sercos Issue 01/2014 the automation bus magazine An existential Heinz Gall, Global Business Field Manager at TÜV Rheinland in conversation with Sercos International issue Cost efficient Optimized Transparent Cost reduction by one third, Reduction of machine down Ethernet communication reduction of energy requirements times while increasing with Sercos and Hilscher's by about 25 percent transmission rates in parallel netSWITCH sercos sercos Editorial News Events Technology Application Cover Story New Products Review & Outlook Editorial News Events Technology Application Cover Story New Products Review & Outlook Safety for Higher Economic Contents Efficiency and Flexibility News The requirements of operational safety for machinery 03 Sercos Webinar Series Available as Download are rising continuously. Automation solutions must not only protect people, machines and the en- 04 New Brochures for Users and Vendors Available vironment in a reliable manner but at the same time Webinar Recordings must fulfill high standards of economic efficiency and 05 Events flexibility. “Moving Forward with Tradition and Innovation” Technology “Sercos in Practice: Easy, Fast, Flexible” Bus systems, which not only transmit process data but also safety-relevant data, play an important role 06 Ethernet Connectivity with Sercos “Sercos in Practice: Efficient, Reliable and Economic” here. Enormous amounts are saved in installation and engineering, safe periphery components can be com- 08 Multi Vendor Solution: Plastic Electronics “CIP Safety on Sercos & EtherNet/IP” bined with standard components, and safe data can be used for diagnostic purposes at the standard level 10 Flexible Topologies with Sercos III “Benefits of a Common Sercos III and EtherNet/IP Infrastructure” as well. Application However, these advantages are countered by higher 12 Sercos Replaces Signalbus complexity both for device manufacturers and for engineers. In this connection, it does not help that 14 Rexroth Helps Streamline New Generation for most bus systems a specific safety protocol must be implemented. This often restricts the diversity of of Servo-Driven Case Packers devices even further. For this reason, engineers often tackle the element of safety technology as in the Cover Story Sercos Webinar Series past, especially in the case of simple machines or in 18 An Existential Issue machines for which no integrated safety technology is demanded by the end user. 20 Application Coverage for CIP Safety Available as Download Expanded to Include Safe Motion Therefore, it is a tremendous advantage for users and manufacturers that CIP Safety can be used as 22 Safety in Automation – an Introduction Sercos International presented a free German and English-language webinar series an open, uniform and standardized safety protocol for “Moving forward with tradition & innovation” in the first quarter of 2014. various bus systems. Thus, with identical stack soft- 24 CIP Safety on Sercos Conformance ware and a uniform test system, implementations can Test Tool Available be developed and certified for Sercos, EtherNet/IP and DeviceNet. This reduces the development costs Sercos IPS Conformizer Now Available he series was hosted by Peter Lutz, Managing Di- The webinar series concluded with the topic “Sercos in and investment risks to a minimum. practice: Efficient, reliable and economical”, explaining why New Products rector of Sercos International. In the first 30-minute presentation, he showed why Sercos® is employed the automation bus enables such networking in machine We hope you find reading this magazine valuable. 26 Automata GmbH & Co. KG T Innovasic, Inc. with great success in a wide variety of machine and plant and plant construction and how Sercos makes optimal use construction sectors, and how the Sercos technology con- of the available bandwidth of Fast Ethernet. Additionally, 27 KW-Software GmbH tinuously adapts to changing requirements of users and Lutz explained features such as hot plugging, ring redun- LEONI Special Cables GmbH manufacturers. dancy and synchronization. 28 Smitec S.p.A. In the second part of the series, Lutz showed how easily, The webinar recordings can be requested via email quickly, and flexibly peripheral components of a machine ([email protected]). Recordings of webinars that took place 29 RIE-TECH GmbH or plant can be connected using the Sercos automation at the end of 2013, including,“CIP Safety on Sercos & bus. He explained why Sercos is one of the fastest real- EtherNet/IP“ and/or “Benefits of a common Sercos III and Review & Outlook time Ethernet protocols, which network topologies can EtherNet/IP infrastructure” can also be requested via email. 