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History of the company


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)



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Update of the LT100 PLC :
- new processor
- Operating temperature : -20°C / + 70°C
- new OPAL workbench (Windows NT)



1996 : Release of IEC1131 Isagraf LT160



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With the Isagraf kernel, LT160 becomes a IEC1131-3 PLC.



1997 : Railway business area : Release of RIOM Generation 1



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1st generation of EN50155 products

based on LT160 format,
EN50155 railway PLC
FIP protocol
(Factory Instrumentation Protocol or Field Industrial Protocol).


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TMRT




Watertight version



1998 : Release of the ACS (1st generation)



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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.

Trophy of innovation at AUTOMATION FAIR 2001



2003 : Release of ALTO Isagraf V3



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ALTO becomes a micro PLC over Ethernet
with Isagraf workbench



2004 : Release of RIOM FIP (Generation 2) for railways TCMS



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2nd generation of EN50155 products

Box packaging
New CPU
FIP protocol

Final customer : RATP (MF2000 project)



2005 : Release of OPAL32 workbench for LT160



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OPAL32 is the update of OPAL LT160 workbench

More diagnostic functions
Ethernet connection
Windows XP interface



2006 : Release of the RIOM MVB (Generation 3)



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3rd generation of EN50155 products

RIOM over MVB (Main Vehicle Bus protocol)
for railway embedded systems



2007 : Release of LT200 (3rd LT generation)



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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)



2008 : Release of ACS (2nd generation)




see ACS



2009 : Release of RIOM EtherNet/IP (Generation 4) for Railway TCMS




see RIOM EtherNet/IP (TM)

24000 RIOM sold since the first generation !


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