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Libraries

Shipped Library Families

Which One To Open

  • Use OSCAT when you need general-purpose reusable IEC utility blocks and functions.
  • Use OSCAT OOP when OSCAT-backed application code should be organized as objects with narrow interfaces.
  • Use PLCopen Motion when the workload is axis control, sequencing, or motion-profile examples.
  • Use PLCopen Motion OOP when an application should model axes and commands through itfAxis and returned command objects.
  • Use Control for feedback loops: Control.PID for P, PI, PD and PID control, Control.LowPass for filtering, and the Smith predictor, gain scheduler and decoupler for harder plants.
  • Use Alarm when the program raises alarms that operators acknowledge, shelve and reset in the runtime display, with the history in OpenOT.
  • Use HMI in every project with screens: its Hmi.Display block, called in a task, serves them.
  • Use Comm when the program and the operator must know whether each communication link works, since when and why it failed.
  • Use Plant when a program commands a plant's motors, pumps, valves, instruments and loops and an operator works them from the HMI's panels.
  • If the question is about third-party vendor libraries rather than shipped libraries, go to Vendor Libraries.