, and the ENI is generated from it.

// ARCHITECTURE

Modular and extensible

The modular structure makes the system easier to develop and to tailor to your own needs.

Run your own project before you buy any hardware.

The Development System installs on a laptop. You build the project, run it in simulation and see the result.

Download the Development System Installation