Product Profile of Sm-applications
A part of Emerson Industrial Automation, Control Techniques has a single minded focus on the design and manufacture of variable speed drives. They manufactures and exports SM-Applications. SM-Applications offers all of the characteristics of the SM-Applications Lite module but with additional communications and high speed I/O. SM-Applications is programmed using SyPTPro system programming tool.
The module has two digital inputs and two digital outputs for high-speed I/O operations such as position capture and actuator firing.
The module features a serial communications port supporting standard protocols such as Modbus for connection to external devices such as Operator Interface panels.
Drive-to-drive communications - SM-Applications option modules include a high speed drive-to-drive network called CTNet, this network is optimized for intelligent drive systems offering flexible peer to peer communications. The bus has the ability to connect to remote I/O, operator panels, Mentor DC drives and PCs using an OPC server.