Motion Bus and Fieldbuses

Depending on the fieldbus used in your project (EtherCATClosed***EtherCAT is an open, high-performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs, Profinet, etc.), you have to make use of the configuration tools discussed below. The AKD PDMM or PCMM can be connected to multiple EthernetClosedEthernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs) devices simultaneously by connecting a switch to the X32 port on the top of the device.

EtherCAT

See the Beckhoff Web site for EtherCAT XMLClosed"Extensible Markup Language " XML is a general-purpose markup language. It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own tags Device Description.

Ethernet/IP

The KAS RuntimeClosedIn computer science, runtime (or run-time) describes the operation of a computer program, the duration of its execution, from beginning to termination (compare compile time). Within KAS, runtime also refers to the virtual machine that manage the program written in a computer language while it is running includes a fully integrated Ethernet/IP Adapter driver and Scanner driver for exchanging data with Ethernet/IP tag-based devices such as PLCs. Ethernet/IP Adapter (server), Scanner (client), Tag Client, and FlexIO/Point IO configurations are supported. The mapping of PLC variables to Profinet is as simple as a drag and drop.

Modbus & TCP/IP

Profinet

This fieldbus is ProfibusClosed"Process Field Bus" Profibus is the most popular type of fieldbus (see Fieldbus entry in the glossary) used worldwide over ethernet. We define one controller and have 1 or more devices.