ABB Procontic T2000 in the past and AC500 PLC today – Vogi international

ABB offers a comprehensive range of automation products, all of which deliver powerful functionality across various industrial sectors. Today, we focus on Procontic and AC500 PLCs. Below is a historical overview of Procontic: 1981: ABB launched the revolutionary Procontic product family, considered one of the first PLCs on the market to offer distributed I/O. 1982: …

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ABB Procontic T2000 in the past and AC500 PLC today

November 20, 2025

ABB offers a comprehensive range of automation products, all of which deliver powerful functionality across various industrial sectors. Today, we focus on Procontic and AC500 PLCs.

Below is a historical overview of Procontic:

1981: ABB launched the revolutionary Procontic product family, considered one of the first PLCs on the market to offer distributed I/O.

1982: Procontic T 300 was introduced, offering advanced programming languages such as Pascal, Fortran, and C.

1989: Procontic T 200 was widely used in infrastructure applications and deployed extensively as a data collector.

Early 1990s: The Procontic family launched its last product, CS 31. The series then underwent restructuring and upgrades. For example, in 1994, the CS 31 platform was upgraded to the Advant Controller AC 31.

2005: ABB launched the all-new AC500 PLC platform, marking a new era for the product line.

The entire AC500 PLC series continues to safeguard the global industrial economy.

Representative AC500 PLC models are as follows:

DI524    

DC522  

DC523  

DC532  

DX522  

DX531  

DO524

AI523    

AX521  

AX522  

AO523  

AI531    

AO522

DO526

TU531

CD522

AI531

DX522

DX531

PM554-TP-ETH  

PM556-TP-ETH  

PM564-TP-ETH  

PM564-RP-ETH 

PM564-RP-ETH-AC

PM566-TP-ETH

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