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ETG Newsletter December 2016 | #27 Power and Communication combined. © EtherCAT Technology Group EtherCAT Technology Group Phone: +49 911 54056 20 Website: www.ethercat.org Headquarters: Ostendstr. 196 Fax: +49 911 54056 29 Email: [email protected] D-90482 Nuremberg, Germany For other ETG offices see website All trademarks acknowledged. Page | 1 Dec 2016 | ETG Newsletter #27 Dear Members, 1 MEMBER #4000 The launch of EtherCAT P, the official breakthrough in the automotive industry, ADOPTION RATES further accelerated growth worldwide - what an exciting year for EtherCAT! 2 ORGANISATION EtherCAT P has definitely been the CONTENT CONTENT EVENTS technology highlight: the first version of EDITORIAL EDITORIAL 3 ETHERCAT P the specifications and a detailed 4 JOINT BOOTH REVIEW application note have been published. Everyone is now encouraged to implement 5 TECHNICAL this cost saving combination of power and CONFORMANCE data on the same cable. 6 NEW MEMBERS May all of you have a relaxing holiday season with your loved ones, and a great start into another exciting EtherCAT year 2017! Further Information Merry Christmas and with best regards on behalf of the entire ETG team, www.ethercat.org Martin Rostan, ETG Executive Director Member #4000 honored: KOCH Pac-Systeme GmbH The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) has reached another membership milestone: Recently, the ETG welcomed its 4,000th member into the organization. The official tribute to KOCH Pac-Systeme GmbH, a supplier of advanced packaging machinery equipped with EtherCAT and EtherCAT P, took place in the frame of the SPS IPC MEMBERSHIP Drives 2016 trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany. KOCH Pac-Systeme stands for the highest quality and most efficient custom packaging solutions. For over 40 years, KOCH has impressed customers at home and overseas with the quality of their products and services, their expertise and employees commitment. www.ethercat.org/member4000 Full Press Release (EN | DE | CN | JP) Jürgen Welker, Divisional Director of Control System and Service KOCH PacSysteme GmbH EtherCAT Adoption Rate: Vendors Playing with figures (Vol. 3) EtherCAT is wide spread in different markets as well as ETG has more than 4000 members from 65 countries and countries. Please have a look at the following impressive 6 continents. EtherCAT is implemented on 34 different OS figures (changes since last newsletter): and over 800 products are listed in the official EtherCAT Product Guide. There are 30 different Safety over EtherCAT EtherCAT Drive Vendors + 17 vendors and 47 sensor/actor manufacturers. ETG has 163 organized 40 EtherCAT Plug Fests so far. ETG booths were 196 EtherCAT Master Vendors + 10 shown at 120 tradeshows and EtherCAT roadshows took place in more than 30 different countries and over + 6 108 EtherCAT I/O Vendors 80 cities. Over 500 new members joined the ETG in 2016. EtherCAT Technology Group Phone: +49 911 54056 20 Website: www.ethercat.org Headquarters: Ostendstr. 196 Fax: +49 911 54056 29 Email: [email protected] D-90482 Nuremberg, Germany For other ETG offices see website All trademarks acknowledged. Page | 2 Dec 2016 | ETG Newsletter #27 Membership Development Success of EtherCAT in China increases furthermore continues During the last year the ETG has constantly grown and, The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) reaches another as of December 2016, counts 4.075 members from 65 milestone, breaking the 500 member level in China. countries and 6 continents; ETG continues to be the The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG), headquartered in world’s largest fieldbus organization, and a truly global Nuremberg, Germany was founded in 2003 and has since ORGANISATION ORGANISATION organization as well. grown into a global phenomenon. Today, the ETG maintains Looking back ETG has grown constantly: in 2008, there was regional offices in four other countries. One such country is 1 new member every business day, in 2013 there was 1 new China where Beryl Fan, manager of the local ETG office in member every calendar day and in 2016, ETG exceeded the Beijing, and her team promote EtherCAT technology while number of 500 new members per year. ETG continues to supporting implementation in the Chinese market. In these be the world’s largest fieldbus organization with 558 areas, they have become wildly successful: When the ETG members in America (+72), 1,515 members in Asia (+260), China Office was founded in 2007, there were fewer than 10 and 1,894 members in Europe (+190). member companies. Now, the People’s Republic of China has www.ethercat.org/members broken the 500 member barrier. Press Release (EN | DE | CN) Industrial Ethernet Seminar Series ETG @ LinkedIn, Twitter & worldwide extended YouTube! EVENTS In 2016, ETG