PAC Project Software Suite from Opto 22 is a new automation software suite designed for use with Opto 22’s Snap PAC programmable automation controllers, brains, and I/O (the Snap PAC System). It also meant re-emphasizing other attributes, like free training, customer support, and expanded online tutoring. They love a good challenge, a tough problem, and finding the solution for it,’ he says.Įven for a company known for innovation, simplification required significant self-examination and redesign, such as moving to just four racks for Opto 22’s Snap PAC line, down from 15. Why? ‘Technicians, and maintenance and operations personnel are becoming fewer in number,’ says Hougland, ‘and their jobs now encompass more than just learning, specifying, and implementing automation hardware and software.” Simplifying these tasks, he says, lowers the barrier to entry for more people who want to innovate and improve business using automation, data acquisition, and monitoring products and services. PAC Project basic version is free.īut the crux of the product launch is simplification.
Opto 22 PAC Display software for creating Microsoft Windows-based HMI and SCADA projects, part of the PAC Project Software Suite, is said to be comprehensive and easy to use. Hardware is tested twice, customer service is free, and they’re now expanding their training offerings with things like video training via the Web. Its first products (in 1974) were solid-state relays, and now most SSRs and I/O modules are guaranteed for life. It was well known for its industrial PCs or programmable automation controllers (PACs) before the industry knew what to call them. ’the process for people who want to act on their ideas.’Įven before the black armbands that employees wore to proclaim the demise of PLCs more than 18 years ago, Opto 22 had positioned itself as different. The more than 20 revamped products include project, simulation and connectivity software I/O processors, modules and racks and the Snap Motion Control Subsystem.
Temecula, CA - ‘Products that serve the automation industry are confusing to understand, complex to use and expensive to buy,” says Benson Hougland, vice president of Opto 22, ‘but they don’t have to be.’ The occasion was the launch of a redesigned and simplified suite of Opto 22 hardware and software that is easier to understand, simpler to select and configure, and less expensive to install.
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