The company spidercam is providing spectacular footage from sports stadiums, arenas and concert halls. The PC-based control technology from Beckhoff is used to control and drive its cable-suspended camera.

Beckhoff – in cooperation with the Austrian projection specialists from AV Stumpfl – presents the integration of Beckhoff hardware in the software-based PIXERA control framework. This allows digital, analog, serial and DMX-based hardware modules to be easily interconnected via a plug-and-control function.

With its headquarters in the Hungarian city of Dunakeszi, Rigging in Motion Ltd specializes in the automation of stage technology. The company’s trusses and rigging platforms are used worldwide in film productions and event stunts – all automated with PC-based control.

How can you create ultimate guest experiences? PC-based control from Beckhoff offers you technology that is proven in applications around the globe, which you can use to master any creative challenge. Watch the film to discover more about the Beckhoff system for realizing ultimate visitor experiences and enjoy increased competitiveness as a result!

In this edition of Beckhoff Trade Show TV we relive the highlights from the Beckhoff booth at ISE 2020. We show product news in I/O, IPC, Motion and Automation and talk about special topics such as the direct connection of of Q-SYS™ devices over QRC with PC-based control.

At ISE 2019, Beckhoff demonstrated how central media and building technology applications can be integrated on a single control platform. In this edition of Beckhoff Trade Show TV, you can also learn more about TwinCAT Speech: the controller that can understand and generate speech signals, or about the integration of MIDI applications into the Beckhoff control system. And look forward to many more product news on I/O, IPC, Motion and Automation.

At ISE 2018, Beckhoff presented all the components for a holistically integrated control approach, making it possible to directly connect such media technology applications as audio/video control and integrated automation, device management through to show effects with building automation.

In Diepenbeek, Belgium, LIMTEC+ has realized an innovative training facility for the advanced education of technical maintenance personnel. For the first time, LIMTEC+ combines state-of-the-art stage technologies and industrial communication standards in a building automation platform. The building management system integrates all functions of the modern building.

At the State Museum of Archaeology (smac) in Chemnitz, Germany, history has become a multi-sensory experience, thanks to state-of-the-art multimedia technology. The kinetic landscape model depicting the Free State of Saxony hovers in the foyer of the building. As the model moves through three floor levels, a film is projected onto it, illustrating the development of Saxon cultural history. For the control of this kinetic installation with dynamic projection mapping the PC- and EtherCAT-based control technology from Beckhoff is used.

EtherCAT synchronizes 529 axes to automate a kinetic art installation of the Scandinavian Design Group, Beckhoff Servo Terminals move the virtual ocean: The kinetic installation consists of a field of 529 plexiglas tubes, constantly moved in such a way that they create a 3 D image of undulation in the eye of the viewer.

What is probably the world’s largest kinetic sculpture was realized in “Kinetic Rain” at Changi Airport in Singapore. In allusion to the tropical rain, the installation consists of 1,216 brilliantly sparkling, copper-plated aluminium droplets. These are suspended from the ceiling on thin steel wires and each one is moved by a small servomotor. During a 15-minute show, the droplets are formed into different pictures connected with the subject of flying. MKT AG, experts in kinetic installations, took care of the complete technical implementation of “Kinetic Rain”, including the software. The challenge of moving 1,216 servo axes synchronously was solved on the basis of EtherCAT, TwinCAT and the compact Servo Drives in Bus Terminal format.