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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Oct 21, 2003
The European 1394automation group is set to join the 1394 Trade Association, forming a worldwide group to promote "the only standard where motion, vision and I/O are brought together in one cable".
In the first quarter of 2004 the European 1394automation group will join the 1394 Trade Association, forming a worldwide group to promote "the only standard where motion, vision and I/O are brought together in one cable".
According to Twan Smetsers, Marketing of Nyquist Industrial Control: "In the coming months we will prepare this merger.
We expect that the 1394automation group will be part of the 1394 Trade Association in the first quarter of next year.
By combining the best of both worlds, this clearly leads to 'one cable, one worldwide standard'.
IEEE1394 will gain an even stronger position in the market".
According to James Snider, Executive Director of the 1394 Trade Association: "Motion control would be the next area that the trade association is focussing on.
The European group is strongly involved in motion control.
So I am very glad that by joining forces, we can improve the IEEE1394 standard for the motion control area in a short time".
IEEE1394 is an international, open, PC-based network standard that is rapidly becoming adopted by the industry.
IEEE1394 was originally developed by Apple Computer for the consumer market, to send video images smoothly across a network.
In the consumer world, the standard is also known as FireWire or i.Link.
On the initiative of Nyquist Industrial Control and Wago Kontakttechnik, a number of European companies and organisations came together in the 1394automation group.
This group was launched in April 2002 during the Hannover Messe Industrie in Hanover, Germany, bringing together the disciplines of drives, motion, vision and I/O.
One of the aims of the group is to define a solution that will enable different controllers to communicate on the same IEEE1394 bus.
"To implement this standard it is important to agree on a set of specifications", says Eric Hezemans, Chairman of the Executive Board of 1394automation and CEO of Nyquist Industrial Control.
Besides Nyquist and Wago, current participants in 1394automation include Basler Vision Components, Eurotherm Antriebstechnik, Fraunhofer Institute, Institut fur Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme, Lust Antriebstechnik, Maxon Motor and Stober Antriebstechnik.
Eight years before the establishment of the European 1394automation group, the 1394 Trade Association was founded.
Its mission is "to promote the proliferation of the IEEE1394 standard into the computer, consumer, peripheral and industrial markets to enable a truly interoperable, standardised, universal I/O and backplane interconnect".
Among the 170 members of the 1394 Trade Association are companies as Sony, Intel, MicroSoft, JVC, Philips and Samsung.
The combination of the economies of scale inherent in a consumer technology and the intrinsic properties of the IEEE1394 standard led Nyquist to choose it for its motion control systems.
Says Hezemans: "We wanted to have an existing system that was affordable for our purposes, and we ended up with the PC-platform as basis, having an outstanding user interface and lots of software available.
For the connection between the different devices we chose again for existing technology: the versatile, high-speed, low-cost, peer-to-peer IEEE1394 bus".
Of crucial importance for IEEE1394 in motion control applications is that data are transferred quickly, synchronously and in real time between devices.
The current 400 and 800Mbit/s transmission speeds are ample for the coming generation of high-speed industrial control systems.
"IEEE1394 is the only standard where motion, vision and I/O are brought together in one cable", says Hezemans.
Transmission speeds up to 3200Mbit/s are under development.
That the world is adopting the IEEE1394 standard is clearly noticeable.
Says Hezemans: "For example, all PC OEMs nowadays place the FireWire by default on their motherboards.
Over 50 million FireWire units were sold last year worldwide, and this number is increasing fast.
Furthermore, already since 1998 there are running industrial applications using IEEE1394 technology".
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