July 12-14, 2016 Moscone Center San Fransisco, CA
Digital Dynamics (DDI) designs and manufactures best-in-class EtherCAT I/O control solutions for mission-critical OEM capital equipment.
DDI offers the industry's broadest selection of digital & analog I/O on the market. DDI's modular Fusion.IO platform enables quick selection, configuration and customization to support the OEM designers critical development timelines. Fusion.IO is built with intrinsic functional safety, certified by TÜV Rheinland to meet 61508 SIL 3 and ISO 13849-1:2015 Level e.
The Fusion.IO platform supports I/O expansion using Remote I/O Modules, with I/O scan rates up to 8kHz. DDI's serial option card enables connection of legacy serial devices to the EtherCAT network.
Digital Dynamics Interlock Builder™ software measurably reduces system interlock design & commissioning time, speeding new product development and improving time-to-market. The Live Monitor feature enables access to the I/O fabric while in service, enabling easy validation of I/O states, as well as field troubleshooting.
DDI will customize its solutions for OEM's facing the challenging physical requirements of modern automated process equipment.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SCOTTS VALLEY, CA, May 21, 2023 – Digital Dynamics, Inc. (DDI) today announces the additional certification by TÜV Rheinland for its FUSION.IO safe interlock controller with built-in safe interlock timers. FUSION.IO with safe interlock timers meets the stringent requirements of IEC 61508 SIL3, IEC 62061 SIL C 3 according, and EN ISO 13849-1 Cat. 3 / PL e.
The Interlock Timer feature enables the system designer to incorporate precise timing delays between DIN (digital input) interlock signals and SOUT (safety out) output signals as needed using DDI’s Interlock Builder™ configuration utility. Incorporating interlock timers within the FUSION.IO interlock system enables the machine designer to implement a timer based safe interlock system without the need for external safety PLCs and hard-wired relay interlock boards.
Timers are incorporated into DDI’s Interlock Builder™ configuration utility as a configurable logic device, complementing DDI’s powerful, intuitive ‘drag ‘n drop’ Boolean logic symbol library. Timers include rising edge ON, falling edge OFF and pulse ON-OFF. Timing resolution is 125 microseconds, up to maximum period of over nine hours.
“User configurable timers provide a means to coordinate and balance the operational sequencing of a safe IO system,” said Gary Daniel, Engineering Fellow of Digital Dynamics, Inc. “The SIL3 PL e rating further demonstrates DDI’s ongoing commitment to innovation and delivering best-in-class products.”
Digital Dynamics, Inc., based in Scotts Valley, CA, designs and produces state of the art real-time distributed IO & automation solutions to OEMs supporting mission critical manufacturing process. Certified by TÜV Rheinland, the FUSION.IO platform combines high performance process IO control with built-in SIL3 rated functional safety, enabling machine designers to deploy safety interlocks without requiring external relay interlock boards or a dedicated safety PLC. Digital Dynamics is an ISO 9000 registered company with over 40 years of design and manufacturing experience, fielding an overall installed base of over 90,000+ controllers to date.
Contact: Digital Dynamics, Inc., 5 Victor Square, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, 831-438-4444 Tony DiLeonardo, VP Sales & Marketing, 831-269-5951
Digital Dynamics, Inc. (DDI) is proud to offer its Fusion.IO platform as the semiconductor equipment industry's state of the art functional safety rated I/O interlock control solution. Fusion.IO leverages DDI's thirty-year history supplying high density I/O controls to OEMs supplying mission critical process tools to the worlds most demanding fabs. Fusion.IO enables the design and deployment of SIL3 functional safety rated I/O interlocks in a variety of compact modular packages. A Fusion.IO system is comprised of a Fusion Control Module with expansion ports supporting up to four Remote IO Modules, or RIMs. A single Fusion.IO module can support up to 384 mixed I/O points, enabling deployment of up to 1920 mixed I/O points under control of a single EtherCAT control node. Fusion.IO internal I/O scan rate is a blazing 8kHz (125 usec), with a world class <1u sec jitter.
Leveraging Fusion Control Modules and RIM architecture, the equipment engineer can deploy I/O in zoned clusters placed precisely where needed in the machine. Zoning I/O with local and remote modules enables the equipment engineer to eliminate expensive I/O cabinet racks & home-run cable harnesses, reducing BOM cost, saving space and reducing overall cost of ownership. Fusion.IO supports over 22 I/O types, or slot cards, including digital IO, analog IO, thermocouple & RTD temperature sensors, and dry contact signal relays. Additional features include a serial communication gateway slot card with four channels, enabling connection of legacy serial devices to the host control network through a Fusion.IO system.
Fusion.IO Control Modules and RIMs are available with a standard or a customized Field Connect interface. The custom Field Connect enables tailoring Fusion.IO modules to the OEMs existing cabling schemes, eliminating expensive interface breakout boards & relay interlock boards typical of cabinet mounted rack I/O systems.
SIL3 functional safety interlocks can be configured across any I/O point within the Fusion.IO system using DDI's Interlock Builder graphical configuration utility. Interlock Builder enables the system engineer to configure interlock logic in software, and flash them to the Fusion Control Module, saving months of development time typical of relay interlock systems.
Fusion.IO is carries a SIL3 cat e functional safety rating, certified by TÜV Rheinland. Fusion.IO can be used in applications up to Performance Level e according to EN ISO 13489-1, and SIL3 according to IEC 62601 & IEC 61508
Whether starting a new design, improving an existing design, or updating a legacy design, DDI's Solution Engineers are readily available for consultation from concept through project completion.
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