‘Sercos’
A Engineeringtalk guide
Start with the news release
Rexroth launches Indradrive Mi from
Bosch Rexroth - Electric Drives and Controls, which we summarised at the time by saying "Rexroth has announced the launch of the Indradrive Mi with a new kind of build concept. ".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release Starter kit brings Daleks to life from
Trio Motion Technology: "The MC206X Starter Kit includes the motion controller configured to suit the axis count and drive technology required along with all the cables, SD card memory, software and manuals.".
In July 2008, we covered the news from Festo
- take a look at Software speeds servomotor setup
which says: "Machine designers and builders can fully commission a complete high-performance motion control drive axis, including controller, motor and actuator, in minutes. ".
Take a look also at the news release from Sercos North America, Festo chooses real-time Ethernet standard,
as well as Safety specification is added to Sercos III from Sercos North America,
and Servodrive package handles up to 30 axes from Moog Controls.
Latest stories...
Motion control system offers simple setup (March 2008)
Trio's Euro209 allows users to exactly match application requirements, minimise purchase costs, simplify software and hardware development and reduce production timescales.
Packaging software smoothes product changeover (March 2008)
When using Rexroth's FlexProfile, a relationship can be established between motion segments on multiple axes to ensure that the pre-defined dependencies are retained when parameters are changed.
Fieldbus standards come up to date (January 2008)
New edition includes profiles for Real-Time Ethernet fieldbus networks, together with other industry sector network profiles which had not been included in the previous editions.
Servo drives combine reliability and flexibility (January 2008)
The Digitax ST range has been designed to provide lean manufacturing environments with smaller, more flexible machinery.
Alliance targets safety-critical software (January 2008)
Ixxat is to develop a portable stack software for the CIP Safety on Sercos safety protocol.
Specification links Sercos with IP networks (December 2007)
Protocol allows standard Ethernet IP communication with a Sercos III network both during cyclic real-time network operation and during non-real-time operation.
Chinese office takes Sercos to Asia (December 2007)
Beijing hosts the organisation's fourth office that serves as a contact point for developers and users.
Sercos III is recognised by IEC standards (November 2007)
With the third generation, Sercos not only increases speed, but now also enables the use of Cat5 copper cables in addition to optical fibre waveguides.
Further reading
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Safety specification is added to Sercos III
Users of Sercos III real-time Ethernet technology can now rely on an established network-spanning safety protocol.
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Specification links Sercos with IP networks
Protocol allows standard Ethernet IP communication with a Sercos III network both during cyclic real-time network operation and during non-real-time operation.
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