Over past years, data acquisition systems themselves have evolved, but many existing machines and factory setups still rely on outdated components, making maintenance, scalability, and compatibility increasingly difficult. Without modernization effort, the customer could faced longer downtimes, rising maintenance costs, and a real risk for the future projects.

ADDI-DATA provides a complete solution to solve the problems encountered by our customers

Our customers approach us with a range of technical and operational situations when expressing their needs.

Legacy Bus Architectures (ISA & PCI): Declining Availability and Increasing Risk

The customer is still operating systems based on aging hardware architectures, originally built around the ISA bus and later largely migrated to the PCI bus. While ISA has long been obsolete and spare parts are now virtually unavailable, PCI is following the same path. It is increasingly being phased out of modern mainboards, and the availability of compatible components continues to decline steadily. This dual constraint makes hardware modernization essential to ensure long-term system reliability, operational continuity, and sustainable infrastructure support.

32-Bit Systems / Upgrade to 64 Bit

The customer still uses a mix of PCI and PCIe-based hardware combined with a 32-bit system. With support for Windows 10 and older operating systems discontinued, there is a strong desire to upgrade to 64-bit Windows 11. Since this transition is virtually impossible without new hardware, a full system upgrade becomes necessary.

Fragmented Sourcing for DAQ and Computing components

In many industrial projects, multiple critical components are often sourced from different suppliers, creating procurement complexity and increasing operational costs due to multiple points of contact. By integrating high-performance IPCs into our DAQ portfolio, we provide a unified solution that centralizes responsibility, simplifies sourcing, and reduces coordination overhead through a single, coherent system approach.

Across industries, aligning with stakeholder needs and expectations, structured around three key considerations:

Why our customers choose ADDI-DATA and the MSX-BOX-IPC-2?

The MSX-BOX-IPC-2 directly addresses the operational challenges and evolving needs faced by organizations today:

• When legacy software cannot be reused directly, ADDI-DATA actively accompanies the customer from code adaptation to full functional reimplementation, ensuring behavioral equivalence, validated timing, and a controlled migration with minimal risk.

• The MSX-BOX-IPC-2 delivers a deterministic, high-performance data acquisition platform built around ADDI-PACK, ADDI-DATA’s unified driver and software framework.

• ADDI-PACK abstracts the underlying hardware architecture and ensures consistent operation across PCI, PCIe, CPCI, and CPCIs systems, enabling customers to modernize machines and test benches while preserving existing application logic whenever possible.

• By combining a long-term available industrial IPC, scalable DAQ configurations, and a single, unified software layer, the MSX-BOX-IPC-2 reduces integration effort, simplifies maintenance, and provides a future-proof foundation for real-time measurement, control, and edge intelligence while protecting the customer’s investment.

• As an additionnal solution, the industrial platform is AI-ready, offering optional GPU for predictive Maintenance and quality control tasks.

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If you want to learn more about the MSX-BOX-IPC-2, you can find additional information directly on the product page.

ADDI-DATA SOLUTION

DAQ cards
• For various signal types
• High precision
• Robust and interference-resistant

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Real-time systems
• EtherCAT and Profinet
• Linux systems including real-time extension
• PC boards with RTX real-time drivers

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Ethernet systems
• Direct sensor connection
• Onboard calculation of the acquired data
• For use in the field, up to IP 67

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Data loggers
• Long-term data acquisition of numerous signal types
• Setup of the measurement device without programming knowledge
• Visualisation of the live data

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Customized solutions

The best solution often is customized. As a manufacturer, we are able to adapt our solutions as closely as possible to your requirements. We are pleased to advise you on finding the best solution for your applications and to perform the necessary adaptations for you.
Just ask us!

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To optimise automation processes in a sustainable way, at first their weak points must be detected: A challenge for modern measurement technology :

• Increasing the machine load factor,
• Reducing defective goods,
• Reliable tolerance measurement,
• 100% quality control,
• Preventive error and wear detection

These are just some of the optimizations that can be achieved with ADDI-DATA’s high-precision intelligent measurement systems!

Numerous application fields

Modern measurement technology can be used for various tasks, as many signal types can be acquired. Thus it is possible to identify the different weakness in the automation chain. Here are some examples:

Increase productivity

Sensor signals

Input

Digital
Counter
Analog
Inductive transducers
ICP
Temperature, Pressure
Serial
Motion control

Output

Measurement and acquisition

Subsequent processing

Interfaces
Ethernet
Modbus
Wireless
LAN

Evaluation
Visualisation

Regulation
Control
PLC
IPC

Signal output

Control and
regulation

USE CASE

Position acquisition of glass components at a welding process

Challenge:
At the construction of glass components two parts are welded with hot air. As the material is very fragile the welding process must be carried out very carefully and precisely (1 µm) despite of the speed in order to avoid the breaking of the parts.
Furthermore it must be made sure that the glass components are close enough to guarantee a good quality of the weld seam. Thus the components’ position shall be acquired in intervals of 200 ms.

