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A division of Parker Hannifin Corporation’s Automation Group, Electromechanical Automation is a pioneer, developer and manufacturer of full-spectrum computer-based motion controllers, servo/step motor drives, servo motors, HMI, positioning systems, aluminum structural systems, gearheads and gear motors. Electromechanical Automation products are sold via independent authorized Automation Technology Centers - a group of nearly 100 professional, highly trained organizations with more than 135 points-of-presence throughout the world - or directly from Electromechanical Automation by logging onto our website. Parker's support network will provide best in class customer service and assist in selecting one of many standard products and solutions. If our catalog products don't meet the needs, we partner engineer to engineer with you to design optimized solutions which meet the application demands. We provide solutions for many demanding applications. Contact us now to learn more.

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Parker - I31 EtherCAT fieldbus option

POSTED 08/16/2011

The high-performance motion-bus network is now installed in Compax3 servo drives

Parker I31 EtherCAT Fieldbus OptionParker’s Electromechanical Automation Division, a leading supplier of motion control technology, is pleased to announce the release of its EtherCAT fieldbus option.

EtherCAT is an open, real-time, high-speed motion-bus network that operates over fast Ethernet at 100 Mbit. It is a fast-growing industrial network and, similar to other Ethernet-based motion-bus networks, it offers speeds that are faster than DeviceNet, ModbusTCP and Profibus.

Parker’s Compax3 servo drives utilize EtherCAT as a controlled node and implement the standard CAN over EtherCAT DS402 object library. This standardized implementation improves the ability to work directly with third-party EtherCAT managing nodes on the market.

The Compax3 with EtherCAT has already been successfully employed in tube bending, pharmaceutical automation, life science and packaging applications.

About Parker Electromechanical Automation
A division of Parker Hannifin Corporation's Automation Group since 1987, Electromechanical Automation is a pioneer, developer and manufacturer of full-spectrum computer-based motion controllers, servo/step motor drives, servo motors and human-machine interfaces, positioning systems, gearheads and gear motors.  These products automate the manufacturing of a significant fraction of the world’s goods and services.  Electromechanical Automation products are sold via independent authorized Automation Technology Centers—a group of nearly 100 professional, highly trained organizations with more than 135 points-of-presence throughout the world.

About Parker Hannifin
With annual sales exceeding $10 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. The company employs more than 57,000 people in 43 countries around the world. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 50 consecutive years, ranking it among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index.