EtherCAT

EtherCAT® is a very flexible real-time Industrial Ethernet protocol published as IEC 61158 standard. The data exchange follows the 'processing on the fly' principal which means that data is passed by each slave device with just a minimal delay before it is processed. This makes EtherCAT to the ideal solution for Ethernet based industrial control systems with many distributed I/Os and/or cycle times less than 100 µs.

Development Services

esd has been developing EtherCAT hardware and software solutions since 2008. We offer standard products like EtherCAT Master and EtherCAT Workbench as well as customer specific solutions. As an active member of the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) (www.ethercat.org) we offer engineering services for all aspects of this technology.

Training and Workshops

Since 2008 esd has carried out several workshops on the EtherCAT technology itself or on how to develop most suitable EtherCAT hardware or software products. Training courses may either be held at the esd headquarter in Hannover or at customer site. The type, depth and duration will be defined together with the customer according to the requirements of his project.
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List of all EtherCAT products (in alphabetical order)