The Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group will hold eleven conferences in France, Germany, the UK, Italy and Switzerland, starting in September this year. The conferences, which are themed “POWERLINK on tour with Industry Leaders”, are organized by ASCO Numatics, B&R, Cognex and Stäubli. The four companies will demonstrate how the core technologies of automation can be networked to create integrated solutions based on POWERLINK. ASCO Numatics, a subsidiary of Emerson, is a leading manufacturer of solenoid valves and pneumatic components. Together with the motion & control expert B&R, the internationally renowned robot manufacturer Stäubli and Cognex, a world-leading provider of vision systems, the company presents current POWERLINK implementations and highlights the user benefits provided by the integration of central automation technologies in a comprehensive network. Thanks to the speed, bandwidth and flexibility of POWERLINK networks, automation components can be precisely adjusted and extremely fast reaction times can be implemented with little effort. Dates, locations and registration details are available at conferences.ethernet-powerlink.org.
Company backgrround
The Ethernet Powerlink Standardization Group (EPSG) is an independent organization founded in 2003 by leading companies from the drive and automation industry. Its aims are the standardization and further development of POWERLINK, which was first introduced by B&R in 2001. The high-performance real-time communication system is a protocol extension of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, designed to ensure real-time data transfer on the microsecond level. EPSG cooperates with leading standardization organizations, such as CAN in Automation (CiA) and the IEC. Anton Meindl, Business Manager Controls at B&R, is the EPSG’s CEO.
