December 15, 2014 - Sercos International, supplier of the Sercos automation bus, announced that the up-dated English edition of its Product Guide is now available. The guide lists on approximately 90 pages around 130 providers of nearly 300 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, decentralized I/O peripherals, frequency converters, 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.
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 guarantee that Sercos implementations are standard-compliant ensuring that devices from different manufacturers can be combined. Based in Germany, the organization presently has more than 90 member companies located around the world and has national 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 approximately 25 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.