Sercos benefits from the growing interest in the Industrial Automation North America (IANA) Show
The user organization showed for the first time a multi-vendor interoperability demo which was well received by visitors.
The demo showed various automation products connected using the Sercos automation bus including the Bosch Rexroth XLC (eXtended Logic Control) PLC, IndraDrive Cs servodrive, various IO devices (Inline, S20, S67 and VAM panel), SafeLogic compact safety control, and HNC100®-3X hydraulic axis controller. Additional Sercos devices included an Aventics pneumatic valve system, Cannon Automata SSI Gateway for Encoders, Feller Engineering's multi-channel temperature controller, Festo's pneumatic valve terminal, a halstrup-walcher positioning system, RiceLake's Laumas Load Cell Transmitter and a TR-Electronics programmable absolute encoder.
Cannon Automata presented a demo of the new A2 PC based-Intel Atom dual core equipped Programmable Automation Controller. The A2-PAC device family combines the advantages of a PC-based control with the typical features of PLCs and motion controllers.
Also on display was Bihl+Wiedemann’s AS-i 3.0 Sercos Gateway with integrated safety monitor for CIP Safety on Sercos, which can be used to transmit data from safety input slaves and to safely control safety output slaves via CIP Safety.
The presentation on “Trends in Industrial Communications for the Factory of the Future" by Peter Lutz, Managing Director of Sercos International, completed the user organization's presence at IANA.