Standards
Standards that has been successfully and widely adopted wring costs out of the machine controllers.
EtherCAT
EtherCAThas changed the economics for how machines are built. EtherCAT is a disruptive standard that was first adopted by the Semiconductor industry and is now being adopted by major CNC vendors around the world.
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PLCopen
PLCopen can now serve as an integration platform for controlling multiple machines like a cobot load/load to CNC machine … All through EtherCAT
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OPC-UA
OPC-UA when combined with Windows RTOS like KINGSTAR or RTX64, OPC-UA because the conduit for secure cloud connectivity to enable IoT in the future
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TSN
Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a set of IEEE standards for Ethernet networking that enables deterministic communication and guarantees timely delivery of critical data.
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Modbus
Modbus is a data communications protocol originally published by Modicon (now Schneider Electric) in 1979 for use with its programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Modbus has become a de facto standard communication protocol and is now a commonly available means of connecting industrial electronic devices.
The Modbus protocol uses character serial communication lines, Ethernet, or the Internet protocol suite as a transport layer. Modbus supports communication to and from multiple devices connected to the same cable or Ethernet network. For example, there can be a device that measures temperature and another device to measure humidity connected to the same cable, both communicating measurements to the same PC.