Bronkhorst flowmeters and controllers with CANopen

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Bronkhorst High-Tech has announced the availability of a CANopen fieldbus interface on its flowmeters and controllers for gases and liquids, as well as its digital pressure controllers.

CANopen enables system integrators to work with a high level of customisation and optimisation in any given application, to achieve best possible communication performance. The fieldbus allows for cyclic communication at 1 Mbps with up to 127 nodes in a network segment. Like DeviceNet, the CANopen protocol is based on CAN. For the user, this means that the basic communication features and bus connections are very similar.

With its ‘multi-bus’ concept, Bronkhorst offers a choice of seven fieldbus interface options. The wide range of digital metering and control devices is applied in many different markets: eg, the food and beverage and chemical industries, gas and fluid analysis equipment, glass and tool coating processes, testing fuel cells for the automotive industry and in machinery used to produce electronic chips, LED lights and solar cells.