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Brisk Interest
in the 8th Plug Festival
The 8th annual plug fest for sercos III implementations took
place on October 29th at the Institute for Control Engineering
of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW) at the
University of Stuttgart. Numerous companies took the opportunity
to test their latest sercos developments and prototypes
for interoperability with devices from other manufacturers.
A well-balanced mix of master and slave devices made it
possible to test a number of different scenarios. Participants
not only thoroughly tested various interactions between
netX and FPGA-based hardware platforms, but also the
compatibility of various communication functions (hotplugging,
ring redundancy) and different function profiles
(FSP Drive and FSP IO). Many slave manufacturers also took
the opportunity to run a test with the manufacturer-independent
reference system – the sercos Slave Conformizer – in
order to prepare for upcoming certification of their devices.
The 9th plug fest is planned for May 23/24, 2012.
Global Presence of sercos
Continues to Grow
sercos international has responded to a dramatic increase
in interest in the sercos automation bus by enhancing its
international presence. Interest in high-performance bus systems
is especially high in China. After the Hannover Messe,
sercos international (SI) participated in the FA/PA in Beijing,
China, the AutomationExpo in Chennai, India, the SPS Italia
in Parma, Italy, the Automation 2011 in Mumbai, India, the
Industrial Automation Show in Shanghai, China, the System
Control Fair in Tokyo, Japan and the SPS/IPC/DRIVES in
Nuremberg, Germany. Presentations and user and developer
seminars were held in parallel to all of these exhibitions.
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