Why IEEE 1394 (“FireWire”) might not be a perfect choice for factory automation today - a case study from the printing industry

Author

Rehkopf, Andreas ; Weber, Johannes ; Groeger, Hans-Detlef

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Automatisierungstechnik, Tech. Univ. Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg

fYear

2008

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

460

Lastpage

463

Abstract

Only a couple of years ago IEEE 1394 and derivatives were seen as a promising alternative to already well established standards in industrial communications or even military avionics. Right now it has become pretty quiet around IEEE 1394. This contribution presents why the digital printing industry chose IEEE 1394 and how it tried to adopt it. It then describes the problems the industry stumbled upon and it why these problems are also relevant to other industrial applications. To some extend this showcase adoption process and its problems even seem to be similar to some of todaypsilas realtime Ethernet issues.

Keywords

IEEE standards; factory automation; local area networks; peripheral interfaces; printing industry; IEEE 1394; factory automation; industrial communications; military avionics; printing industry; realtime Ethernet issues; Communication industry; Communication standards; Defense industry; Digital printing; Firewire; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries; Military standards; Printers; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2008. ETFA 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1505-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1506-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638436

Filename

4638436