Design of communications equipment for factory LANs

Author

Marino, Perfecto ; Poza, Francisco ; Nogurira, J.B.

Author_Institution

ETSI Telecomunicacion, Vigo Univ., Spain

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

7-11 Jul 1997

Firstpage

23

Abstract

Shop floor communications networks are evolving towards the increased use of open connecting equipment, that meets standard protocols, under a client/server architecture. An implementation of such a communications server, based on a low cost PC with multiport and field bus cards, is presented. The first prototype has been designed as a black box transparent to flexible manufacturing plants, connecting sixteen SCARA robots and thirty programmable logic controllers

Keywords

client-server systems; factory automation; field buses; industrial robots; local area networks; microcomputer applications; programmable controllers; protocols; robots; SCARA robots; client/server architecture; communications equipment design; communications server; factory LAN; field bus card; fieldbus network; flexible manufacturing plants; low cost PC; multiport card; open connecting equipment; programmable logic controllers; serial controllers; shop floor communications networks; standard protocols; Communication equipment; Communication networks; Communication standards; Costs; Flexible manufacturing systems; Joining processes; Network servers; Production facilities; Protocols; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 1997. ISIE '97., Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guimaraes

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3936-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.1997.651784

Filename

651784