successfully continued its seminar series Join our several social media channels to stay up-to-date activities all over the world: China, Japan, India, UAE, and receive the latest news immediately. Qatar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, We’ll invite all of you to follow our official ETG accounts at the New Zealand, Canada, France, South Africa, USA, Canada, following social media channels. You will find actual news Korea, Taiwan and Brazil. from ETG tradeshows or roadshows, announcements of Our EtherCAT seminars receive outstanding feedback: as a upcoming events, impressions and much more there! general rule over 80% of the attendees give an “excellent” www.twitter.com/EtherCAT_Group rating, with another 15% “good” ratings. Participants www.linkedin.com/company/ethercat-technology-group appreciate the rich technical content and the focus on how to www.youtube.com/user/EtherCATGroup benefit from EtherCAT in practice, which helps them to successfully integrate the technology in their next project. Further seminar series / roadshows are planned for 2017! Watch out for the call for sponsors distributed via Email. EtherCAT Technology Group Phone: +49 911 54056 20 Website: www.ethercat.org Headquarters: Ostendstr. 196 Fax: +49 911 54056 29 Email: [email protected] D-90482 Nuremberg, Germany For other ETG offices see website All trademarks acknowledged. Page | 3 Dec 2016 | ETG Newsletter #27 EtherCAT P: Interview with Florian Hammel What is EtherCAT P actually? Which role does ETG play in this game? Florian Hammel: “EtherCAT P is an addition to the EtherCAT “Since our Technical Committee accepted EtherCAT P as technology on the physical layer. P stands for power and addition to EtherCAT last April a lot has happened. All ETHERCAT P ETHERCAT enables the user to transmit the current via two electrically necessary documents and information to start with the isolated 24V supplies on the Ethernet cable. EtherCAT P is implementation of EtherCAT P are available for our members 100% EtherCAT – and adds the power transmission on the very and are expanded, developed, and enhanced by us same cable. Licensing is free of charge.” continuously. When it comes to EtherCAT P our members can In brief: What are the advantages of EtherCAT P and who count on the support of our team – can benefit from it? the same way they are used to with EtherCAT.” “Using EtherCAT P leads to reduced cabling and lower system costs. Potential error sources while connecting devices are www.ethercat.org/EtherCATP reduced, too: M8 connectors specially designed for EtherCAT P make false connections practically impossible. Substantially it Florian Hammel is EtherCAT and depends on the individual use case and the according EtherCAT P specialist, working at the requirements to implement this technology. EtherCAT P is ETG Headquarters and also chairs the especially interesting for machine parts which now can be ETG Technical Working Group Device & supplied with data and power via one single cable.” Network Description. ETG publishes official Toyota Motor Corporation specification documents selects EtherCAT As announced at the Hannover Messe 2016, we've recently Toyota Motor Corporation has selected EtherCAT as its published the draft version of the official EtherCAT P Industrial Ethernet technology of choice and will base Technology specification, together with the extension of its new factories around the world on EtherCAT. all corresponding documents. The global announcement was made by Morihiko Ohkura, In addition, a comprehensive and detailed application note General Manager of the Production Engineering Innovation has been published to further support EtherCAT Division at Toyota Motor Corporation during an EtherCAT implementation on the doing-level. Technology Group (ETG) press briefing at Hannover Messe www.ethercat.org/EtherCATP 2016. The decision to standardize on EtherCAT also factors in the latest addition to the technology, EtherCAT P. Press Release (EN | DE | CN | JP) Press Release (EN | DE | JP | CN) Video: www.youtube.com EtherCAT Slave Implementation Guide includes The ETG.2200 EtherCAT Slave Implementation Guide V3.0 has been enhanced by a separate section addressing EtherCAT P implementation matters. EtherCAT P is an enhancement of the EtherCAT technology and combines EtherCAT and power on the same 4 wires. The new section of the reference for EtherCAT Slave Implementation gives an overview of the EtherCAT P technology, including all related implementation topics and documents. www.ethercat.org/ETG2200 EtherCAT Technology Group Phone: +49 911 54056 20 Website: www.ethercat.org Headquarters: Ostendstr. 196 Fax: +49 911 54056 29 Email: [email protected] D-90482 Nuremberg, Germany For other ETG offices see website All trademarks acknowledged. Page | 4 Dec 2016 | ETG Newsletter #27 ETG Joint Booth at SPS IPC