3ADR025088K0201
Product Life Cycle Announcement
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22.11.2012
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Life cycle change of some AC500 CPU or TB modules
1. LIFE CYCLE PHASE CHANGE
This document announces that the following AC500 CPU modules and terminal bases TB (see list),
hereafter the product, will be transferred to the Obsolete phase of the ABB life cycle model on
December 1, 2012.
2. SUPPORT AVAILABILITY
During the obsolete phase ABB cannot guarantee availability of product support within reasonable cost
or technically:
Sale of AC500 obsolete parts is limited to available inventory
Sale of AC500 obsolete repair services is limited to component availability
3. RECOMMENDED ACTION
It is recommended that the AC500 obsolete parts (see list) will be replaced with other ABB AC500
programmable PLC Classic direct replacement or active for new projects.
4. FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information on the available services, such as replacement possibilities and the ABB life cycle
policy for PLC, please contact your local ABB organization or ABB Product Support Sales & Marketing
by e-mail [email protected].
Copyright 2012/2013 ABB Automation Products GmbH. All rights reserved.
3ADR025088K0201
Product Life Cycle Announcement
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Date
Language
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Product Group PLC
22.11.2012
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Creator name
Rmy Ameloot
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5. ABB LIFE CYCLE MODEL
Active
o Normal product sales and promotion phase
Classic (product maintenance phase)
o Product actively sold but without any major development
o An announcement within Classic phase is made to remove products from active price lists and
catalogs
o It is still available for sale mainly for expansion of existing systems
o No further enhancements major latent anomalies still fixed
o Product is actively maintained
o Price may increase (e.g. due to lower volume, vendor components costs, etc)
o Step-Up migration from older products to this version supported
Limited (Spare part)
o The manufacture of new hardware is no longer supported by development
new hardware availability may continue, but is not guaranteed
no new development to replace obsolete components
increasing use of refurbished hardware
o Service support (field service, phone support, etc) continues, but may diminish over time with
decreasing installed base
o Spare Parts available from stock
o Price will increase due to lower volume and vendor component costs
Obsolete
o Only occurs when
ABB is no longer capable of supporting the product technically
Its no longer commercially feasible to do so
Components / technology no longer available or direct replacement available
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Product Life Cycle Announcement
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Product Group PLC
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P/N
1SAP112100R7170
1SAP114100R0170
1SAP140200R7100
1SAP140500R3160
1SAP140100R1170
1SAP170700R7001
TB521-ETH
(custom.)
TB541-ETH
PM582 (custom.)
EC581-ARCNET
(custom.)
BCU06-ETH
(custom.)
CM577-ETH
(custom.)
3(3)
Distribution
Rmy Ameloot
Description
Page
Public
Replacement P/N
Description
Life
cycle
status
->Obsolete
1SAP112100R0270
TB521-ETH
Active
->Obsolete
->Obsolete
1SAP114100R0270
1SAP140200R0200
TB541-ETH
PM582
Active
Classic
->Obsolete
1SAP140500R3260
EC581-ARCNET
Active
->Obsolete
Could be replaced by
1SAP150000R0270
PM590-ETH
Classic
->Obsolete
1SAP170700R0001
CM577-ETH
Active
Life cycle
status
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