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Everything on a single platform: The integrated Beckhoff approach for the control of wind turbines

Everything on a single platform: The integrated Beckhoff approach for the control of wind turbines

The winds of openness blow in all directions

Interview with Dirk Kordtomeikel, Business Manager Wind Energy

Interview with Dirk Kordtomeikel: The winds of openness blow in all directions
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  • Scientific Automation in wind turbines

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  • Real-time networks for wind farms feature a cycle time of less than 1 ms

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Latest contents | cms

  • CMS: Filtering out background noise

    It has taken quite some time for CMS to arrive in the wind energy sector. Meanwhile there are many companies that use Condition Monitoring systems and develop new CMS technologies.

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  • DMT, Germany: Reducing hardware to significant lower investment costs

    The advanced technology from DMT is often used in cases where wind turbines must turn 24 hours a day or where motors, gear units and pumps must operate at peak performance.

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  • Ortosense, Denmark: Condition Monitoring of wind turbines based on vibration analysis

    Easy TurbineAnalyzer is a new measuring and analysis technique developed by the Danish company Ortosense in collaboration with Beckhoff.

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Latest contents | wind farm networking

  • Fraunhofer-IWES, Germany: Well prepared wind turbines on land or at sea!

    Advanced wind farm control systems support the stable operation of the electrical grid. Hardware-in-the-loop tests are essential for fast and cost-effective commissioning of controllers in the field or at sea in the case of off-shore wind farms.

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  • Areva Wind GmbH, Germany: Full-load test stand ensures smooth commissioning of offshore wind turbines

    Areva Wind specializes in the construction of offshore wind turbines. The 5 MW systems are equipped with Beckhoff control technology throughout.

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  • Media converter optimized for use in EtherCAT networks

    Beckhoff continues to extend its range of infrastructure components with the EtherCAT media converter for the bidirectional conversion of optical fibre physics to copper physics.

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