SERCOS North America

Two multi-vendor interoperability demos, plus other products from member companies will be presented by Sercos at Industrial Automation North America Show (IANA) in booth E-4448 in the McCormick East Building, Chicago, on 12th-17th September. The systems demonstrate that Sercos has the functionality and performance to operate synchronised motion, I/O and safety while allowing full TCP/IP communication with each device over a single Ethernet ring.

Sercos International celebrates its 25th anniversary as well as 10 years of Sercos III technology. 

Sercos International will present new products plus safety solutions based on CIP Safety on Sercos at the SPS IPC Drives Show in Nuremberg, November 25 - 27, in hall 2, stand 440. A highlight in the Sercos stand is a machine tool demo from Bosch Rexroth.

A key factor in the acceptance of a bus technology is the effort to install field devices and the flexibility of the supported bus topologies. The TopoExtension from CANNON-Automata opens up new possibilities to simplify cabling of Sercos III Automation Bus networks on large and modular machines.

A new brochure entitled “Sercos Product and Manufacturer’s Guide,” is available at www.sercos.com. This 44-page document lists hundreds of SERCOS II and Sercos III products and services from dozens of manufacturers around the world.

At the recent Hannover Fair, the Sercos user organizations announced the development of a Safe Motion Profile for CIP Safety on Sercos. Safety of humans and machines is playing an increasingly vital role in the world of automation – machines and systems are becoming more complex while functional safety requirements are constantly on the rise.

25 Years of SERCOS: With Tradition and Innovation into the Future Santa Rosa Beach, FL: At the recent SPS/IPC/Drives show, the SERCOS interface for digital communications announced its 25th year anniversary. The success of the SERCOS interface is certainly way beyond the wildest dreams of the pioneers of SERCOS 25 years ago. Their results have been accepted across the world and repeatedly characterize innovative automation concepts in thousands of applications in a large number of industries.

Santa Rosa Beach, Florida -- A series of nine free on-demand webinars provide an introduction and technical description for the SERCOS interface standard for motion control and I/O. This series thoroughly explores the latest Ethernet-based SERCOS III advances, including safety, I/O and programming tools, plus practical applications. A comparison of SERCOS III with other Ethernet-based communications busses is included. These webinars are based on presentations at a SERCOS seminar at The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

SERCOS North America announced the availability of the SERCOS III Planning and Installation Guide. This guide is intended to support engineers and electricians during the planning and installation phase of a SERCOS III network in order to guarantee trouble-free operation of machines and systems. Cabling with both copper wire and optical fiber is described for both IP20 and IP65/67 protection classes. The specification is based on international standard IEC 61918 (Installation of communication networks in industrial premises), with an added installation profile for SERCOS III, which will be standardized in IEC 61784-5.

SERCOS North America announces the availability of the SERCOS III Planning and Installation Guide. This guide is intended to support engineers and electricians during the planning and installation phase of a SERCOS III network in order to guarantee trouble-free operation of machines and systems. Cabling with both copper wire and optical fiber is described for both IP20 and IP65/67 protection classes. The specification is based on international standard IEC 61918 (Installation of communication networks in industrial premises), with an added installation profile for SERCOS III, which will be standardized in IEC 61784-5.

The SERCOS vendor organizations have announced the development of an energy conservation profile for the SERCOS III Real-time Ethernet Communications System for controls, drives and decentralized peripherals.

The SERCOS III Slave Conformizer is a new, powerful test tool for slave devices on the SERCOS III Ethernet-based automation bus. It ensures that SERCOS III slave implementations from different manufacturers are compatible and interoperable.

The SERCOS III Slave Conformizer is a new, powerful test tool for slave devices on the SERCOS III Ethernet-based automation bus. It ensures that SERCOS III slave implementations from different manufacturers are compatible and interoperable.

SERCOS International announces that an open source software driver library for the SERCOS lll real-time Ethernet communication system master implementation is now available via the sourceforge.net online-portal. The software can be used by interested users according to the LGPL license, without any license fees and without any usage limitations.

Free one-day seminars on the latest advances for the SERCOS interface for motion, safety and I/O are scheduled on September 14, 2009 in the Minneapolis area and on September 16, 2009 in Atlanta. See www.sercos.com to get more details about the seminar and locations and to register.

SERCOS International has announced it will provide an open source software driver library for the SERCOS lll real-time Ethernet communication system master implementation. SERCOS III thus will be the first high performance real-time protocol which makes driver software available as source code, without any license fees and without any usage limitations.

In ROVEMA’s choice of a modern bus system, the focus was on reduction of start-up costs through the use of cost-effective and highly productive hardware components. Equally important factors were protection of customers’ investments through internationally recognized IEC/EN standards plus lower electromagnetic interference as compared to analog interface technology.

The group of companies actively supporting the SERCOS III real-time Ethernet solution has grown, with Festo AG, one of the largest German automation specialists, adding the international communication standard to its portfolio. Festo manufactures pneumatic and electrical components and systems. As Festo’s first SERCOS customer, Dürr AG will be integrating Festo solutions into the Dürr EcoRPC robot guidance system. Dürr is a leading machine and plant-manufacturing group with around 90% of its business in the automobile industry worldwide. Dürr also supplies the aviation, mechanical engineering, and chemical and pharmaceuticals industries.

SERCOS International today announced that the evaluation by TÜV Rheinland and BGIA St. Augustin of the CIP Safety on SERCOS specification has been completed and it is being released as a function-specific profile (FSP Safety) for Industrial Ethernet-based SERCOS III. The extensions specified by SERCOS International will be included in Edition 2.2. of the CIP Safety specification and will be published in the IEC 61784-3 international safety standard. Thus, users of the SERCOS III real-time Ethernet technology can rely on an established network-spanning safety protocol, CIP Safety of the ODVA (Open DeviceNet Vendors Association).