Sercos innovations at SPS IPC Drives show

February 2014 News

Sercos International, supplier of the Sercos automation bus, displayed 12 demo points from various manufacturing companies, as well as exhibits from more than 20 companies at the joint stand at the SPS IPC Drives show in Nuremberg. In addition, a multi-vendor Plastic Electronics demo was a crowd-pleaser.

The compact high-performance, low-voltage LVD Sercos III servo drive from Servotronix, a weight transmitter from Laumas and the fido5000 REM switch from Innovasic, were present for the first time. Phoenix Contact also displayed a new media converter and Automata presented the A2-PAC programmable automation controller. Different safety solutions, such as SafeLogic and SafeLogic compact from Bosch Rexroth, as well as the AS-i gateway with CIP Safety on Sercos from Bihl+Wiedemann, added to the presentation of new products.

One of the highlights was the new CIP Safety on Sercos conformity inspection system, which is now available for implementing conformity tests for CIP Safety on Sercos devices. This can be used for originator as well as for target implementations, regardless of whether the safety functionality is a component of a Sercos master or slave device.

The hourly moderated forum, Sercos in Practice, proved particularly popular. Different topics were discussed on the basis of the multi-vendor Plastic Electronics demo from Bosch Rexroth, in co-operation with Sercos International, Bihl+Wiedemann, Hilscher and Vision & Control. Sercos-based automation systems, Safety & AS Interface, Vision & Motion, as well as Ethernet transparency were also discussed.

For more information contact Ilona Arnold, Sercos International, +49 7162 946895, [email protected], www.sercos.de

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