| |March 201919CIOReviewSolution Providers 201910 MOST PROMISINGINDUSTRIAL CONTROL & AUTOMATIONconnected sensors & actuators with two voltages. With EtherCAT P technology, the currents are coupled di-rectly into the wires of the 100 Mbit line, enabling the realization of a highly cost-effective and compact con-nection. All the benefits of EtherCAT, such as freedom in topology design, high speed, optimum bandwidth utilization, telegram processing on-the-fly, highly pre-cise synchronization, extensive diagnostics functional-ity, etc. are retained while integrating the voltages.With TwinCAT Analytics and TwinCAT IoT, Beck-hoff integrates functionality for data analysis and com-munication between controllers and cloud-based services into the familiar TwinCAT development environment. Users enjoy the advantage of developing functions such as lifetime monitoring or runtime analysis for predictive maintenance using the tools they are familiar with.PC-based control specialist Beckhoff has expanded its estab-lished, highly successful TwinCAT product range to in-clude TwinCAT Vision, an integrated Image processing solution. This addition underscores the increasing im-portance of image processing as a quality factor across mechanical engineering, particularly in applications like Industry 4.0, Quality optimization, and track-and-trace. TwinCAT Vision adds image processing to a universal control platform that incorporates PLC, motion control, robotics, high-end measurement technology, IoT and HMI. This simplifies engineering significantly in that it allows camera configuration and programming tasks to be carried out in the familiar PLC environment.With innovation as the key driving force and cus-tomer-first as their motto, Beckhoff strives to provide customers with the right innovative products, via expe-rienced people, so as to enable them to secure the win-ning edge in their business. Beckhoff has addressed the machine level challenges of cycle times and high speed motion control by introducing EtherCAT fieldbus communication protocol where control data transfer efficiencies are enhanced multi-fold using standard Ethernet infrastructure
< Page 9 | Page 11 >