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New Products - February 2004Global support for FirewireThe European 1394automation group is joining the 1394 Trade Association, forming a worldwide group to promote "the only standard where motion, vision and I/O are brought together in one cable."According to Twan Smetsers, Marketing of Nyquist Industrial Control: "We expect that the 1394automation group will be part of the 1394 Trade Association in the first quarter of next year. By combining the best of both worlds, this clearly leads to 'one cable, one worldwide standard'. IEEE1394 will gain an even stronger position in the market." According to James Snider, Executive Director of the 1394 Trade Association: "Motion control would be the next area that the trade association is focussing on. The European group is strongly involved in motion control. So I am very glad that by joining forces, we can improve the IEEE1394 standard for themotion control area in a short time." IEEE1394 is an international, open, PC-based network standard that is rapidly being adopted by industry. IEEE1394 was originally developed by Apple Computer for the consumer market, to send video images smoothly across a network. On the initiative of Nyquist Industrial Control and Wago Kontakttechnik, a number of European companies and organisations came together in the 1394automation group. This group was launched in April 2002 during the Hannover Messe Industrie in Hanover, Germany, bringing together the disciplines of drives, motion, vision and I/O. One of the aims of the group is to define a solution that will enable different controllers to communicate on the same IEEE1394 bus. "To implement this standard it is important to agree on a set of specifications," says Eric Hezemans, Chairman of the Executive Board of 1394automation and CEO of Nyquist Industrial Control." Besides Nyquist and Wago, current participants in 1394automation include Basler Vision Components, Eurotherm Antriebstechnik, Fraunhofer Institute, Institut fur Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme, Lust Antriebstechnik, Maxon Motor and Stober Antriebstechnik. Eight years before the establishment of the European 1394automation group, the 1394 Trade Association was founded.
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