What is CC-Link?
From “Field” to “Integration”
As the world top runner, the CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) takes lead to further open up industrial network.
irst from Asia, the field network CC-Link has been opening up ever further as CLPA takes the lead to develop and diffuse it globally.
Supported by the energetic diffusion activities and enhanced by the ISO accreditation, the CC-Link has grown up as the true global standard network.
Now, as a solution to the needs for total system optimization that integrates various functions not only control but also device management (setting, monitoring), device maintenance (monitoring and failure detection) and data collection (operating condition), CLPA brings about an Ethernet-based industrial network vision and is making it come to being.
It is the integrated network "CC-Link IE" that enables seamless data transfer from the information network layer to the field device layer. Backed up by the technology and proven services accumulated through the development of the CC-Link, CLPA is promoting to open it up further to meet your expectations.
These figures are self-explanatory about the development and growth on the global level.
Many member firms come crossing the boarders to join CLPA.
Though starting with only 134 member firms when CLPA was established, we now have more than 1,232 member firms as of August 2009. The overseas firms account for as much as 59 % of the memberships, providing a solid evidence that the world has recognized that the field network CCLink, first from Japan, is to the true global standard.
A line of diversified CC-Link compatible products, as many as the number of user voices.
With the increasing number of vendor firms joining CLPA, the accumulated CC-Link compatible products have exceeded as diversified as 1,000 in kinds. For the excellent features of these member products to be known and understood, CLPA prepares “CC-Link Product Catalog” and “CC-Link Family Demonstration Panel”.
Recognized in the world market, the number of shipped nodes has exceeded 5 million.
Centered on the automobile, semiconductor and liquid crystal industries, the number of shipped nodes of CC-Link compatible products keeps growing. It has exceeded 6 million at all in year 2008 and is picking up speed even more.
