Integration of manufacturing computer networks and real-time communication nodes

Author

Marino, Perfecto ; Poza, Francisco ; Nogueira, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Technol., Vigo Univ.

fYear

1997

Firstpage

493

Lastpage

498

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 in 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 up to sixteen SCARA robots and thirty programmable logic controllers

Keywords

client-server systems; computer integrated manufacturing; field buses; flexible manufacturing systems; local area networks; microcomputer applications; multiport networks; protocols; real-time systems; PLC; SCARA robots; client/server architecture; field bus card; low-cost PC; manufacturing computer network integration; multiport card; open connecting equipment; programmable logic controllers; real-time communication nodes; shop-floor communications networks; standard protocols; Communication networks; Communication standards; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer architecture; Computer integrated manufacturing; Computer networks; Costs; Joining processes; Network servers; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Engineering Systems, 1997. INES '97. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3627-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INES.1997.632467

Filename

632467