Janz Industrial PC Systems

Many Janz customers have experienced the fact that we offer expert, knowledgeable support from our own development department. They are also pleased to find that we are a reliable, close-contact partner, offering prompt assistance with hardware and software development technical issues.

Janz offers solutions that are as unique as your needs and requirements. We are eager to provide our customers with optimal solutions – matched to the application and customer-specific requirements. From project planning right up to product delivery - even fitting customized logos - we will create your custom product!
We can deliver our embedded and industrial PCs in various colours and designs to suit customer requirements, so all custom designed, whether you need a few hundred systems or just a few pieces. We are well-equipped for the future and few have products already in the pipeline to meet tomorrow’s customer needs.

General about CAN
CAN (Controller Area Network) is a serial bus system especially suited for networking ”intelligent” devices as well as sensors and actuators within a system or a sub-system.

The attributes of CAN
CAN is a bus system with multi-master capabilities, that is, all CAN nodes can request the bus simultaneously. The bus system CAN with real-time capabilities is the subject of the international standard ISO/DIS 11898 and covers the lowest two layers of the ISO/OSI reference model.
In CAN networks there is no addressing of subscribers or stations in the conventional sense, but instead, prioritized messages are transmitted. Introductory courses, function libraries, starter kits, host interfaces, I/O modules and tools are available permitting low cost implementation of CAN networks. Low-cost controller chips implementing the CAN data link layer protocol in silicon and permitting simple connection to microcontrollers have been available since 1989. The use of CAN in most of European passenger cars and the decision by truck and offroad vehicle vendors for CAN guarantees the availability of CAN chips for the next 10 years minimum. Other high volume markets, like domestic appliances and industrial control, also increase the CAN sales figures. One of the outstanding features of the CAN protocol is its high transmission reliability. The maximum transmission rate is specified as 1 MBit/s. This value applies to networks up to 40 m. For longer distances the data rate must be reduced: for distances up to 500 m a speed of 125 kBit/s is possible, and for transmissions up to 1 km a data rate of 50kBit/s is permitted.

Janz CAN Products – The first choice of the market leaders!

Janz CAN host interfaces are available for a wide range of different platforms, like ISA/PCI, CompactPCI, VMEbus, PCcard (PCMCIA), PMC, PC/104 and others. Software support and libraries with standard APIs for Windows, Linux, QNX, VxWorks and many other operating systems are also available.
Many companies all over the world have chosen Janz Automationssysteme AG as reliable supplier for CAN products of highest quality, with unrivalled product support.
Choosing the right system platform and the right operating system for your special project is critical. Janz' CAN products are widely recognized as the best solution for quality projects from design and implementation and on in to production.

POWERLINK is deterministic real-time protocol for standard Ethernet. It distinguishes between real time domains and Non Real Time domains. This separation matches typical machine and plant concepts. It also satisfies the increasing security demands to prevent hacker attacks on the machine level or harm through erroneous data communication on higher network hierarchies. Hard Real Time requirements are met within the real time domain. Less time critical data is routed transparently between the real time domain and non real time domain using standard IP frames. A clear boundary between a machine and factory network prevents potential security flaws from the very beginning while keeping full data transparency.

VMEbus Technology is the only computing technology which has been established in the market for more than 20 years now. Additional to the special industrial requirements the VMEbus adapted himself over the past to all new requirements at the industrial market. It permanent has been developed with new features. The most important detail must be the forward and backward compatibility. So VMEbus can be used over a period of many years.
All VMEbus products can being combined with VMEbus products of different manufacturers. So all VMEbus systems are 100% compatible to each other.

The MODULbus I/O concept is a system independent flexible modular input/output solution for industrial applications. It consists of a carrier board for the specific host computer bus system (VMEbus, CompactPCI, ISA, PCI) and a range of more than 50 different I/O modules with MODULbus interface to the carrier board.
Using the MODULbus I/O concept, the system integrator is able to develop computer systems with flexible configurations for application in industrial environments, small and low-cost solutions for e.g. test and measurement purpose can also easily be designed.