Creating key technologies-industrial plant fieldbus Intelligent IP

"The industry 4.0 (Industry 4)" the essence of the network extend greatly, through the production, purchase and Governor, and rapid integration of information communication, create intelligent plant. From the factory in terms of practice, intelligent plant is not only up to factory automation, remote monitoring processes to ensure smooth production, can also help manufacturers of factory production control, property management, and warehouse management, real-time chop with capacity needs and scale, to avoid launch large-scale development projects while simultaneously raise productivity and meet production demands in real time for customized orders.

  

Industrial Ethernet networks to achieve significant, real-time, tele-information transmission

Under the vision of intelligent plant, building industrial Ethernet networks with the PC-based controller, urged factories full IP has become today an important school. New Chinese computer industry computer business unit industrial automation product planning director Li Liwei notes, industrial Ethernet networks with high scalability, support for large, real-time, remote information transmission and many other advantages, can be adapted to equipment changes, the expansion of network infrastructure, meet the requirements of cross-transmission of information in real time.

In addition, it also supports redundant industrial Ethernet Ring network architecture, improve the reliability of data transmission, is intelligent plant exchanges of information in reliable media, can also make up for the lack traditional serial communication interface.

In the petrochemical industry, for example, dozens of hectares of petrochemical Park, operators needed to collect monitoring data, control parameters, spanning dozens of plants within the Park, one can imagine eye-popping amount of information transmission. In addition the plant responsible for different upstream and downstream processes, information transmission between plant when more realistic, without interruption, can help operators meet the parameter optimization, preventive maintenance and operation zero mistakes, while maximizing power generation interests.

PC-based thread factory controllers in every corner of

There is no denying that is, Fieldbus Communication Protocol schools, building industrial Ethernet is not an easy task, and create intelligent plant must be based on the existing equipment, systems. Current factory automation market by Siemens (Siemens), Rockwell (Rockwell), dominated by Beckhoff Industrial automation companies, these firms the reliability and stability of long-proven, this eco-are unlikely to change, so industrial Ethernet network using standard network protocols, you will need a compatible with factory setting ' PROFINET, PROFIBUS, EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, EtherCAT and many other messaging protocols.

Under this scenario, benefits PC-based controller is more obvious. Li Liwei explained, first of all, PC-based controller communication interfaces supported by a programmable logic controller (Programmable Logic Controller;PLC) is broad and flexible. Secondly, the PC-based controller expansion easy, this line added machines, factory new in situ instruments, or place the PC-based controller, cable can be completed, manufacture less intrusive, even does not have a job shut down while those on PLC control system is not necessarily the case. 2013 on the offshore industry, many different tasks charged again with focus on system PC-based controller, PC-based controller charm is evident.

Li Liwei pointed out that, towards full IP of smart factory of while, needed conform to the industrial control market of established trend, due to manufacturing scene may mixed used different dealer different communications agreement of control system, such as semiconductor industry who of system drive control and wastewater processing system will may not be selected since same dealer, and as petrochemical industry who due to park built period subparagraph, the period selection of control system is endless same; again as Depot, and appliances manufacturing factory, manufacturing scene more is mixed general commercial computer and industrial controller. PC-based controller can help manufacturers build IP intelligent plant-wide and at the factory in the transition process, to promote production ride comfort and stability.

NIFE launched a new Chinese computer solutions (NEXCOM Industrial Fieldbus Embedded Computer), integrating the full range of different processor architectures, models and dimensions of PC-based controller, supports the FBI (Fieldbus Interface) adapter card supports a variety of Fieldbus Communication Protocol and matching full software capability, real-time and non-real-time operating systems, control software, HMI/ Integration of SCADA software, and through original tests verify to ensure PC-based Director, communications adapters, software compatibility between these three.

Through Matrix type of soft hard combination, new Han carefully integration out stable of industrial control system, links scene end and factory end, turn will information shared to upper management end and the business end, to so in industrial 4 era, assist manufacturing who build full IP smart factory, by to achieved smart production (Smart Production), and green production (Green Production), and city production (Urban Production) of vision.