RDP up to speed with DeviceNet

Industrial applications for DeviceNet are growing rapidly, particularly in the harsher industrial automation environments in which RDP specialises.

Industrial applications for DeviceNet are growing rapidly, particularly in the harsher industrial automation environments in which RDP specialises.

The centre of technical support for DeviceNet is at the International Manufacturing Centre at the University of Warwick.

As part of the resource offered to users of DeviceNet, the centre provides interoperability demonstrations and conformance testing for a wide variety of devices and situations.

RDP's magnetostrictive position sensors from the MTS range are DeviceNet compatible, and form part of the interoperability demonstration facility at Warwick.

As Richard Piggin, senior research engineer for DeviceNet at Warwick explained recently, "one RDP unit is being used on a lift station to demonstrate vertical position measurement within a peer to peer DeviceNet network arrangement.

Only a few networks support this implementation, which is why DeviceNet is gaining in popularity." For further information on DeviceNet visit www.warwick.ac.uk/devicenet, and for information on MTS DeviceNet sensors visit www.rdpelectronics.com.

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