The SERCOS interface allows drive and control manufacturers to create intelligent digital drives with vastly improved capabilities and flexibility. A single drive can be designed to handle multiple motors, such as permanent magnet servomotors, high horsepower induction servomotors (vector drives) and linear motors, with the configuration set-up parametrically.

Types of products used on SERCOS include:

	AC and DC servo positioning drives
	Spindle and main drives
	Stepper indexer/drives
	Vector drives
	Linear motor drives
	Inverters/variable frequency drives
	Multi-axis motion controllers
	I/O modules
	PLC interfaces
	Numerical controls
	Electrohydraulic valves and positioning systems

The SERCOS interface provides the flexibility of configuring multi-vendor control systems with plug and play "Interoperability". Designers are not limited to products from one manufacturer, but are free to choose the best-in-breed to solve their individual motion and I/O control problems.

The SERCOS interface reduces system cost, eliminates many types of noise problems and helps machine designers get motion control systems up and running quicklyas a result of greater "Interopertability". 

Even more importantly, the SERCOS interface has facilitated great advances in machine productivity. End users have realized incredible timesaving advantages with SERCOS on their machines -- faster delivery, faster installation, faster setup, faster product changeover, and faster production speeds.