EtherNet/IP conformance testing comes to Europe
An
ODVA product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Dec 17, 2004
The ODVA has authorised Europe's first test service provider for EtherNet/IP conformance testing.
With user demand for EtherNet/IP rapidly increasing, the ODVA and the Center Verteilte Systeme at the Institute of Ergonomics (CVS@IAF), Manufacturing Systems and Automation of Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany, have set up the first European facility for EtherNet/IP product conformance testing.
At the beginning of October, CVS@IAF was officially authorised by ODVA as a test service provider for EtherNet/IP conformance testing.
ODVA currently manages the specifications and oversees conformance testing for DeviceNet and EtherNet/IP, with this testing crucial in providing general industry with the vendor-independent assurance that products which are brought to market fully comply with the ODVA specifications.
ODVA's authorised test service providers (TSPs) conduct conformance tests to defined standards, and EtherNet/IP products that pass the tests receive an official declaration of conformity from ODVA and earn the right to use ODVA's "EtherNet/IP Conformance Tested" certification and logo.
ODVA Europe Chairman Paul Brooks comments: "Increasing user demand for EtherNet/IP connected products and systems has resulted in a significant increase in the number of vendors migrating their equipment to EtherNet/IP".
"I am delighted that ODVA is opening a European test facility and expanding global access to its conformance test services".
"This will give users the assurance of device interoperability that they need for today's automation systems, and will reinforce EtherNet/IP's status as the class leading Industrial Ethernet solution".
Heading up the EtherNet/IP testing activities at CVS@IAF is Ralf Messerschmidt.
"CVS@IAF is very proud of its appointment as the first European TSP for EtherNet/IP, and of the high confidence that ODVA has placed in the Institute".
"With our expertise in EtherNet/IP and our record of activities in this area - such as the successful implementation of a complete EtherNet/IP stack in Java and C++ - this official endorsement of EtherNet/IP test service provider is a welcome recognition of our work at the cutting edge of communications technologies".
ODVA Executive Director Katherine Voss adds: "ODVA has a ten year history of commitment to providing industry with open, interoperable networks".
"EtherNet/IP, and conformance testing of EtherNet/IP products, are cornerstones of this commitment".
"We selected CVS@IAF as our first European test service provider because of its leading position in Ethernet communications".
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