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Key Features

  • Brings EtherCAT support to Automation1 drive-based controllers
  • Brings MODBUS support to Automation1 PC-based controllers
  • Enables expansion of your control architecture
  • Allows for integrating Automation1 into larger automation systems
  • Enables expansion of I/O on a machine controlled by Automation1

Automation1

Automation1 Industrial Ethernet support is part of the user-friendly Automation1 motion control platform, which includes the following:

Modbus TCP/IP

Modbus TCP/IP is an extension of the Modbus family of vendor-neutral communication protocols used for supervision and control of automation equipment. Specifically, it provides a network and transport layer in an Internet environment over the TCP/IP protocols for the Modbus application layer. The most common use of the protocol is for communication with Ethernet-based PLCs, I/O modules and other simple field buses or I/O networks. The Modbus TCP/IP protocol is an automation standard.

EtherCAT

EtherCAT stands for Ethernet for Control Automation Technology. It is a real-time communication protocol over standard Ethernet hardware / networks. In EtherCAT, the network topology has one central controller that manages the communication of up to N (65,535) other devices. EtherCAT devices transfer data “on the fly,” enabling high speed, high throughput communication over the Ethernet physical layer.

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