Solution:
For the position detection of the glass components the Ethernet counter system MSX-E1731 via EnDat 2.2 sensors has been chosen due to its speed and precision.
At the beginning of the welding process the SPS triggers the MSXE1731 system to start the measurement process. As soon as the glass components are in the correct position the system sends two signals: One for the digital output to stop the axes and via Ethernet the start signal for the welding process. When the welding phase is over all acquired data is transferred to a Linux server for archival storage.

ADDI-DATA SOLUTION

DAQ cards
• For various signal types
• High precision
• Robust and interference-resistant

See more

Real-time systems
• EtherCAT and Profinet
• Linux systems including real-time extension
• PC boards with RTX real-time drivers

See more

Ethernet systems
• Direct sensor connection
• Onboard calculation of the acquired data
• For use in the field, up to IP 67

See more

Data loggers
• Long-term data acquisition of numerous signal types
• Setup of the measurement device without programming knowledge
• Visualisation of the live data

See more

Customized solutions
The best solution often is customized. As a manufacturer, we are able to adapt our solutions as closely as possible to your requirements. We are pleased to advise you on finding the best solution for your applications and to perform the necessary adaptations for you.
Just ask us!

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• Measurement electronics for EnDat 2.2

• For absolute encoders

• Ideal extension for machine tools

Position value acquisition

Measurement electronics for EnDat 2.2

With ADDI-DATA measurement solutions you can connect up to 8 EnDat 2.2 encoders and acquire the position values of absolute encoders. In combination with the digital bidirectional interface EnDat 2.2 absolute encoders provide the position value directly, without reference run. EnDat 2.2 is preferentially used for applications with highly precise positioning and high repeat accuracy. Diagnostic data like temperature, line break, etc. can also be transferred.

High requirements for the subsequent electronics

Whether PC-based or distributed – the EnDat 2.2 interface has high requirements to the subsequent electronics: Precise position detection at high frequency, velocity, robustness and interference-resistance are significant for the subsequent electronics.

ADDI-DATA offers four different solutions for the position acquisition:
• PCI-Express counter board with a high input frequency up to 10 MHz (optional)
• Intelligent motion control board for complex positioning tasks
• Intelligent Ethernet counter system for direct use inside machines
• Motion Box for real-time positioning tasks

Functional principle

Application example

Exact positioning of axes for the regulation of surface measurement devices for
rotationally symmetric parts (e.g. gear wheels)

Challenge:
For the measurement of the surfaces of rotationally symmetric parts numerous axes must be positioned. Furthermore the signals must be fastly transferred in order to detect the position as exactly as possible. To safe time, absolute encoders are used because they do not need any reference runs when started.

Solution:
The measurement device consists of a measurement table with a gate. The rotationally symmetric parts are fixed on the measurement table and their surface is tested with a sensor connected to the gate. To move the sensor around the parts the gate has several axes equipped with EnDat 2.2 absolute encoders. The precision of the axis position is assured by the PCI Express counter board APCIe-1711: Thanks to its high input speed of 10 MHz (optional APCIe-1711-10MHZ version) and its resistance to interferences, the board is able to move the axes precisely even at high speed.

Position acquisition of glass components at a welding process

Challenge:
For the construction of glass components two parts are welded with hot air. As the material is very fragile the welding process must be carried out very carefully and precisely (1 µm) despite of the speed in order to avoid the breaking of the parts. Furthermore it must be made sure that the glass components are close enough to guarantee a good quality of the weld seam. Thus the position of the component shall be acquired in intervals of 200 ms.

Solution:
For the position detection of the glass components the Ethernet counter system MSX-E1731 with EnDat 2.2 sensors has been chosen due to its speed and precision. At the beginning of the welding process the SPS triggers the MSX-E1731 system to start the measurement process. As soon as the glass components are in the correct position the system sends two signals: One for the digital output to stop the axes and via Ethernet the start signal for the welding process. When the welding phase is over all acquired data is transferred to a Linux server for archival storage.

Automatic measurement device for clutch disks

Challenge:
The functional reliability of the pull-back springs on clutch disks shall be tested. Thereby the force in relation to the distance shall be measured. How can the relation force / distance be exactly established?

Solution:
For establishing correctly the relation force / distance, position acquisition plays an important role. A clutch disc is positioned and locked in place on a conveyor belt. A plunger gets down until it reaches the clutch disc. The plunger turns and thereby force and distance are measured. In order to find the absolute positions as fast and as accurately as possible, EnDat 2.2 encoders are used for the positioning of the axes. An APCI-8008 board acquires data from the EnDat 2.2 encoders and the position values are included in the regulating process. To get the force values, the APCI-8008 reads the measured values of the PCI pressure measurement board APCI-3300 directly via bus master access.

EnDat 2.2 Measurement electronics

PC-based and distributed solutions

Counter board PCI-Express
• Fast counter inputs (up to 10 MHz)
• Can be combined with functions like PWM, incremental
• 64-bit drivers for Windows 7/Vista/XP

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Intelligent motion control board
• Controling up to 8 axes
• Mixed mode servo / stepper motors
• Ethernet/EtherCAT interfaces

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Intelligent Ethernet counter system
• 4 counter inputs
• Direct sensor connection
• For use in the field, IP 65

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