Elmo Motion Control Gains EtherCAT Approval

Gold Servo Drives Now Officially Compliant with EtherCAT

Tel Aviv, Israel - Elmo, a leading provider of comprehensive motion control solutions, announced today that its Gold Servo Drives have passed the rigorous EtherCAT Conformance Tests, making Elmo one of only six companies to do so.

Elmo invests significant resources of time, money and skills into complying with industry protocols like EtherCAT, as well as standards such as Safety and EMC. Elmo believes that compliance is mandatory to guarantee reliable operation of any industrial equipment.

Haim Monhait, Elmo CEO, calls this Elmo’s go-standard policy: “There is a great difference between a product that uses its own interpretation of a communications protocol and one that meets a universally accepted standard that provides product engineers with huge advantages like interoperability!"

Choosing Gold Servo Drives with EtherCAT inside also brings customers:

• Fast “straight forward” integration of the Network.
• Best Network operation in terms of efficiency, speed, bus load, etc.
• High level of cycling, synchronization for optimal multi-axis applications.
• An “Open” network structure for ease of adding, omitting, replacing (including  vendors), upgrading nodes of any compliant product
• Fast, simple integration  with any other compliant product
• Compatibility with future compliant products and solutions

For non-compliant products the “writing’s on the wall”

According to Mr. Monhait, “implementations of ‘non-EtherCAT compliant’ products developed by companies trying to cut corners to save time and money, might degrade significantly the operation of the Motion Control Network, will not  operate properly with  EtherCAT masters, take enormous efforts to make it work, limit the  Network performance in terms of communication speed and efficiency, causing very inefficient bus load, shallow and nondeterministic axes synchronization (if at all) and poor cycle time (if Distributed Clock is implemented at all).”

Customers know that by choosing Elmo’s "Go-Standard Gold Servos" they get a comprehensive solution for today and for the future!

About Elmo
Elmo designs and manufactures “Cutting Edge” Servo drives and network motion controllers that are one-stop solutions for any motion control technology. As a leading global company with over 25 years’ experience, we bring our clients profitability and success. Due to our focus on performance, reliability, durability and safety, competiveness, as well as compliance with a wide range of industry standards and protocols, our solutions have been integrated by world leading machine manufacturers in a wide variety of industries from the industrial to the military. Elmo has one solution for any application! www.elmomc.com  

About EtherCAT
EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) is the fastest Industrial Ethernet solution that provides industry leading performance, flexibility and cost advantages. The functional principle - processing data on the fly - makes EtherCAT the fastest system currently available: cycle times of a few µs are possible. EtherCAT is completely transparent for all Internet technologies and thus supports the vertical integration in heterogeneous networks. www.ethercat.org
    
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