October 15, 2013 - Sercos International published the English edition of its 2013 Product Guide. The 80-page guide lists approximately 125 providers of Sercos-enabled products and serves as a guide for all mechanical engineers, systems integrators and control unit manufacturers who use the high-performance Sercos automation bus or intend to do so. The providers cover a wide range of products and services: drives, frequency converters, decentralized I/O peripherals, various sensors and a large selection of control systems. Anyone interested can find the right solution for almost every automation application.
In addition to specialized device manufacturers, numerous complete solution providers for different industries such as robotics, machine tools, packaging and printing machines as well as general automation are listed. Distribution of the products across major automation categories is evidence that the Sercos automation bus has an impressive universal application. The guide can be downloaded online
About Sercos International
Sercos International is an association of users and manufacturers that is in charge of technical development, standardization, certification and marketing for the Sercos automation bus. Conformance tests ensure that implementations of Sercos are in accordance with standards and thus allow the combination and integration of devices from different manufacturers. Based in Germany, the organization presently has more than 70 member companies located around the world and has liaison offices in North America and Asia.
About Sercos
The SErial Realtime COmmunication System, or Sercos, is one of the world’s leading digital interfaces for communication between controls, drives, and decentralized peripheral devices. Sercos has been used in machine engineering for more than 20 years and is implemented in over 4 million real-time nodes. With its open, manufacturer-independent Ethernet-based architecture, Sercos III is a universal bus for all automation solutions.
