Accord is provided for Engineers to develop systems and for installations, as Development and Production Environments.
The Development Environment allows development of Process Models and HMI’s, with testing on PLC Emulator and Simulator and generation of Process Design and Test documents.
The Production Environment provides connection to PLC’s (through OPC Servers) instead of Emulators, and HMI Clients. Redundancy and Data Integrity modules can also be enabled.
Recipe, Plan/MES and Audits can be used in either environment.
The software is the same in both environments, the choice is made to make the functionality clearer.
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The Development Environment is provided as an annual licence with full support.
The Production Environment is quoted as perpetual licence and support can be quoted also.
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Accord is priced for mid range. an Accord project should be significantly cheaper than any main PCS systems, and also significantly cheaper than a standard PLC/HMI project due to the savings in development and documentation.
Pricing for any requirements is available from Logicon Ireland. Logicon may direct to other regional partners also.