Service Life; Fig. 29 Unique Serial Number (S.no.) Of A Twinsafe Ethercat Box - Beckhoff EP1908 Operating Instructions Manual

Service life

6 Service life
The TwinSAFE EtherCAT Boxes have a service life of 20 years.
Due to the high diagnostic coverage within the lifecycle no special proof tests are required.
Date code
The TwinSAFE EtherCAT Boxes have a date code (D:), which is structured as follows:
Date code: WW YY SW HW
Legend:
WW: Calendar week of manufacture
YY: Year of manufacture
SW: Software version
HW: Hardware version
Serial number (S.No.)
In addition, the TwinSAFE EtherCAT Boxes have a unique serial number (S.No.).
Fig. 29: Unique serial number (S.No.) of a TwinSAFE EtherCAT Box
46
Sample: Date code 45 12 05 00
Calendar week: 45
Year: 2012
Software version: 01
Hardware version: 00
Version: 3.0.0 EP1908