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With new fieldbus adapters, ABB drives customers are free to choose, and connect with virtually any automation architecture. Greg Semrow, product manager, ABB Low Voltage Drives says “Your PLC does not dictate the rest of your automation equipment. Instead, a wide array of fieldbus adapters makes it easy to integrate ABB drives and power devices to the architecture you have – or choose!”

The RETA-02 Ethernet Adapter module is an optional device mounted under the cover of ABB drives. These RETA-02 PROFINET IO and Modbus/TCP Adapter modules, makes it possible to:

– Send control commands to the drive (Start, Stop, Run enable, etc.);
– Send motor speed or torque reference to the drive;
– Send a process actual value or a process reference to the PID controller of the drive;
– Read status information and actual values from the drive;
– Change drive parameter values; and
– Reset a drive fault.

The fieldbus adapter snaps into a drive in seconds, and can be ordered installed on new drives, or the module can be retrofitted to ABB’s existing drives.

The RETA-02 module already is available for ABB’s line of ACS drives for industrial markets and application; in early June, it also will be available for ABB’s drives for the HVAC/commercial market.