Current news

Dec 2008: CPU 314SX - The next step in SPEED7

For the first time, VIPA GmbH, located in Herzogenaurach presents a SPEED7 CPU that especially stands out with extremely fast I/Os and enables shortest reaction times of digital and analog signals - the CPU 314SX!


Dec 2008: Entering the High Performance CPU Class "SPEED7"

By means of the new SPEED7-CPU 314SE VIPA GmbH Herzogenaurach offers a reasonable priced entry to the SPEED7 technology. This compact PLC is available for only 498,00€.


Jul 2008: VIPA sets the pace in the catacombs

Cham’s SATOMEC Automation, (PLC-manufacturer VIPA's general agent) has supplied PLC system components for Gilgen Logistics AG’s retrofit contract at the University Hospital in Basel The processes in materials handling are being...


Nov 2007: Category winner at Innovation Prize 2007

The German "Initiative Mittelstand" has awarded the Innovation Prize 2007 to our product "SPEED7 - Fastest Hard-PLC in the world".


Sep 2007: Programmable logic controller compatible with SPEED7

VIPA has released the SPEED7-CPU programmable logic controller with CAN interface (PLC). The PLC is programmable with STEP7 from Siemens and is adjustable to the instruction set of S/-300 and S/-400 from Siemens.


Jun 2007: With STEP7 and CAN

With Step7 and CAN Vipa released their Touch Panels with a Step7 PLC. The devices also integrate a CAN interface.


Apr 2007: High Speed for small applications

With the new SPEED 7-CPUs 313SC and 314SC from Vipa, the portfolio of the high-speed automation devices has been completed for the lower level.


Feb 2007: The fastest Hard-PLC worldwide with integrated Ethernet-CP 343

The new SPEED7-CPU from VIPA is worldwide the fastest automation set of its kind and self-evident it is programmable with STEP7 from Siemens and adjustable to the instruction set of S7-300 or S7-400 from Siemens.


Nov 2005: High speed technology

Fast programme execution, flexible memory expansion and programmability like S7 from Siemens - these are the key features of the new hard PLC introduced here.


Apr 2004: Modular is trump

Modularsystems for automation Solutions within different ranges - Industrial Ethernet, a technology that achieves rising attention in the industrial automation. Advantages are not only the standardized communication but also the...