2024 ASTEC Mobile Screens Rexcon® Concrete Automation Controls Base

2024 ASTEC Mobile Screens Rexcon® Concrete Automation Controls

RexCon is one of the few concrete batch plant manufacturers to develop, manufacture, and support its own line of batch plant automation controls. RexCon panels are built, tested, and wired by an in-house electrical team. By manufacturing and supporting an entire concrete production package, RexCon offers producers a single source for concrete production and automation needs, faster issue resolution, and enhanced product customization.

Known for its simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency, RexCon RC3 support staff can provide custom design modifications and programming to meet all of your automation needs.

This control builds on the already very successful Rexcon Control and Communication Center (RC3). Some of the features and benefits included in the Lightning system are a new state of the art PLC that utilizes a high speed Ethernet communication port for an extremely fast batching control. The new PLC can be updated with a USB flash drive that can also be used to back up the system.

The PLC CPU, power supply, I/O relays, and associated I/O modules are all mounted on a din rail allowing additional modules to be added at the customer site as well as replaced quickly. Also the parts are available around the world so replacements are readily available quickly.

Lastly with all the enhancements that have been put into the Rexcon Lightning system. The control interface is exactly the same as the RC3 control the users have come to know so no specialized operator training is required to run the system if the operator has used RC3 in the past.

Features may include:

• PLC & PC software update using a flash drive

• Uses an off-the-shelf power supply

• The PLC modules mounted on a standard DIN rail

• Same “look & feel” as the RC3 so operation is the same

• The manual panel is very nearly the same as the RC3.

• In the wall-mount j-box all parts are off-the-shelf

• The new leading edge PLC CPU module is extremely fast

• Has an abundance of memory

• No battery to maintain the program & data in memory

• All the features supported by RC3 are also supported by the Lightning control.