Fieldbuses
More flexibility, a more efficient network
PROFIsafe is a vendor-neutral functional safety fieldbus which enables safe communication between safe in- and output modules and the safety-CPU SLC284. PROFIsafe allows the user to integrate a large spectrum of 3rd party PROFIsafe sensors and actuators into their safety solution along with safety I/O modules provided by Bachmann.
The Ethernet-based standard PROFINET IO RT is a manufacturer-independent field bus that permits the hierarchical networking of controllers with actuators and sensors, as well as the networking of controllers with each other.
The PROFIBUS configurator enables creation of networks with an M200 controller as master station and multiple slave stations.
EtherCAT is ideally suited for controlling servo-electric drives by an M200 controller. The Bachmann SolutionCenter contains convenient tools for the configuration, commissioning and diagnostics of the network.
Modbus is a very simple, but proven fieldbus system. In principle it only knows the two data types, bool and integer, and a set of queries that are always posed by the modbus master and answered by the modbus slaves.
