Since 1983, each year, Leroy automation improves and perpetuates his products :
1983 : Foundation
LEROY AUTOMATION starts up with two activities :
- Design of products for industry area
- Programming services in industry on Merlin Gerin PLC (PB400, PB80, PB200) and SMC PLC.
1984 - 1987 : Release of the TDI range
TDI is an industrial human machine interface : display with IP65 keyboard
1984 : 20 characters display. Up to 2000 lines of text. PBNET Slave. Set up with the French MINITEL terminal.
1985 : 80 characters display. Jbus master and slave.
1986 : Set up with DOS Personal Computer : new tool in the industry.
1987 : release of Ex version
1988 - 1989 : Release of the modbus remote input/ouput range : TES
TES : Remote Input Output Module over Modbus protocol. Astonishing success ! First RIOM over standard protocol compatible with all main PLC of the moment. Beginning of the decentralization of the IO.
1988 : Logic input/ouput range
1989 : Analogic input/output range
20000 products sold.
1990 : Energy business area : release of the "TES chronology".
The TES Chronology (32 inputs) detects digital events with 5 ms resolution. suitable for low voltage electrical substations. Very low cost. "Time stamped MODBUS" protocol.
1991 : Release of TES Gateway
TES Gateway Application on the TES board to ask quickly numerous modbus slaves and provide to the master (PLC, PC, supervisor) a single table.
1992-1993 : Marine business area : Release of TES range for "Charles de Gaulle" aircraft carrier.
Update of the TES range to meet Navy specifications. Cassette packaging.
1994 : Release of the remote input/output platform LT100 (1st LT generation)
Contrary to the TES range, LT100 is a modular Input/Output system.
Configuration tool : Quick set up with OPAL workbench.
Operating temperature : -10°C / +60°C
1995 : Release of LT160 (2nd LT generation)
Update of the LT100 PLC : - new processor - Operating temperature : -20°C / + 70°C - new OPAL workbench (Windows NT)
1996 : Release of IEC1131 Isagraf LT160
With the Isagraf kernel, LT160 becomes a IEC1131-3 PLC.
1997 : Railway business area : Release of the LT-RIOM
1st generation of EN50155 products
based on LT160 format, EN50155 railway PLC FIP protocol (Factory Instrumentation Protocol or Field Industrial Protocol).
TMRT
Watertight version
1998 : Energy business area : Release of the 1st ACS generation
ACS21 based on LT160 PLC, Suitable for High voltage energy management in substation with
- Secured Input/output boards. - Three voltage power supply on the same board(24V-48V-120Vcc)
1999 : ISO9001 Certification
Leroy Automation achieves the ISO9001 Certification from DNV for design, manufacturing, sales and associated services of automation products.
2000 : Release of LT160 over TCP/IP protocols
LT160 PLC over Ethernet has Modbus TCP master and slave, SMTP, SNMP, telnet protocols.
2001 : Release of ALTO WebIO
ALTO WebIO : an industrial Remote Input Output Modules over Ethernet with embedded HTTP server :
- Modbus/TCP slave - Emails if events - Trap SNMP if events - Quick start up with HTML pages in the embedded web site.
More diagnostic functions Ethernet connection Windows XP interface
2006 : Railway business area : Release of Alto MVB RIOM
3rd generation of EN50155 products
RIOM over MVB (Main Vehicle Bus protocol) for railway embedded systems
2007 : Release of LT200 (3rd LT generation)
LT200 - New CPU - New OS : Linux 2.6 - New free SDK (C programmation with GCC/GDB) . - Operating temperature : -40°C / +70°C - compatible with I/O boards of LT160 (2nd generation)
