Connect your HMI to any network!


Do you need to integrate an existing PLC to a new HMI panel or doesn’t your HMI support the network you have in your automation system? No problem, HMS has the products you need to connect your existing equipment to any of the popular industrial networks.

Three categories of Anybus Gateways for connecting HMI systems:

Anybus X-gateways - Network to Network Gateways
Anybus X-gateways can connect almost any combination of the popular networks for Fieldbus and Industrial Ethernet. If your PLC supports one network, let’s say Profibus, the X-gateway can be a bridge between Profibus and any other industrial protocol. This opens the possibility to connect the PLC to virtually any other PLC with a dissimilar communication protocol. Read more

Anybus Serial Server
Most HMI's have an RS232 port for programming and set up, which connects to a PC or Laptop. With Anybus Serial Server this serial cable can now extended further away from the PLC than the serial cable permits. The Serial Server takes the communication from the serial port of the HMI and “tunnels” the data over Ethernet. On a PC, located anywhere on the local network, or on a wide area network, you can run the same PC program as you did when you connected to the HMI via a serial cable. On this PC, a software (included with the product) redirects the serial communication from the COM port of the PC to the Ethernet port of the same PC. The serial communication is then tunneled via Ethernet. The Serial server is connected to Ethernet and un-package the data from Ethernet back to the serial port of Serial Server, which is connected to the HMI. Read more

Anybus Communicator - Serial to Fieldbus/Ethernet
Most HMIs have a serial port for set-up and local communication to a PC. The Anybus-Communicator connects the serial port of the HMI and translates the data communication from the serial port and converts data registers in the format required for the selected Fieldbus/Ethernet networks.

The serial communication and the data mapping is user configurable by using the software Anybus Config Tool. Read more

Anybus Communicator resources

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Anybus-OPC Server
The Anybus OPC server was developed in co-operation with MatrikonOPC Inc, one of the leading suppliers of OPC technology on the world market. Matrikon made a brandlabelling for HMS of their basic OPC server, and they also developed the hardware access driver using HMS Anybus-S API hardware drivers. This means that the OPC server uses the Anybus-S Transport Provider API to communicate with the Anybus hardware. Read more