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May 2005 News
| Baumüller Opts for State-of-the-Art Ethernet Technology |
 Realtime solutions designed to meet the highest requirements Nuremberg/Hartford. The modern Ethernet technology employed by Baumüller is a prerequisite for the highest quality as well as highly synchronous and precise production workflows. Baumüller has broken new ground in combining the drive bus, field bus and various interfaces in the automation architectures in a cost-effective manner. Baumüller has specialised in the automation of high-precision production workflows for many years already. Now the technology is being perfected: the realtime solutions from Baumüller meet the highest requirements. The utilisation of Ethernet not only simplifies the automation process but also significantly reduces the interfacing and implementation costs. The EtherCAT slave controller, a high-performance, Ethernet-based, realtime-capable, synchronous field bus system, has been available at Baumüller since summer 2004. This controller was implemented in an option module as an EtherCAT interface for the drive system b maXX 4400. Software profiles of existing standards were implemented on the basis of the EtherCAT interface. Today, Baumüller already supports CANopen profiles and the profile Servo over EtherCAT. This drive profile, which is based on the SERCOS standard, paves the way for the realisation of cost-effective field bus interfacing with the EtherCAT slave controllers ESC-10 and ESC-20. The planned introduction of the EtherCAT slave controller ASICs in 2005 will enhance cost-effectiveness even further. Integrating the new field bus technology from Baumüller is extremely easy: from a user perspective, the drive and automation profile structures remain practically unchanged as do the application programs. About Baumüller The Baumüller Group with its headquarters located in Nuremberg is one of the leading manufacturers of innovative electric drive and automation systems. About 1400 employees plan, develop and produce complete and intelligent system solutions for mechanical engineering at 40 locations spread all over the world: From control cabinets to electric drives, from converters to controllers, also including software modules, Motion Control software as per PLCopen as well as operation and visualization tools. The Baumüller solutions in drive technology are used in all branches of mechanical engineering. Baumüller is one of the leading partners in automation in the printing, plastics, packaging and textile industry worldwide. For more information, visit www.baumueller.de. |