Automation.com: ODVA publishes new Specifications for CIP Networks
December 10, 2010 - ODVA is publishing new editions of the specifications for ODVA networks, updating the EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet technologies, and the CIP Safety extension to the EtherNet/IP and DeviceNet networks.
The ongoing evolution of these technologies continues to help end users to utilize fully their networks for the growing range of industrial applications. Of the 44 specific enhancements to these technologies, ODVA’s addition of QuickConnect functionality and IP Address Conflict Detection to The EtherNet/IP Specification will be of significant interest to end users.
Since USCAR, the umbrella organization for collaborative research among Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company, announced in 2006 its intention to promote plant floor standardization on EtherNet/IP, EtherNet/IP has become increasingly adopted as an automotive industry standard by both automotive manufacturers and tier one suppliers, in North America and around the world. Initially used to connect robots, HMIs and programmable controllers, today EtherNet/IP is applied in broad range of real time control applications in the automotive industry, such as weld timers, drives and I/O modules. Because of the benefits realized by the automotive industry in these control applications, the industry looked to ODVA and its members for new features to take EtherNet/IP into the robot arm and onto tool changers, where devices must power up and exchange I/O data with the controller with minimal interruption of production.
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