Beckhoff Automation el6184

The EL6184 offers four interfaces for integrating HART-capable field devices. The EtherCAT Terminal serves as a secondary master and can be seamlessly integrated into existing connections. Maintenance and diagnostic data, for example, can be retrieved from field devices, as is the case in the context of NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA).   HART communication can also be used for the FDT/DTM concept. The TwinCAT FDT Container enables field device DTMs to be directly integrated into TwinCAT Engineering. This means that field device configuration and diagnostics are already available in the development environment. As the FDT concept only supports 32-bit, it cannot be used in the 64-bit TwinCAT XAE Shell.