SERCOS International (SI)
Announces Adoption of Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) Safety™
on SERCOSSERCOS International
(
SI) and
ODVA announced that SI will adopt
Common Industrial
Protocol (
CIP) Safety™ as its functional
Safety Protocol for
SERCOS.
ODVA, for its part,
will extend The
CIP Safety Specification to include
Safety profiles for
SERCOS devices.
SI, for its part, will
develop the
SERCOS Network adaptation to utilize
CIP Safety.
SI and
ODVA, jointly, will develop and establish conformance testing for devices implementing
CIP Safety on
SERCOS to help ensure compliance
with the collective body of specifications and enable
SERCOS "Interoperability" of these devices in multi-vendor Systems.
This action is consistent with the desires of
Industry to have a single, Worldwide Network Protocol for
Safety Applications.
Further, the joint support of
Common Industrial Protocol (
CIP) Safety
by
ODVA and
SERCOS International (
SI)
will facilitate technical and market synergies for users and vendors of functional
Safety
Networks.
"
SERCOS Interface is the World-leading
Digital Drive Interface with more than 20 years history and worldwide acceptance in all
SERVO-driven Motion Applications,"
states Peter Lutz, managing director of
SERCOS International (
SI). "Using
Common Industrial Protocol (
CIP) Safety as the functional
Safety protocol on
SERCOS III,
SI's new generation
Industrial Ethernet Network, opens up completely new possibilities and leads to a greater versatility for Applications with
Safety requirements. This provides significant benefits not only to the
SERCOS
users and vendors but for the worldwide
Safety community."
"
CIP
Safety stands alone as the world's only media-independent, truly open Network
Protocol for functional
Safety," states Katherine Voss, executive director of
ODVA. "Adoption of
CIP Safety by
SERCOS
International (SI) will provide users of
SERCOS Technology with a functional
Safety
Solution that meets industry's growing requirement for seamless Integration of
Safety
Networks with the overall Network architecture."
The responsible technical working group within
SERCOS
International (SI) has already started to extend and adapt its initial "
SERCOS Safety"
concept -- published and approved by TÜV Rheinland in November 2005 -- to CIP
Safety.
SI and
ODVA expect that the enhancements to their respective specifications to encompass the adaptation of
SERCOS to
CIP Safety was published during 2007.
The first device implementations were released the end of 2007.
