PCS Data Viewer
This tool provides a detailed, table-based view of the hardware from your uploaded PCS project files (`.l5x`, `.xhw`). It's ideal for inventory management and detailed analysis.
Key Features
- Controller Selection: Use the dropdown to switch between the PLC projects you've uploaded. Your selection is remembered and carried across to the PCS Asset Map and Ladder Viewer (and back), so you don't have to re-pick a controller each time you move between them.
- Hide / Show racks: The Hide ⚫ buttons in "Quick Navigation" or next to each rack — or right-click a rack on the PCS Asset Map — remove a rack from view and from the Bill of Materials. Because the state is shared, a rack hidden here also drops out of the PCS Asset Map and Architecture Comparison, and hiding from the map updates this page.
- Remove from BOM (keep visible): The amber Remove from BOM ⚫ button excludes a rack from the Total Bill of Materials only — the rack stays fully visible in the tables and on the maps, and is tagged with an "Excluded from BOM" badge. On the PCS Asset Map the same racks also show an amber dashed border and an Excl. BOM label. Use it for spares or comms racks you don't want counted in the materials total. A note under the Total BOM shows how many visible racks are excluded, and the exclusion also applies to the PDF / "Export All" totals.
- Highlight a module across racks: Click any catalogue number — in the Total BOM, a per-rack BOM, or a rack slot row — to highlight every matching module throughout the racks (click again to clear). Clicking from a BOM jumps to the first occurrence in the racks. Ideal for answering "where are all my Discontinued 1756-CNB/E cards?"
- Accurate chassis counting: Each rack is a distinct BOM line (chassis catalog from the L5X Module tree when known, otherwise the rack name — e.g. Peer_Peer remote chassis). Slot modules are listed separately, including remote Slot 0 adapters (CNB, ENBT, AENTR, …) — each remote rack's adapter is a physical card and is counted in addition to any matching local scanner.
- Lifecycle Status Dots: Each component shows a coloured dot for its lifecycle status (see the legend in the PCS Asset Map section).
- Exporting: Export the hardware data for the current PLC:
- Export Report as CSV: a full component listing for every visible rack (a BOM-excluded rack's modules are still listed — only the aggregated total omits them).
- Export Report as PDF: a professional PDF with a summary Bill of Materials plus a detailed table per visible rack.
- Export All Reports: the PDF report for every controller, combined.
Lifecycle colours
- Green: Active
- Orange: End of Life / Limited
- Red: Discontinued / Obsolete
- Grey: Unknown
On ACE Codex Online the lifecycle table is seeded with the product file. You do not upload a Lifecycle CSV on the hosted hub.