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The control systems of the company Hundegger Maschinenbau GmbH are based on EtherCAT. Their first choice is the real-time master from Kithara Software, holding the role as a specialist for real-time control solutions again.

More and more industrial enterprises rebuild their control technology and change their conventional field bus systems into innovative real-time Ethernet solutions like for example EtherCAT. For that, Kithara Software supplies essential function libaries for Windows-based PCs to realize time-critical applications. Developers benefit from a lean, demand-oriented programming and have full control over it.

The real-time libraries from Kithara Software allow highly precise timers with several kilohertz and real-time Ethernet communication over selected Fast and Gigabit Ethernet network controllers. Using the preemptive multi-tasking, the EtherCAT master utilizes the highest system priority and thereby works in high precision.

For this reason the software is the ideal tool for all developers who want to realize real-time Ethernet or rather EtherCAT solutions.
Just like the development engineers of the Hans Hundegger Maschinenbau GmbH, the world’s market leader concerning fully automated, computer-operated joinery machines. Through long-time positive experiences with the real-time timer functions of the »RealTime Suite«, Hundegger Maschinenbau still relies on the innovative technologies of Kithara and has converted the control units of their modern machines for EtherCAT.

The highly flexible machinery is sawing, milling, drilling, planing and transporting fully automated and is thereby producing almost variable prefabricated parts from the substance wood. The connection for these complex and high-precision manufacture is processed over the real-time Ethernet access in the control computer
Kithara Software shows with this example, that the »RealTime Suite« complies the highest requirements on innovative technology.