Using Ethernet motion control: the key to achieving a new level of performance and flexibility
May 23, 2011
The new demands of the market indicate that the companies whose processes and infrastructures have greater agility and flexibility are in a better position to satisfy the usual demands and in fast change of the market.
Thanks to the new improvements in products and to the launching of new products, Rockwell Automation now can offer the following important evolution for the applications of control of movement: a solution of control of movement totally integrated that executes with the same protocol of communications of high level that use other systems of primary automation.
Control movement integrated in EtherNet/IP of Rockwell Automation uses the common industrial Protocol (CIP) control technologies of motion and CIP Sync of Open Device Vendors Association (ODVA). The addition of capabilities of motion by means of EtherNet/IP control significantly increases the flexibility and capabilities of this Automation Protocol immensely popular. The leading industrial network in the world, Ethernet is currently used in more than 850 250 companies product lines and, in total, they have been sold and they are in use more than two million nodes in industrial applications.