Series/group-level lifecycle status taken from B&R Industrial Automation's own public Automation Studio 6 Online Help: its "Discontinuations — Hardware" page lists, under the single heading "No longer supported with AS 6.x", 704 hardware models in 32 group headings — grouped here, using B&R's own headings, into 27 records. B&R staff describe that list in B&R's official community as "a list of all discontinued hardware" and state that all hardware removed from AS 6 "was already discontinued before (some for many years)". It covers the pre-X20 control generations (System 2003/2005/EC20 — 170 models), three HMI generations (PANELWARE, Power Panel PP15–PP500, Mobile Panel MP40–MP200 and MP7100, PPC70), the industrial-PC lines (APC510/620/810/820, APC/PPC910, APC2100/PPC2100, PPC300/700/800), Automation Panels (AP800–AP99D), 66 specific X20 modules and 3 X67 modules, ACOPOS interface modules and inverters, 8LS servo motors, logic scanners, and accessories. One further record rests on a B&R download page's own revision information: the discontinued pre-variant-4 hardware of the ACOPOSmulti SafeMotion EnDat 2.2 module (8BVSV2SAFE1-1), whose named replacement is hardware variant 4 of the same order number.
What B&R does not publish — stated plainly: B&R runs a formal lifecycle programme (Active → Classic → Limited → Obsolete, with a Last-Time-Buy stage), but it publishes no discontinuation dates, no last-order dates, and no per-model successors on the list, and the per-product lifecycle status on its product pages is visible only after customer login. This dataset therefore carries no dates and no lifecycle phases — exactly B&R's published record, the same honest shape as the Beckhoff file in this catalogue. The structural urgency is real even without dates: every model in the file is unsupported from Automation Studio 6 onward; AS 4.12 is the last engineering environment for all of it.
Honesty notes: The X20 system is not discontinued — only the 66 listed X20 models are; POWERLINK is likewise not discontinued (B&R's FAQ places it in the "Active" phase). Group tallies from the rendered list reconcile exactly to B&R's 704 entries. The Online Help is a JavaScript app, so the list was rendered in a live browser session and read in full during compilation — a plain text fetch returns only its welcome shell, which is why earlier passes undercounted this brand.
Verification standard: official B&R sources only (help.br-automation.com Discontinuations list, rendered live; br-automation.com lifecycle pages and download revision information; B&R staff statements on community.br-automation.com). Distributor "discontinued by manufacturer" labels were deliberately NOT used.
| Product Family | Catalog/Series | Lifecycle Status | Recommended Replacement / Migration Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Controllers & I/O — System 2003 / 2005 / EC20 | 170 models: 3-series (3CP260–3CP382 CPUs, 3DI/3DO/3DM, 3AI/3AO/3AT, 3EX, 3IF, 3NC, 3PS, 3UM…) + 7-series (7CP430–7CP774 CPUs, 7DI/7DO/7DM, 7AI/7AO/7AT, 7EC, 7EX, 7IF, 7ME/7MM, 7NC…) | Discontinued — listed on B&R's official Automation Studio 6 Online Help "Discontinuations — Hardware" page under "No longer supported with AS 6.x". Corroborated in B&R's own Automation Help 4.12.8 RevInfo (QCAS-167): "the discontinued System 2003". No date published by B&R | None named on the list |
| HMI — Power Panel PP200/300/400/500 | 83 models: 4PP320/351/352/381/420/451/452/480/481/482, 5PP320/520/551/552/580/581/582, 5PP5CP/5PP5IF/5PP5IO | Discontinued — same list basis. No date published | None named on the list |
| Industrial PC — APC510/620/810/820 | 81 models: 5AC600/800/801/803 interface & accessory units, 5PC510/511/600/800/810/820 system units (incl. 5PC810.SX01–SX05) | Discontinued — same list basis. No date published | None named on the list |
| Control & I/O — X20 modules | 66 models: CPUs X20CP0201–X20CP3586 & X20cCP1301–X20cCP3586, bus bases X20BB22–47, I/O & comms, SafeLOGIC X20SL80xx, power supplies X20PS95xx, X20XC0201/0202/0292 | Discontinued — same list basis; B&R staff separately confirm X20CP3584 and X20CP1382 as discontinued, last supported in AS 4.12. No date published. The X20 SYSTEM is not discontinued — only these 66 listed models are | None named on the list |
| Motion — ACOPOSmulti SafeMotion EnDat 2.2 (pre-variant-4 hardware) | 8BVSV2SAFE1-1, hardware variants before variant 4 | "discontinued" (Tier A) — the model's own HW-upgrade revision information on br-automation.com states: "Replacement product for discontinued ACOPOSmulti SafeMotion EnDat 2.2 (8BVSV2SAFE1-1) with new hardware variant 4". No date published | 8BVSV2SAFE1-1 with new hardware variant 4 (same order number); the same entry also references the EnDat 2.2 Gen2 module 8BSMC9173 |
Sample rows are copied verbatim from the paid dataset file (status and replacement columns; the paid file also carries the date column, migration conditions, a source URL per record, and a full appendix enumerating all 704 listed models by group).
Full file: all 28 series/group-level records (27 from B&R's Discontinuations — Hardware grouping, covering all 704 listed models, + 1 Tier A variant record), plus migration notes, a coverage-gaps section explaining why no dates or phases are shown, and a full appendix enumerating every listed model by group. Clean Markdown, compiled 2026-10-22.
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Facts compiled from public OEM lifecycle sources; not affiliated with or endorsed by B&R Industrial Automation or ABB. Trademarks belong to their owners. This is a migration-planning reference, not engineering sign-off. Verify production-critical selections against B&R's current publications before acting.