About STRATON

IEC61131-3 languages

The STRATON® IEC61131-3 soft PLC runtime and workbench provide vendors and end-users with a large range of capabilities to integrate within any application environment from simple, with no other products (where STRATON® can provide everything that is required from IEC61131-3 programming/execution to SCADA/HMI and associated communications support), to integration with large-scale SCADA systems incorporating extensive fieldbus I/O (where STRATON® may provide the real time IEC61131-3 application execution and I/O processing).

The STRATON® runtime is supported on a wide range of operating systems, including:
  • Microsoft Windows (Win32, WinCE, etc)
  • VenturCom RTX
  • Linux
  • Microsoft and other variants of DOS
  • QNX
  • VxWorks
  • Mentor Nucleus
  • Mentor VRTX
  • Green Hills Software Thread-X
 STRATON OS platforms, Windows, Linux, Windriver, DOS and others

IEC60870 configuration

STRATON® supports:

  • Integration with a wide range of fieldbus devices using standard protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, IEC60870, Profinet and Profibus and CAN
  • Integration with other systems using Active X, OPC, XML, IBM MQTT and IEC61850 or custom Windows applications
  • Integration with other STRATON® runtimes using high-performance purpose built protocols
  • Full object orientation-based programming
  • Integration with existing configuration tools to make a comprehensive single solution for controller management
  • Extensive help and diagnostics facilities including configurable help files, spy lists, project comparison tools and a soft logic analyser tool

IEC61131-3 logic analyser

You can read more about the STRATON® IEC61131-3 soft PLC capabilities in these overviews:

STRATON® IEC61131-3 soft PLC workbench

STRATON® protocols including DNP3, IEC60870 and IEC61850

STRATON® IEC61131-3 soft PLC embedded tools

 

STRATON platforms

straton IEC61131-3 soft PLC embedded insideThe STRATON® IEC61131-3 soft PLC is integrated into products and solutions supplied by over 40 vendors around the world. A list of some of the most popular controller devices using STRATON® is available here.
The development environment is provided in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish allowing vendors all over the world to distribute STRATON® based solutions with their hardware and software.

 

Some examples of how STRATON® has been integrated into vendor's products are:

 

ADAM5550 PLC uses straton IEC61131-3 soft PLC
Advantech’s ADAM-5550 is part of the ADAM-5000 series of compact, distributed Data Acquisition and Control systems which support the shift toward Fieldbus-based systems. ADAM-5000 series offers two different data acquisition and control systems to allow field I/O devices to easily connect to PC network applications: ADAM-5000 DA&C systems for Ethernet or RS-485; and ADAM-5510 series of PC-based programmable standalone controllers.
The STRATON® IEC61131-3 soft PLC solution on the ADAM-5550 (running WinCE) reatly simplifies the configuration and commissioning of systems by providing a single configuration for SCADA, HMI and the device itself and automating most of this using file inputs.
Read more about Advantech and the ADAM-5000 on their website.
Wago embedded controller uses straton IEC61131-3 soft PLC
The Wago 750 (running Linux) and 758 (running WinCE) series of controllers are cost-effective industrial compact PC solutions for real time control applications. In spite of its small size, the IPC integrates all standard PC functions, including network and field bus interfaces, or local and remote control applications.
Using the STRATON® IEC61131-3 soft PLC Wago are able to offer their customers a fully distributable control solution running over Ethernet that supports all five of the IEC61131-3 languages. The distributed solution uses a publish-subscribe model that means the resulting network traffic is reduced as much as possible.
The online-change facility in STRATON® allows Wago and their users to freely add variables and function block instances and change the mapping of I/O channels with minimal effect on plant operation.
You can read more about Wago and their controllers on their website.
 

STRATON Motion Control

STRATON® provides the optimal solution for a totally integrated automation environment in controllers or drives using IEC 61131-3 languages:

  • An IEC 61131-3 runtime engine compatible with any existing controller or drives
  • Certied PLCopen IEC61131-3 editors
  • Integration of widget/controls in any existing environment
  • Pre-integrated Standard Motion Control Function Blocks


 

You can read more about the STRATON® Motion Control capabilities in this overview:

STRATON® Motion Control