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  • Sercos powers innovative robot

    The Sercos automation bus powers the revolutionary drive construction and unique rotation options of the Penta Robotics’ Veloce parallel robot.
    23 July, 2014 | 2 minutes

  • Profichip celebrates its 15th anniversary

    In 1999, Wolfgang Seel founded the company and initially developed microchips for the PROFIBUS system – one of the most important bus systems in the automation industry.
    21 July, 2014 | 1 minutes

  • Elmo announces Free Online Motion Control Practice System

    Elmo is offering login access to its EASII Experience RPS for anyone to explore motors and drives in action, configure the EtherCAT network, perform complex multi-axis synchronized motions, and develop IEC-61131-3 programs.
    21 July, 2014 | 1 minutes

  • IT meets Automation with OPC UA

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 visions, which includes connecting people and services, leverages open communications, like OPC UA, and embedded-to-enterprise computing.
    21 July, 2014 | 3 minutes

  • IP Technology-The Future for Industrial Automation

    By Mike Hannah, Rockwell Automation Forecasts say that industrial automation will make up the majority of the Internet of Things by 2025, and Internet Protocol (IP)-addressable devices are the key enabling force that will get industry there.
    17 July, 2014 | 4 minutes

  • PI North America starts online forums

    Both a PROFIBUS forum and a PROFINET forum are available to the general public to ask questions and seek answers.
    24 June, 2014 | 1 minute

  • Sercos makes webinar recordings available

    The free web-based seminars cover technical topics such as Sercos communication mechanisms, easy machine commissioning and the functionality of redundancy.
    24 June, 2014 | 2 minutes

  • Sercos PlugFest report

    Sercos hosted 25 technology and automation vendors and end users to its 13th PlugFest on May 7 and 8 at the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
    04 June, 2014 | 1 minutes

  • North American EtherCAT Test Center Issues First Conformance Test Certificate

    The first official certificate for a successfully tested EtherCAT device was issued not long after the new North American EtherCAT Test Center was accredited by the ETG.
    30 May, 2014 | 2 minutes

  • Softing Acquires Online Development Inc.

    Founded in 1989, Online Development Inc. (OLDI) designs and manufactures factory automation products to help customers simplify data transfer, control and communications tasks.
    28 May, 2014 | 1 minutes

  • OPC certifies TeslaSCADA for OPC UA

    The OPC Foundation Test Lab in Scottsdale, AZ certified TeslaSCADA, a SCADA solution for smart phones and other Android devices.
    28 May, 2014 | 1 minute

  • Sercos elects board of directors

    Dr. Thomas Bürger, Klaus Weyer, Alexander Verl and Matheus Bulho were elected to the board.
    15 May, 2014 | 1 minutes

  • Sigthsys signs Port as distributor in Germany

    Sightsys provides stacks, libraries, tools and services for CANopen, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT and POWERLINK.
    14 May, 2014 | 1 minutes

  • Sercos to hold Free Technical Webinars

    Sercos scheduled three technical webinars for May and June that will provide interested parties insight into the technology.
    07 May, 2014 | 2 minutes

  • Trebing + Himstedt sells Industrial Communication portfolio to Softing

    The product portfolio that Softing Industrial Automation acquired includes solutions for monitoring industrial networks, incljuding PROFIBUS, PROFINET and Industrial Ethernet.
    30 April, 2014 | 1 minute

  • Sercos publishes brochures

    Brochures include a revised Sercos III brochure and a competency brochure, "The fast route to Sercos."
    23 April, 2014 | 1 minute

  • EtherCAT Publishes Industrial Ethernet System Comparison

    “Industrial Ethernet Technologies: Overview and Comparison” gives valuable insight into today’s most important Industrial Ethernet technologies.
    23 April, 2014 | 1 minute

  • Sercos shows products at Hannover

    Sercos International, supplier of the Sercos automation bus, exhibited Sercos-capable products at Hannover Fair.
    16 April, 2014 | 2 minutes

  • EtherCAT Technology Group updates its Website

    Changes include enhancements to the central search function as well as the “download,” “events,” and “product” sections of the website.
    16 April, 2014 | 2 minutes

  • PLCopen and OPC Foundation define Function Blocks for IEC 61131-3

    With this specification, a controller can exchange complex data structures horizontally with other controllers independently from fieldbus system or vertically with other devices using an OPC-UA server.
    14 April, 2014 | 3 minutes
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