The FDT standard is enhanced for Factory Automation

The FDT Group announces that it has publically released the sercos III annex which brings full support of the sercos III standard into the FDT standard. Sercos III is a universal, Ethernet based real-time digital communications interface for demanding deterministic factory automation appli-cations.

“The addition of sercos III to the FDT standard underscores our commitment to the factory au-tomation marketplace. Sercos has long been associated with solving complex, high speed, real time control applications typical of the factory automation marketplace – we are pleased to add this robust capability to the FDT standard.” remarks Glenn Schulz, Managing Director of the FDT Group.

The sercos III annex for FDT covers online services based on the sercos service channel com-munications and allows easy and scalable device access function inherent in the FDT standard. It supports the sercos configuration interface (SCI) and also allows offline configuration of sercos networks including the provisioning of process information channels for engineering systems.

Bosch Rexroth and Hilscher have announced the availability of generic device and communica-tion DTM’s to support sercos III products within FDT frame applications.