MECHATROLINK

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MECHATROLINK is an open protocol used for industrial automation, originally developed by Yaskawa and presently maintained by Mechatrolink Members Association (MMA).{{cite web|url=http://www.mechatrolink.org/en/index.html |title=MECHATROLINK Members Association |accessdate=2013-05-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607130153/http://www.mechatrolink.org/en/index.html |archivedate=2013-06-07 }}

Mechatrolink protocol has two major variants:

• MECHATROLINK-II—Defines protocol communication schemes through serial link equivalent to RS485 with a maximum speed of 10 Mbit/s and maximum 30 slave nodes.
• MECHATROLINK-III—Defines protocol communication schemes over Ethernet with a maximum speed of 100 Mbit/s and maximum 62 slave nodes.