(Lake In The Hills, IL) A new 6-page brochure describes SERCOS III, the third generation of the internationally standardized SERCOS interface (IEC 61491) for communications between digital controls, drives, I/O and sensors.The brochure describes how SERCOS III merges the proven real-time communications mechanisms of the SERCOS interface with the Industrial Ethernet infrastructure.
It describes SERCOS’ real-time communications experience, available ring and line topologies, the structure of real-time and non-real-time SERCOS data using Ethernet data frames, cycle times, and expected performance of various servo system configurations.The brochure can be downloaded from www.sercos.com in pdf format.

