conference prospectus and descriptions of sessions. - ODVA

October 16 - 18, 2012 

Marriott Evergreen Conference Resort 

Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA 

CONFERENCE PROSPECTUS 

The Industry Conference and Annual Meeting is open to 

both members and nonmembers of ODVA 

and is attended by leading automation suppliers, 

OEMs and end users who come to learn the latest business and 

technical trends in ODVA technologies. 

Use this Conference Prospectus as your guide 

to help you select the right sessions for your needs, 

and be sure to register by September 14, 2012 on 

www.odva.org

CONFERENCE PROSPECTUS AND 

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS 

as of September 13, 2012 

This Conference Prospectus provides dates, times, and descriptions of the various 

sessions comprising ODVA’s 2012 Industry Conference & 15 th Annual Meeting. 

Register today to attend the conference via the Event Registration Form currently 

posted on www.odva.org. Once you have registered for the Event, please reserve 

your seat at specific sessions through the supplementary 

Session Registration Form. 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 

The following schedule is subject to revision. 

Session Description Audience Track Availability 

EtherNet/IP 

Implementor 

Workshop #36 

(8:00 am – 5:00 pm) 

Developers 

of 

EtherNet/IP 

products 

N/A 

ODVA has established its Implementor 

Workshop series as the premier tool to 

help developers get products to market 

quickly. Each year, a series of 

workshops is held to get developers up 

to speed on the application of CIP 

technology to EtherNet/IP. With the 

guidance of a knowledgeable leader, 

each participant can learn from others 

and also help increase the knowledge 

base of all participants. 

Open but 

requires 

advanced 

registration 

(separate 

from 

conference 

registration) 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 


EtherNet/IP 

Implementor 

Workshop #36 

(8:00 am – 12:00 pm) 

Developers 

of 

EtherNet/IP 

products 

N/A 

ODVA has established its Implementor 

Workshop series as the premier tool to 

help developers get products to market 

quickly. Each year, a series of 

workshops is held to get developers up 

to speed on the application of CIP 

technology to EtherNet/IP. With the 

guidance of a knowledgeable leader, 

each participant can learn from others 

and also help increase the knowledge 

base of all participants. 

Open but 

requires 

advanced 

registration 

(separate 

from 

conference 

registration) 

Special Interest 

Group (SIG) 

meetings 

(Times vary; see 

session registration 

form for details) 

SIGs are the technical working groups 

that develop enhancements to the ODVA 

Specifications as well as guidelines and 

recommendations for the application of 

ODVA technologies. These SIG meetings 

are restricted to active SIG participants, 

at the discretion of the SIG chair. 

Participation Agreements for joining 

must be received and accepted by ODVA 

no later than October 1. Participation 

Agreements cannot be accepted onsite. 

Eligible 

ODVA 

members 

N/A 

Open only 

to 

registered 

SIG 

participants 

from eligible 


member 

companies. 

In the evening of Tuesday, October 16, ODVA will host a Meet & Greet Reception. 

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 


Technical Review 

Board Update 

(8:00 am – 9:30 am) 

ODVA’s Technical Review Board (TRB) 

regulates the technical programs of the 

corporation and reviews the technical 

activities of the corporation. The TRB 

authorizes Special Interest Groups 

(SIGs) and oversees the establishment 

of standards and specifications. Attend 

this session to hear directly from TRB 

members about the latest updates to 

ODVA technologies under consideration. 

All Technical Open 

EtherNet/IP Quick 

Start for Vendors 

Developers Training 

Course 

(8:00 am – 4:30 pm) 

Enabling 

Technologies Pavilion 

(Open all day, 

but staffed from 

9:30 am – 10:00 am 

and from 

2:45 pm – 3:30 pm) 

Specifically designed to help engineers 

starting the process of creating an 

EtherNet/IP device, EtherNet/IP Quick 

Start for Vendors is a one-day training 

course that discusses product 

functionality, implementation 

approaches, product design, and testing, 

plus gives an in-depth review of 

The EtherNet/IP Specification. 

Enabling Technologies Pavilion is a forum 

for providers of enabling technologies to 

display and discuss their products with 

conference attendees. No registration is 

required to stop by this pavilion! 

(Pavilion will also be held on Tuesday 

evening at the Meet & Greet.) 


(Attendees 

requested 

to commit 

to full day) 

All Marketing Open 

Developments in 

Conformance Testing 

(10:00 am – 11:00 am) 

This session will detail the latest 

enhancements to the conformance test 

suite and will outline the rules of the 

conformance testing process. Attendees 

will learn how to avoid development 

mistakes that can delay timely product 

launch, and will leave with a solid 

understanding of the steps to help 

conformance testing run smoothly. 

