Unity Pro

What’s new in Unity Pro V13.1

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Unity Pro 13.1 : a major step for enhanced productivity 13.1

Customer Challenge
Our Value Proposition
•Always looking for ways to speed-up engineering
time
Increase productivity during
•Smart, easy to use, up-to-date editors engineering, reducing time to
market.

Our Solution
Program Units Enhanced LADDER DTM Import/Export
Technical highlights
• easy duplication & organization of
programs
1 • Simplified programming in Ladder
Editor
• Import / export DIO devices network
Devices Time stamping
• Easy configuration of Time
Stamping from devices
2
Unity Pro 13.1 : a major step for enhanced productivity

Customer Challenge
Our Value Proposition
maintain my installed base and extend to new
Leverage engineering skills and
configurations, new environments
programming habits with a unique
software platform for installed base and
new installations with Modicon controllers
Our Solution
Technical highlights
M340 M580 M580 Safety • CCOTF on S908
• New BME NOC03x1.4, for improved cybersecurity
• M580 Safety new 2040S CPU and Power Supplies
X80 I/O • BMX PRA module in M580 : increase number of drops
on M580
• New IO modules (DRC,DAI,DAO)
Ladder Editor improvements

Customer Challenge
I want to go faster when I develop my program (as System
Integrator) , or during maintenance (as Maintenance
technician)

Our Value Proposition

An easy to use and simpler Ladder Editor

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Simplified programming in Ladder Editor

Go fast to create or update a program

insert rows or rung…adapt columns….cell size….comments
copy / paste variables
menu can be customized
Short Cuts (keyboard) or TEXT editor
Zoom
Customization of colors off line or online

How To Video on :
https://www.schneider-
electric.com/en/faqs/index?p
age=content&id=FA346262
Program Units

Customer Challenge
I want to go faster to duplicate parts of my program, and
keep my project simple…I do not want to duplicate and
rename variables

1 2 3

Our Value Proposition

Faster Go To Market for System Integrators and
improved engineering efficiency thanks to easy
duplication of programs with private variables
(Program Units)

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Develop faster with new Program Units 1

Easy duplication, and clear organization of program Program

with private and shared variables

Configuration
Global variables
DFBs
Variables

Program Variables of
Program Unit:
• Private
Tasks
• Shared :Public,
Shared Mast Parameters
1 (inputs /
Private Pu1 outputs),external

Variables
Global
Sections Data Editor
+ Animation
Table
Shared Pu2
2
Variables
Note : Program Units are compliants with POU Private
(Program Organization Units) as defined in Sections
IEC61131-3 standard. Fast
Develop faster with new Program Units 2
Easy to use Variable editor, with flat or tree view.
Flexible design with parameters in/out (use global variable with local name), public (to share a variable) ,
external (use global variable)
Pu1 Variables TAB
Variables
Name Nature Type Effective Global
Xxxxxx private
Sections MyDFBInstance1 private
Yyyyyyy private
…. ….
INTERFACE TAB : a structured Tree view Zzzzz private
Nature Name Type Effective Global MyVarI1 input Global1
input MyVarI1 INT Global1 MyVarI2 input Global11
MyVarI2 ARRAY_OF Global11 MyVarI3 input Global 111
MyVarI3 … Global 111 MyVarO1 output Global2
output MyVarO1 Global 2 MyVarO2 output Global22
MyVarO2 Global22 MyVarIO1 in out Global3
in out MyVarIO1 Global3 MyVarPublic public
Global4 external
public MyVarPublic
MyDFBInstance2 public
MyDFBInstance2
MyDFBInstance3 external
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DTM improvements

Customer Challenge
•Always looking for ways to speed-up engineering time,

Our Value Proposition

Import Distributed IO (DTM) configuration between projects
& between NOCs

Import from external tools

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Import/Export M580 Configuration
configuration templates used in different Unity Pro projects

Import / export configuration for M580 CPU or BME NOC DTM in new zhw format ,

Full configuration : in Rack + EIO + DIO :

Or only BME NOC configuration :

Additional improvements

Customer Challenge
maintain my installed base and extend to new
configurations, new environments

Our Value Proposition

Leverage engineering skills and programming habits with a
unique software platform for installed base and new
installations with Modicon controllers.

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Device Time stamping
external device (Breaker, …), can be time stamped in a Modicon M580 application with a user time
stamping source, automatically transferred to SCADA

1
Use new data Structure (DDT)
USER__TSTAMP

2 And fill by program this data

Structure with data coming from
the device
2

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More X80 IOs on M580 with BMX PRA 0100
BMX PRA drops managed as DIO (Modbus TCP) to extend Modicon M580 X80 IO configuration

PRA project is saved in M580 Unity Pro project (sta, stu)

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New solutions for Ethernet, Digital Ios, Safety
New BME NOC version (BMENOC 0301.4 and
0311.4) with improved usability and
Cybersecurity features.

New Relay Output modules BMX DRA

0815, BMX DRC 0805 and isolated
AC modules BMX DAI 1615, BMX
DAI 1614, BMX DAO 1615

New Safety low end CPU 2040S and DC

Power supplies 4022S and 3522S

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Misc. improvements

• Improved Syslog login messages

• Save Restore data with forced bit is now possible
• Upload in monitoring mode :
• if project is password protected, it is not possible to upload it from controller

• if project is not password protected, it is now possible to upload it from controller

• Predictive Maintenance Library for redundant power supplies (BMXCPS40x2, BMXCPS3522) for
enhanced diagnostic and pro-active maintenance is now available in Unity Pro V13.1

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Companion tools & other softwares for improved productivity

Unity DIF V8,0 SP7

https://www.schneider-electric.com/en/download/document/Unity_Dif_V80_SP7/

Unity Loader V12.0 SP1

Unity EFB ToolKit V8.0 SP1

no change

OFS V3.62
OFS V3.62 support new Program Units

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