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The CIMREX Company provides a wide range of operator terminals that can be used with any PMAC through a serial connection. The options include different terminal sizes, color or monochrome displays, and touch-screen or regular keys. The terminals are designed for industrial environments, and the fronts can withstand oil and water. CIMREX provides a very easy to use Windows based program to allow the setup of the terminals. The program is the same for any model of terminal, which means that a project made for a given model could be transported to another terminal model with minor modifications. Examples for the programming of each model are included in the form of demo programs making the initial programming of the terminal a very easy process. Communications with PMAC is very simple. The CIMREX-71 terminal, for example, is a touch-screen type with color display. An action on the screen is simply defined as an area (rectangle, circle or invisible) that can have associated to it any PMAC variable (P, Q, I or M). When the area on the screen is touched, the variable can change state between 0 and 1 in different ways. The different methods are all selected on the same dialog box and are: Momentary, Toggle, ON or OFF. A PLC or Motion Program in PMAC can then take appropriate action based on the value of the selected variable. The CIMREX-30 terminal, on the other hand, has regular function keys instead of a touch-screen. Besides this difference, however, the programming of the keys is quite similar to the touch-screen case. Actions on the CIMREX-30 terminal are simply defined in a dialog box for a particular screen or block. The function keys defined in the dialog box for a particular screen can have associated to it any PMAC variable (P, Q, I or M). Then, the PLC or a Motion Program PMAC code will monitor a change in the selected variable and take action accordingly. Based on the similarities on the communication schemes of both terminals, the PMAC code could be the same even if the terminal model is eventually changed.

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