1. AmsNAT
2. Motivation

Motivation

A frequently occurring application in series mechanical engineering is the cloning (i.e. the making of a 1:1 copy) of a controller. When using TwinCAT, the result of this is that all cloned instances possess the same AmsNetId. This is not a problem at first. However, if the cloned instances are to be connected in parallel with the same engineering system or are to communicate with one another by ADS, this is initially impossible because the AmsNetId is not unique. The AmsNAT function removes precisely this restriction by virtue of the fact that the systems work with virtual AmsNetIds. These can be configured with very little effort.

The AmsNAT function can be used for any route to an ADS device. This provides a high degree of flexibility and the AmsNetIds no longer have to be adapted to the machine computers, which leads to a significant reduction in time and effort for configuration.