Connect your Robot Controller to any network!

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

Two categories of Anybus Gateways for connecting Robot Controllers:

Anybus Communicator - Serial to Fieldbus/Ethernet
Most robot controllers have a serial port for set-up and local communication to a PC. The Anybus-Communicator connects the serial port of the controller and translates the data communication from the serial port and converts data registers in the format required for the selected fieldbus 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 X-gateways - Network to Network Gateways
Anybus X-gateway can connect almost any combination of the popular networks for Fieldbus and Industrial Ethernet. If your robot controller supports one network, let’s say DeviceNet, the X-gateway can be a bridge between DeviceNet and any other industrial protocol. This opens the possibility to connect the robot to virtually any brand of PLC. Read more