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RSTest Stand

RSTestStand is a software tool designed for developing and testing automation solutions, allowing users to simulate control programs and interact with PLCs without physical hardware. It features a user-friendly interface, supports 3D animations, and includes a variety of operator console devices for realistic interaction. The software is compatible with industry standards and offers extensive libraries for both discrete and continuous processes, enhancing productivity and facilitating training without the need for physical equipment.

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RSTest Stand

RSTestStand is a software tool designed for developing and testing automation solutions, allowing users to simulate control programs and interact with PLCs without physical hardware. It features a user-friendly interface, supports 3D animations, and includes a variety of operator console devices for realistic interaction. The software is compatible with industry standards and offers extensive libraries for both discrete and continuous processes, enhancing productivity and facilitating training without the need for physical equipment.

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RSTestStand

Technical Data

RS TestStand™ is part of a suite of Design Automation products


that enhance your productivity for developing and deploying
automation solutions.
• Lets you build complex applications from simple library elements through
the use of a hierarchical project organization. Segments of the project can
also be saved into your libraries, which gives you a high level of reuse and
standardization.
RSTestStand allows you to interactively develop and test your control program
on your desktop – by replacing the field inputs and outputs to your PLC with a • Provides a collection of realistic Operator Console devices that allow you
simulation of your process. Similar to a hardware test stand, it provides you with to interact with the PLC as if you had wired a hardware panel. Operator
a range of devices like push buttons and pilot lights to interact with your logic. Consoles can also import bit maps, so you can build interactive plan views
of your process models.
Unlike a test stand, RSTestStand can be easily and quickly configured through
software to represent a wide variety of processes – discrete through continuous • Allows you to force states of your process so that you can test for device
process – and, once configured, to automatically respond to different control sig- failures and system responses in a controlled way.
nals. In addition, the product provides you an extensive user interface that lets
• Supports creating snapshots of your running process. You can then save and
you dynamically interact with your control program through the process – check-
reload your application to check out various scenarios.
ing for errors and determining system response to out-of-range conditions.
• Incorporates a Fault Interlock Table that automatically monitors your
application for illegal conditions – and alerts you to their presence and can
optionally halt the simulation.

• Lets you export and import the project model to a Comma Separated Variable
(CSV) file for more rapid development using applications like Excel.

RSTestStand has implemented a simple but powerful interface to let you easily
incorporate 3D animation elements into your application. Visualization is
frequently useful for understanding the relationship of many control elements
interacting in a non-predictable way. The same application can then be used for
training of operators and maintenance technicians without tying up expensive
equipment on the plant floor.
More than the traditional hardware test stand, RSTestStand:
Animation is accomplished by binding control points to one or more of the
• Simplifies the task of connecting your software to the test stand since you
animation primitives associated with an animation object. This quick and easy
are not actually wiring physical devices. Plus, there’s no need for extra
method allows you to develop sophisticated visualizations in a matter of minutes
storage space for the test stand.
– giving you a tremendous return on the time you’ve invested.
• Uses industry standard OPC (OLE for Process Control) protocol to talk to
RSTestStand’s 3D animations utilize industry standard OpenGL.
Allen-Bradley PLCs using RSLinx or controllers supported by other OPC 2.0
compliant servers. Simulation provides you and your customers the ability to see the collective

• Ships with application libraries that include support for discrete and continu-
ous process loops. You can modify our libraries or you can develop your own
containing reusable elements from previous applications.
behavior of system elements as they interact. Check out is faster and 3D Animation primitives
buyoff simpler. • Linear motion (displacement)
• Rotational motion
RSTestStand supports a unit development and testing philosophy. For full system
• Size along an axis
testing and checkout, see Rockwell Software’s Control Planner/ Simulator
• Visibility
(9310-CPSENE).
• Color

Library elements
System Requirements:
Continuous process: Discrete:
• IBM-compatible Pentium® III or better running at 400MHz
• Second order lag • Action-reaction-reset
• First order lag • Shift register • CD-ROM drive
• Integrator function • Simple linear axis
• 3.5-inch Floppy drive
• Delay • Rotary axis
• Limiter and Scale functions • Flip flops, one shots, • Microsoft® Windows NT® (Version 4.0 SP 6) or better; Windows® 2000

• Sine wave generator • delay time • 15 MB of hard disk space


• 2 State Feedback device • Excel Data Import function (or more based on application requirements)

• 128 MB RAM minimum (application will run faster with more RAM)

Op Console devices: • VGA or higher resolution


• Push buttons, Pilot lights, Toggle switches, E-Stop (OpenGL accelerated video card recommended)
• Multi-position selector switch
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or better)
• Meters and sliders
• Thumbwheel and LED readout
• Strip chart display Catalog Number
• Configurable Message Display 9310-TSTNDENE

Rockwell Software
For more information on the latest pricing or a demonstration of any
Rockwell Software package, please contact your local Rockwell Automation
sales office or Allen-Bradley distributor. For the very latest on Rockwell
Software products, visit our website at:

www.software.rockwell.com

©2002 Rockwell Software Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. RSTestStand and the Rockwell Software logo are trademarks of Rockwell Software
Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders and are
hereby acknowledged.

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