Industrial Communication Guide

3.8. CC-LINK

CC-Link is especially common in Asia. In addition to its country of origin, Japan, use of CC-Link is mainly growing in neighboring coun- tries such as China and Korea.

CC-Link stands for Control and Communication Link. It was devel- oped in 1996 by Mitsubishi as an internal company fieldbus so as to enable the manufacturer to network its own products in the area of plant automation. Areas of application lie in the control of individ- ual machines, manufacturing islands, production installations and entire factories, warehouse and transportation systems as well as building automation.

38