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Product category: Engineering Education, Resources and Standards
News Release from: Sercos North America
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 08 May 2006

Profile connects distributed control
functions

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A new profile standardises the interconnection of motion controllers using the new Sercos III Industrial Ethernet-based standard for motion control.

The Sercos Trade Organisations have released the specification for the Controller-to-Controller (C2C) Synchronisation and Communication Profile, a profile for interconnecting motion controllers using the new Sercos III Industrial Ethernet-based standard for motion control The profile defines mechanisms to interconnect distributed control functions and to synchronise distributed motion controls in modular machines and systems via the Sercos III interface

The specification takes into consideration innovative Sercos III features, such as hardware redundancy, hot-plugging and cross communication.

This effort addresses the increasing need in manufacturing systems engineering in which individual machine modules not only need to be connected mechanically, but also need to be integrated into communication networks and coupled in hard real time.

Typical applications for this profile are in printing, packaging and processing machines, as well as machine tools with special requirements for control systems and synchronisation, such as machine concepts with gantry axes or rotary transfer tables.

Manufacturer-specific solutions - based on available Sercos interface physics - currently exist for synchronisation between distributed motion controls.

With the C2C profile, this type of communication has now been standardised.

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