A Beginners Guide to CIP Safety
This may be your first time reading about CIP safety. Welcome, we will talk about how this protocol works as well as its similarities and differences with standard communication protocols. While this will be a technical overview, we will not discuss safety programming specific topics, but instead an overall picture of how CIP safety fits into the evolving industrial automation industry. Over the past decade, with the advancements from hard-wired safety relays to programmable network-monitored safety devices, it is necessary to understand how this technology works and how you can benefit. It is important that everyone from business managers to engineers understand how this technology can be used to save cost as well as increase safety. What is CIP Safety? Is there special hardware for CIP Safety? Does CIP Safety communicate differently to a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)? How is CIP Safety used in Industrial Automation? Are there programming differences when using CIP Safety? So...