Beckhoff Automation's new BK9053PROFINET Bus Coupler expands the Beckhoff Bus Terminal system via acost-effective PROFINET RT slave. It is optimized for cost-sensitiveapplications and is manufactured with a space-saving housing design.

The BK9053 makes the complete range ofapproximately 400 different Beckhoff Bus Terminals available to PROFINET users.This flexible Bus Coupler connects PROFINET RT to the modularly extendable BusTerminal system via a backplane connection. PROFINET cycle times down to1 ms are possible with the BK9053. The coupler is configured andparameterized in the controller via the GSDML (basic device file). Cost is $235U.S.

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