Success Story: Quickly Creating Versatile Automation Solutions
The Austrian service provider dieEntwickler Elektronik GmbH specializes in hardware and software development in the industrial environment. The company, based in Bad Zell, focuses on industrial communication systems, optical sensors and industrial network devices. Hilscher's official embedded integration partner supports its customers with 19 employees and its own prototype production in the time-efficient development of individual components. dEE accompanies its customers throughout the entire process - from the specification sheet to the transfer into series production.
netX 90 experience since day one
dEE first came into contact with the netX 90 SoC as part of a project in 2017. It involved the development of a very compact motor controller and the best possible networking with PROFINET and EtherCAT. When evaluating the well-known manufacturers of industrial communication technologies, the netX 90 from Hilscher, which was in the beta stage bak then, stood out in particular. As the world's smallest multiprotocol-capable communication controller - with low energy consumption and low temperature development - it was perfectly suited to the application at the time.
Control cabinet optimization through extensive chip peripherals
With the netX 90, dEE not only implements various projects in record time, but also considerably simplifies network design in industrial environments thanks to its comprehensive on-chip peripherals. Based on their own ideas, dieEntwickler developed a special control cabinet concept as part of a customer project in order to optimize costs, space requirements and susceptibility to errors. In a single device, they combined the gateway functionality of the netX 90's communication processor with all the functions of a conventional control cabinet via the application processor and the chip's internal peripherals. This means that dEE replaces the entire content of the control cabinet - from the head station to various I/O cards, timers, counters and encoder inputs. By consolidating a wide variety of components, the wiring effort is significantly reduced and thus also the susceptibility to errors compared to conventional decentralized series control cabinets.
Innovative light grid based on netX
In addition to various service projects, dEE is also active as a technology leader in the automation sector with its own product. The RAPIDOSCAN is one of the light grids with the highest measuring speed on the market. From parcels and food packaging units to tree trunks, it is used wherever goods are measured during transportation on conveyor belts. To complement this complex high-end version, dieEntwickler have now also developed a significantly cheaper, but only slightly slower version based on the netX 90 - the RAPIDOSCAN 5000.
Conclusion: A high-speed return on investment
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dieEntwickler Elektronik is an Austrian service provider specialized in hardware and software development for various industries. dEE is a competent and versatile integration partner of Hilscher when it comes to implementing netX 90 solutions into customer applications. Learn more and get in touch at their website.
