Rockwell Automation can now demonstrate how manufacturers can use standard Ethernet and the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) networking standards for motion control and other demanding applications. The CIP protocol is the upper-layer protocol for DeviceNet, ControlNet and EtherNet/IP networks. With CIP Motion, the advantages of CIP and Ethernet now extend to multi-axis coordinated motion control applications, further improving machine synchronisation and information flow, reducing installation costs and increasing productivity.
CIP Motion is a strategic initiative from the Open DeviceNet Vendor Association (ODVA) that is creating a distributed motion control solution using only EtherNet/IP, and includes controller-to-controller and controller-to-drive connectivity. This approach will provide high performance axis-to-axis synchronisation with clock synchronisation jitter of +/-100 nanoseconds, a flat network architecture using standard unmodified Ethernet and a common configuration and programming environment.