CIP Motion Technology
What is CIP motion?
Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) is an ODVA (Open DeviceNet Vendors Association) supported industrial protocol that enhances the manufacturing automation applications like control, safety, synchronisation, configuration and information. It is basically a mechanism extensively used for sharing and organizing data in industrial equipment.
How does it benefit automation system?
It is used in Ethernet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet, ControlNet protocol. So it gives a wide bandwidth of options for operation. Moreover, it is quite simple as compared to PROFIBUS and little more complex than MODBUS. With this, the programmers can access more I/O points, more axis and motion control. For instance, Ethernet/IP with CIP motion would allow almost 100 axes to be coordinated with a network update rate of 1ms to all axes.
CIP Device Types:
As John S Rinaldi suggests, this classification can be done as per the overall functionality of the CIP devices:
Messaging Server: Used to move the ASCII data intermittently to a barcode of RFID system
I/O Server: Used in simple I/O applications like I/O muxes, photo-eye sensors and valves
Messaging Client: Used to pull ASCII data from barcode or RFID applications
I/O Scanner: Offer everything in the I/O Server but adds the capabilities to serve as originators of output data and targets for devices that want to send them output data.
References:
- -, -. “Common Industrial Protocol.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 8 Feb. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Industrial_Protocol.
- Rinaldi, John S. “What Is CIP?” Real Time Automation, Inc., 28 Nov. 2018, www.rtautomation.com/rtas-blog/what-is-cip/.
- Gerke, Grant. “CIP Motion Capability Added to Servo Drive.” Automation World, 4 Aug. 2014, www.automationworld.com/products/motion/blog/13306319/cip-motion-capability-added-to-servo-drive.