i-Web Puts the Finishing Touches on Modular Web Finishing Systems for Commercial Printing

“All systems go” with the new servo solution
During thorough research of all major servo drive vendors and motion bus technologies, i-Web encountered Beckhoff Automation. “i-Web decided to implement a full system from Beckhoff, primarily because the microsecond-level performance of EtherCAT answered all their challenging networking requirements,” recollected Gilbert Petersen, application engineer, Beckhoff Automation. “Considering speeds that enable communication with up to 100 servo axes in 100 μs, EtherCAT gave i-Web a way out of the throughput and communication problems caused by the previous bus system.” With a theoretical limit of up to 65,535 EtherCAT devices on a single network and flexible topology options, system size and architecture would no longer be problems for i-Web either.