customers that the Phoenix Contact products installed are built
to last forever. Whether through the authentic, trusting
partnerships we create with our customers or by making the
highest quality products in the market, we stand with our
customers to ensure they can deliver upon their promises.
Robert S. Grzib, marketing manager at CDM Electronics (www.
cdmelectronics.com), From an interconnect distribution
standpoint, we maintain focus on our authorized
premier quality lines. We only sell interconnect products and
equipment that we feel confident using ourselves for our
engineered cable assembly solutions (ECAS). From an ECAS
perspective, CDM has partnered with the most demanding
military, aerospace, industrial and commercial contractors and
manufacturers to plan and assemble all levels of end product
in an ISO and AS9100 quality environment. And, as a company,
CDM has the staff talent and experience needed to address all
levels of customer requirements—from basic but crucial
interconnects to engineered solutions.
What new technologies are driving your product
development and why?Kevin Barker, president at Beckhoff Automation (www.beckhoff.
com), Beckhoff is looking ahead by developing new
technologies to meet the needs of engineers, both
today and in the future. It’s often said that 90% of all data that
exists in the world today was created in the past two years—
this is according to a statistic from IBM. How do companies
take advantage of all the information they now have at their
fingertips? The ability to create, transfer, control, visualize,
analyze and store information via open global standards is a
key driver for us. Data is useless without those capabilities, and
the Beckhoff product architecture offers real advantages.
One recent technology introduction that significantly boosts
data transmission is EtherCAT G, which will provide gigabit com-
munication, and the next step in the initiative, EtherCAT G10, will
take data throughput further with 10-Gbit/s performance. This
will provide the communication bandwidth needed for the most
extreme applications with highly complex vision, motion control
and high-end measurement requirements. Most importantly,
this evolution will not replace the current 100-Mbit/s EtherCAT
standard or require any re-engineering or reconfiguration. The
unique EtherCAT G branch controller model will allow traditional
EtherCAT all the way up to EtherCAT G10 to work on one hetero-
geneous network. This means 100-Mbit/s EtherCAT will remain
totally stable on version 1.0, just as it has been since 2003.
Another key technology driver for us is looking at how
we can combine our traditional areas of expertise—which
include machine control, motion control, industrial network-
ing, software development and manufacturing—to deliver
more value. By leveraging our expertise, we can deliver highly
flexible electromechanical solutions that require a fraction of
the customer’s resources to deploy. This is an exciting area for
Beckhoff, and we look forward to unveiling more products in
this area in the near future.Fran Bridges, vice president of engineering at Magline (www.
magliner.com), Software-based, electric-powered drive
and lifting components are driving our product
development. These components provide more control, reduce
fatigue and improve overall productivity.Holger Zeltwanger, managing director at CAN in Automation
(www.can-cia.org), CAN FD, the new CAN data link layer
supporting bit rates higher than 1 Mbit/s andmachine input
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