Embedded PC CX8000: PC Control redefines small controllers
The CX8000 Embedded PC series contains a 32 bit controller with integrated fieldbus slave and can be applied universally in PLC applications. The CX8000 is currently the “smallest” PC-based controller from Beckhoff – as a result, PC Control is extending its reach into the lower categories of control. Either Bus Terminal (K-bus) or EtherCAT Terminal (E-bus) I/O systems can be directly mounted alongside the CX8000 CPU. ...
AX5000: high-performance EtherCAT drives up to 170 A
The AX5000 Servo Drive series from Beckhoff is being expanded to include drives with higher rated currents. A total of six new Servo Drives enhance the universally designed drive family for highly dynamic positioning tasks. With this development, Beckhoff is responding to the increasing demand for drives with even greater power, in order to replace pneumatic or hydraulic drives with more maintenance-friendly electrical axes, or to cope with the highest dynamism demands, even at high loads. ...
Building Automation: more efficient manual operation using Bus Terminals
Beckhoff is extending its modular I/O components for industrial and building automation via Bus Terminals for convenient manual operation. The terminals, with switches or potentiometers, function as operating devices for changing process data independently of the controller. As a result of integrating these manual operating components into a Bus Terminal format, space requirements inside control cabinets can be reduced; additional switches and their wiring can be eliminated. ...
Building Automation: Combining media and building services
Crestron is a manufacturer of AV control systems and provides e.g. components for audio and video technology. Using the TwinCAT Crestron Server supplement, building services from Beckhoff and media technology from Crestron can be combined in a simple way. ...