Developers 

of products 

built to 


technologies 

Technical 

Open 

Technical Track Paper 

Presentations 

(Times vary and are 

listed on the session 

registration form; all 

are between 

10:00 am – 5:00 pm) 

With the theme of “Technology & 

Innovations,” the Industry Conference 

Technical Track is a forum for ODVA 

technology experts to present papers 

that investigate the application of ODVA 

technologies to solve a diverse range of 

challenges. See below for a list of 

papers. Additional papers may be added 

prior to the event. 







Improvements in 

Ethernet Standards to 

Further Reduce Latency 

and Jitter 

The independence of 1) the data plane of 802.1Q bridges; 2) the quality of service 

(priority) features of same; and 3) the compatibility of many of the control 

protocols utilizable at Layer 2; together mean that it is possible to construct a 

Layer 2 network upon the concept of a Network Core, a set of VLANs running a 

single control protocol, but sharing a physical layer and an IS-IS-based protocol 

foundation, with other Network Cores. The result is a network that can be 

optimized for several purposes simultaneously. This can provide a structure 

around which the many competing industrial real-time control protocols can further 

reduce jitter and latency, even while being used together, to their mutual 

advantage. 

EtherNet/IP over IPv6 - 

Evolution, not 

Revolution for the 

World's Leading 

Industrial Ethernet 

Variant 

Make CIP Safety Your 

Safety Protocol 

Extracting Energy Data 

from MODBUS Devices 

Using CIP 

In this paper we explore the technical impact of migration to IPv6 for CIP 

Technologies and its implications for modern EtherNet/IP devices. The paper will 

make proposals for the inclusion of IPv6 in EtherNet/IP together with IPv4. The 

paper will explore the architectural implications for end users of EtherNet/IP 

technologies when operating in a hybrid EtherNet/IP over IPv4 and IPv6 

environment. The paper will outline areas where The EtherNet/IP Specification 

must be enhanced and will make proposals for technical implementations of these 

changes for consideration by the ODVA community. The paper will also highlight 

the IPv6 development practice by making dual stack IPv4-IPv6 prototypes of 

EtherNet/IP configuration software, scanner and adapter devices. The paper will 

explore the steps that a number of companies have gone through in constructing a 

multi-vendor proof of concept for partial dual stack IPv4-IPv6 implementation of 

EtherNet/IP. The paper concludes that the future proof design of EtherNet/IP 

ensures that migration to IPv6 can be managed incrementally and gradually by our 

customers, and at their own paces. 

The use of fieldbuses in automation systems instead of hard wired interaction 

between components provides a number of well-known advantages like lower 

costs, more flexibility, new functionalities and higher dynamics. For interactions 

which are needed to fulfill safety requirements, hard-wired connections are still 

being used in parallel to the fieldbus wire. In order to reap the aforementioned 

advantages for the case of safety connections, a safety protocol needs to be 

integrated into the fieldbus communication layers. The inherent failure rate of 

fieldbus protocols is generally much higher than that allowed in international 

standards for safety applications. This paper will focus on the steps that are 

required to adapt the safety protocol CIP Safety to a non-CIP fieldbus. It will 

explain in detail which steps with respect to specification, TÜV involvement, and 

conformance testing software modification have to be taken to make CIP Safety 

the safety protocol of a fieldbus. This paper will use the example of successful the 

CIP Safety integration on top of the existing sercos III communication layer. 

This paper will explore the definition of a device that would extract MODBUS 

energy data from various energy devices and place it into common CIP energy 

objects. Ideally, this would be best accomplished for legacy MODBUS products 

without any modification to the device, but it will be shown why this is not always 

possible. Use of Electronic Data Sheet (EDS) or Extensible Markup Language (XML) 

files to define the MODBUS ® device is also considered. Also considered are 

modifications that could be made to MODBUS energy devices that would enable 

direct interrogation to determine its data formats and mappings. In addition to 

defining where the data is located within a MODBUS energy device, there is the 

challenge that data may not be in the same format. Data conversion between the 

various formats will also be discussed. 






Machine-To-Supervisory 

Communication 

Framework Based on 

OPC UA 

The requirements on machine integration have grown continuously over the last 

decades. The variety of fieldbus standards and the complexity of a heterogeneous 

field device landscape resulted in high implementation efforts for the application. 

