The new AC500 PM595 machinery controller is optimized for robust, high performance industrial control, and is built around a 1.3 GHz processor with four 32-bit RISC processors plus an embedded double-precision floating point processor, 16 MB of user program memory and a large array of communications interfaces. The product design optimizes the ergonomics and visualizes the high performance of the whole product system. Especially the removable remote control makes it easier to handle the controller for maintenance purposes.