30 13th PlugFest in Stuttgart, Germany be implemented, and how the commissioning of a Sercos SPS IPC Drives in Parma, Italy network takes place. The possibility of connecting safety- Sercos Community is on the Increase oriented peripheral equipment via Sercos without addition- The New Sercos Website al hardware was also discussed. The title of this webinar was “Sercos in practice: Easy, fast, flexible”. Peter Lutz 31 Sercos International Attracted Visitors due Managing Director to Many Innovations at the SPS IPC Drives Sercos International e.V. Show in Nuremberg 02 03 sercos EVENTS 2O14 sercos Editorial News Events Technology Application Cover Story New Products Review & Outlook Editorial News Termine Technologie Applikation Titelthema Neue Produkte Rückblick & Vorschau April July Hanover Fair 2O14, Industrial Open Network hall 9, booth F8O (ION) Roadshow O4/O7 -O4/11/2O14 O7/O2/2O14 & O7/O4/2O14 Hanover - Germany Nagoya & Tokyo – Japan May September 13th PlugFest Industrial Automation Show North America O5/O7 - O5/O8/2O14 O9/O8 - O9/13/2O14 Stuttgart - Germany Chicago – USA New Brochures for Users Industrial Automation October and Vendors Available BEIJING 2O14 14th PlugFest A revised Sercos® III brochure and a new competency brochure, "The fast route to Sercos“, are available just in time for the Hanover Fair. O5/O7 - O5/O9/2O14 1O/15 - 1O/16/2O14 Beijing – China Stuttgart - Germany he Sercos brochure is primarily targeted at those from the planning phase up to the implementation of a interested in and using the Sercos technology. Sercos interface. A vendor overview shows companies, TIt explains basic concepts, the benefits of using that offer services and components related to Sercos. Their Ethernet and the way Sercos functions by discussing trans- portfolios encompass chips, ASICS, FPGA‘s, evaluation kits, November mission principles, protocol structures and topologies. software, gateways, certification support and much more. SPS IPC Drives Italia 2O14 Cross communication, synchronization, ring redundancy and hot plugging features are explained, as well as func- Both brochures can be downloaded in the download sec- O5/2O - O5/22/2O14 Industrial Automation Show tion-specific profiles, safety and the benefits of using a tion of www.sercos.de/en or be requested via email common Sercos III and Ethernet/IP infrastructure. ([email protected]). Parma – Italy 11/O4 - 11/O8/2O14 “The fast route to Sercos“ helps interested parties and us- Shanghai – China ers to get started. The brochure explains the various steps swissTmeeting, O5/23/2O14 SPS IPC Drives 2O14 Windisch – Switzerland 11/25 - 11/27/2O14 Nuremberg - Germany 04 03 sercos sercos Editorial News Events Technology Application Cover Story New Products Review & Outlook Editorial News Events Technology Application Cover Story New Products Review & Outlook of the unified communication channel (UCC) configured for it Sercos: Do special functions such as IP Switch Support in accordance with the store & forward principle. Non-Sercos need to be supported in the Sercos protocol for netSWITCH Ethernet telegrams that come from the UCC are also sent to to be used? the Ethernet devices at the Ethernet port of the netSWITCH. Torsten Knörzer: Not necessarily. However, if this func- Sercos: What is the advantage for the user of using the tion is available in the Sercos master, the master sends the Hilscher netSWITCH? parameters of the UCC as well during start-up.The netSWITCH detects the Torsten Knörzer: One advantage parameters and then automatically is surely that there is no data loss configures the time slot of the UCC. when there is an increase in data volume from Ethernet telegrams Sercos: What if the Sercos master on the part of the Ethernet de- does not support this function? vices.The synchronicity of the Sercos network is not influenced Torsten Knörzer: In that case, the by the synchronous integration netSWITCH offers the opportunity - by of the Ethernet telegrams. The means of an integrated web browser - ring topology (required in the case of redundant networks) to configure the time slot for the UCC manually and save it can remain intact and the integration and extraction of the on the device in a remanent manner. Ethernet telegrams takes place without interference to Sercos communication. Sercos: Thank you for the interview! Ethernet Connectivity with Sercos Sercos International talks to Torsten Knörzer, Sales Engineer at Hilscher GmbH, on the topic of Ethernet transparency and what contribution the Hilscher netSWITCH along with the Sercos automation bus can make to it. COMPETENCE IN COMMUNICATION ercos: What opportunities does the Sercos® tech- Sercos: Is disconnecting the Sercos ring absolutely neces- nology offer to communicate directly with Ethernet sary? Once integrated – All (net)works* Sdevices? Torsten Knörzer: Without the use of additional hardware Future