The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) now counts a total of 77.1 million EtherCAT nodes worldwide, with 18 million added in 2023 alone. DC Velocity Staff ...

Since the beginning, the ETG has brought together a diverse community, including machine builders, suppliers of advanced control technology and end users from wide-ranging industries. DC Velocity ...

For the first time since EtherCAT was introduced 20 years ago, the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) published node figures. Excluding modular I/O devices, ETG counts 59.1 million nodes, with recent ...

EtherCAT’s deterministic, on-the-fly frame processing and flexible topologies make it a strong real-time Ethernet backbone for autonomous mobile robots. How EtherCAT’s “processing on the fly” and ...

MOTION CONTROL: In order to better help machine builders and manufacturers streamline safety systems with simple safety I/O terminals, Beckhoff Automation has introduced TwinSAFE Terminals for the ...

EtherCAT is an open, realtime, and deterministic Ethernet fieldbus standard widely regarded as one of the best industrial networks to date. One reason for its growing use is that it's several orders ...

The addition of plug-in interfaces for Profinet and EtherCAT make it possible to seamlessly integrate the relatively simple variable speed 8400 motec drives into existing, high-performance ...