The free version (Micro Starter Lite) will also program the Micrologix1100. AB has suspended manufacture of the Micrologix1000 platform since June 2017, but there are millions of them installed in factories and elsewhere and they are still relevant as a learning platform.

We include it with the manual written for a Micrologix1000 and with any training stations that have a Micrologix1000/1100 controller from our inventory. If you contact Rockwell online, they can send a link from which to download it I just did that today.March 12, 2018. The software was free from Rockwell Software but no longer appears on their website. Micro Starter Lite supports just two controllers the Micrologix 1000 and the MicroLogix 1100.The standard license of RSLogix500 will support all SLC500 and Micrologix controllers, and it is expensive.Within this platform, there are three categories of hardware/software: Of these three categories, the RSLogix500 is the least expensive to use as a learning platform.

However, someone else could post articles of a similar nature on the other major vendors of controllers. If you are standardized on a different vendor for controllers, this section of the article is probably of no value to your enterprise. There are three primary families of hardware/software (in order of historical occurrence) with Allen Bradley: PLC5 with RSLogix 5, SLC500 and Micrologix 1000/1100/1200/1400/1500 with RSLogix 500, and ControlLogix/CompactLogix with RSLogix 5000. Learning PLCs to support an installed base.

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