With the continuous development of new projects within the vast landscape that is industrial automation, flexibility and adaptability are key qualities for customer satisfaction. To meet these requirements, Ever Elettronica’s R&D department has developed a new type of multiprotocol drives.
Drives with this feature can be configured to communicate with a wide range of major fieldbuses on the market without any hardware modification but with a simple software setup. Fieldbuses already available for interfacing on a Multiprotocol device include ProfiNET, EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP and PowerLink.
Ever Elettronica has developed multiprotocol drives for both brushless and stepper motors – in the SN4D, SW5D, AW5D series – in which, by downloading an ad hoc firmware, it is possible to change the communication protocol according to the need of one’s application.
Multiprotocol drives ensure fast and flexible application and user-friendly configuration provided on the software, without the need for additional servers or special hardware.