Modern, intelligent encoders drive smart factories: they deliver precise motion data and communicate reliably across fieldbus and real-time Ethernet networks—powering flexible, autonomous Industry 4.0 production.
Modern, intelligent encoders are a key component of today’s automation and production systems and play an important role in enabling modern industrial manufacturing Regardless of their specific application, encoders in networked automation structures must be able to communicate with other components in a simple, flexible and reliable way. Whether used in machines, plants or robotic systems, they provide precise position, speed or motion data and thus keep the decentralized, autonomous processes of a smart factory running.
To ensure that encoders can be integrated optimally, they require powerful interfaces for connection to modern fieldbus or real-time Ethernet networks. For the communication modules, this means addressing specific challenges such as high transmission speed, synchronization and data security.
Challenges for industrial communication
Time-critical applications
Encoders are essential measurement components in automated systems and must provide position and speed data in real time. To do so, they require extremely short cycle times in the microsecond range, minimal jitter and highly precise bus synchronization. Only under these conditions can motion sequences be controlled accurately and the highest positioning precision be achieved.
Demanding environments
Depending on the application, encoders have to meet a wide range of requirements – for example an extended temperature range, robust IP67 housings for harsh industrial environments, or particularly compact designs for installations with limited space.
Flexibility and variability
Since different industries use different communication protocols, the ability to easily switch protocols increases the application flexibility of an encoder. Modern encoders should, thanks to standardized interfaces, drivers and tools, be as compatible as possible with other control and automation components.
netX通信コントローラの概要高度に統合されたソリューションとして、ネットワーク規格に関係なく、機械および生産システムをお客様のネットワークに柔軟に統合できます。ハードウェア、ソフトウェア、認証、サポートを、1つのソースで提供いたします。
ヒルシャーの組込みモジュールは、フィールドバスまたはリアルタイム・イーサネット・インターフェースをコンパクトなオートメーション・デバイスに統合するための理想的なソリューションです。これにより、ドライブやコントローラなどのフィールドデバイスを自動化システムに、迅速かつ容易に統合できます。
レガシーシステムのレトロフィットからグリーンフィールドネットワークにおけるセンサのシームレスな統合まで、IO-LinkワイヤレスおよびnetFIELD Deviceは、最先端のセンサを備えたインダストリー4.0アプリケーションの標準製品です。
As a market leader in industrial communication, we have decades of experience in connecting devices and systems. Thanks to different interface formats and the multi-protocol capability of our solutions, you are more flexible than ever when integrating encoders into fieldbus and real-time Ethernet networks.
With our broad portfolio of products and services, we cover the full range of software and hardware solutions for a wide variety of requirements. This has enabled us to support numerous projects in the fields of sensor technology and position measurement and to pave the way for many different types of encoders into automated networks.
Typical components we support in this context include, among others:
- Incremental and absolute encoders
- Motor feedback systems
- Hollow-shaft encoders
- Encoders in robot joints
- Measurement systems in handling and positioning axes
Controlling the production of tomorrow with precise encoders
Encoders provide crucial motion and position data for Industry 4.0 processes.
For more complex encoders with a direct bus interface or higher data volumes, our netX communication controllers or the stamp-sized embedded module netRAPID are ideal options.
Building on our many years of expertise and proven netX technology, this allows encoders to be integrated easily and reliably into all common industrial networks
- Easy integration
- Multi-protocol capability
- Faster time-to-market
- Hilscher platform strategy
- Numerous hardware options
- Low development costs
- Long-term availability of products
- Support and additional services throughout the entire lifecycle
Find your solution
Would you like to integrate your devices into industrial networks reliably and future-proof? We can help you do just that—with customized solutions that are perfectly tailored to your requirements.
Whether you want to retrofit existing products, develop new devices, or make entire product families communication-capable, our technologies, expertise, and services will help you achieve your goals efficiently.
Let's work together to make your components fit for industrial networks.
Martin Kober
Account Manager
Mail: mkober@hilscher.com
Mobile: +49 (0) 151 14115494
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