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Interoperability Testing at 9th EtherCAT Plug Fest

03/2010 | 35 participants of ETG member companies met at the 9th European EtherCAT Plug Fest hosted by VIPA in Herzogenaurach, Germany. The main goal was again testing interoperability of EtherCAT master and slave device implementations. Overall 9 different EtherCAT master and 18 diverse slave device implementations were tested. Conformity of slave devices was checked by using the updated official Conformance Test Tool (CTT). This tool was enhanced with new features to improve the level of testing coverage as well as better test handling. Several master manufacturers put their focus on Safety over EtherCAT.
Thus the Plug Fests will continue to be a popular and important event for developers to ensure quality of EtherCAT products. Furthermore these well attended acticities serve as basis for device interoperability and guarantee simple configuration of devices from different vendors within heterogenous EtherCAT networks.