C-More Operator Interface Panels

C-more industrial touch screens are designed to give you the best cost of ownership, considering initial price, features, ease of use, reliability and free award-winning technical support. We continue to improve both hardware and software features. Perhaps this is why more and more people find that C-more touch panels have what it takes to meet most of their HMI application needs. But don't take our word for it, see for yourself - read the reviews that C-more customers have submitted. C-more is designed and manufactured by our parent company, Koyo Electronics, part of the multi-billion dollar JTEKT group.

With the C-more series, featuring STN and TFT touch screens, AutomationDirect now provides the best combination of reliability, ease of use, and features at the lowest possible prices. The C-more line of operator interface HMI touch panels is one of the most powerful and easy to use in the industry. With C-more flat panel touch screens, you can virtually replace almost all mechanical pushbuttons, switches, meters, and other peripheral devices.

C-more is programmed with easy-to-use configuration software that provides a powerful set of tools for developing simple or very complex applications. The C-more software makes touchscreen panel setup and C-more programming quick and simple, and all C-more touch panels use the same programming package.

C-more touch panels include many important new features engineered into the product design to provide outstanding hardware and software.

Analog touch sensing to eliminate touch cell boundaries
More memory and methods to get data in/out of the panel
Overlapping active devices on the touch screen
65,368 colors for enhanced pictures on 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15" TFT panels (15 shades of gray on 6” STN touch screen panels)
Higher screen resolutions, 12" and 15" panels
Built-in project simulation, test on PC while developing
Serial RS232, RS422/485 and Ethernet 10/100BaseT communications
Programming via USB or Ethernet
Optional AC power adapter
Bright backlight bulbs
50,000 hour backlight life on all displays
User replaceable bulbs on 8, 10, 12 & 15" panels
Animation of bitmaps
4,000 built-in symbols and 10 typefaces with hundreds of font sizes
PID faceplate, trending, alarming and recipe abilities
Background screen option for each created screen
Data logging
Built-in FTP server, e-mail client, Web server
Event Manager to trigger actions based on assigned state changes, schedules, PLC tag names or other events set up in a database environment. The event can also trigger a sound bite, initiate a screen capture, send a data file (FTP), send an e-mail, and more.
Audio output port

A great feature of the C-more HMI panels is their connectivity to many different types of devices. In addition to Direct LOGIC PLCs, you can connect to certain Allen-Bradley, GE, Mitsubishi, Omron, or Modicon PLCs (see list below).

C-More can also connect to multiple devices and different brands of PLCs simultaneously! C-more can act as an interpreter or "protocol bridge", passing PLC tag values back-and-forth between separate PLC protocols.

We have added several new protocols for the Allen Bradley PLC brand. The new AB Ethernet drivers allow the simple connectivity of multiple panels and/or multiple Allen-Bradley PLCs. We have also added ControlLogix® Ethernet/IP Tag Messaging support. This new feature helps increase productivity by reducing the time often required to map your PLC tag database into the HMI. You can import the RSLogix 5000 L5K file directly or with just a few clicks of the mouse you can directly enter your ControlLogix/ CompactLogix tags from the PLC into C-more. No mapping or translation required!

Full featured C-more panels can communicate via various types of networking protocols using the Ethernet network interface. The Ethernet port can be used for downloading a project to the panel, for communication with multiple PLCs (and multiple brands of PLCs), and for advanced features such as e-mail and FTP access and allowing the panel to act as a Web server.

DirectLogic ECOM Ethernet enables your full featured C-more panel to connect to your AutomationDirect PLC Ethernet network. For the high-speed Ethernet LAN 10/100BaseT network connection, the following PLC modules can be used.

The other Ethernet drivers included with all full featured C-more panels are:
EtherNet/IP™ [see note] MODBUS TCP Entivity (Think & Do) MODBUS TCP/IP

C-More® Operator Interface Touch Panels