• Reduces PLC hardware
• Easy and quick set-up
• Improves control performance
• Improves PLC performance
• Minimizes signal conditioning hardware

The Mini8 is an ideal partner to a PLC in multi-loop PID applications such as plastics extrusion and multi-zone furnaces. By devolving loop control to the Mini8 the PLC can concentrate on providing fast and effective logic control without the burden of running complex control algorithms. The Mini8 is a very cost effective alternative to implementing control loops in PLC. Providing not only better control performance and easy configuration the Mini8 offers the same deterministic response and autotune feature as Eurotherm's panel mount controllers. Eurotherm’s open approach to communication, supporting both the Modbus and Devicenet protocols, makes it easy to interface to intelligent masters such as a PLC.

• 5.7" touchscreen LCD
• 128 user pages, 320 x 240 pixel resolution
• Modbus RTU master
• 128 Recipes
• Process alarms
• Standard configurations

The VT505 operator terminal uses touchscreen technology to provide an extremely easy and flexible interface to the Mini8. Standard configurations can be pre-ordered to suit different Mini8 applications or users can use the VT505 configuration tools to create their own customized view of their process.