This paper describes a conceptual framework for machine-to-supervisory 

communication done via protocol- independent OPC ® UA objects integrating sercos 

and CIP based field device networks, based on an OPC UA server-client-network 

architecture via standard TCP/IP protocols. This approach allows interoperability 

between machine and supervisory systems and reduces the implementation time 

and costs. 

Advances in Robust, 

Easy-to-Install Fiber 

Cabling Systems to 

Support EtherNet/IP 

Traditional fiber cabling systems that support high bandwidth enterprise 

applications are being extended into industrial plant floor applications. At the 

machine control level, current needs for easy to deploy, robust fiber solutions that 

support 100Mb/s communications exist. For many EtherNet/IP applications 

requiring fiber, the use of currently available cabling systems presents unique 

challenges regarding robustness and deployment ease by factory personnel. These 

challenges tend to inhibit the use of fiber and increase Total Cost of Ownership 

(TCO). 

Recently, several fiber manufacturers have introduced Hard Clad Silica (HCS) fibers 

that have high bandwidth, are environmentally robust and address installation 

concerns. These fiber variants enable rapid and simple LC connector field 

termination with a short learning curve and simple hand tools. ODVA standards 

recognize the LC connector in both sealed and unsealed applications and high 

volume transceiver manufacturers have standardized the small form factor LC as 

the Media Device Interface of choice for 1000Mb/s and beyond channels. This 

paper addresses current 100Mb/s applications with EtherNet/IP devices as well as 

the need for easy to deploy higher-bandwidth links requiring 1Gb/s. 

Single Wire Coexistence 

of sercos and 

EtherNet/IP 

Reference Architectures 

for Industrial 

Automation and Control 

Systems 

The CIP Motion Peer 

Connection 

CIP Safety for Drives 

Request for standardized high level functionality (e.g., functional safety) has led to 

the use of the CIP Safety protocol on sercos. CIP Safety enables vendors to reuse 

their development efforts and users to rely on widely supported standards. Rexroth 

is now developing a solution that allows EtherNet/IP and sercos devices to be 

operated over a single Ethernet cable. The controller will contain a combined sercos 

master and EtherNet/IP Scanner which will allow devices of both networks to be 

combined in system applications. This paper will discuss the proof of concept for 

this solution. 

This paper will describe a set of Reference Architectures for Industrial Automation 

and Control Systems currently in use by member companies that promote use of 

standard Ethernet network functions in a hierarchical model. These architectures 

are designed to provide necessary levels of resiliency, scalability, security 

(including secure remote access) and high availability. 

The ODVA Distributed Motion SIG is currently defining a Peer to Peer CIP Motion 

connection that will allow for the easy distribution of real-time motion control 

information among multiple controllers and multiple device types. This capability, 

available to a multi-vendor industry, will ensure CIP’s place as the leading 

technology in the industrial marketplace for peer to peer motion control for 

electronic line-shafting and camming applications. 

The implementation of safety functions on networks for drive applications is 

emerging as a critical requirement for industrial applications. This paper will 

propose the application of safety networking for use in systems deploying drives. 






Integrating IO-Link 

Devices into CIP 

Networks 

IO-Link is an intelligent point-to-point connection system for command, 

configuring, and control of simple sensors and actuators. This paper will examine 

use cases for integrating IO-Link devices into a CIP Network and propose a 

technical approach for integration of IO-Link data into CIP. 

Optimization of 

Machine Integration 

(1:30 pm – 2:30 pm) 

In 2011, ODVA launched a new long 

term initiative aimed at addressing the 

following key challenges faced by user 

and machine builders when integrating 

machines: 

All Marketing Open 

 

 

 

 

There is a proliferation of 

automation networks in machine 

automation. 

The useful life of machine assets 

is long, which results in many 

installations with legacy 

networks. 

Machine builders are motivated 

to provide a high-value machine 

which is differentiated from their 

competition on price and 

performance relative to asset 

turnover, not overall equipment 

effectiveness. 

To maintain machines, 

manufacturers need to give 

OEMs secure, remote access. 

The Technical 

Approach to 

Optimization of 

Energy Usage 

(OEU): 

A "Day in the Life" 

of Energy 

(3:15 pm – 5:00 pm) 

In this session, learn about the initial 

approaches underway to help user and 

machine builders to start addressing 

these challenges in systems using ODVA 

technologies. 

Since November 2011, ODVA has 

released two specification enhancements 

that introduced four new CIP objects to 

accomplish energy awareness and 

control of devices into and out of low 

energy states. This session will provide 

an overview of the new energy objects 

along with a virtual demonstration of a 

manufacturing operation that puts the 

technology to good use. 


In the evening of Wednesday, October 17, ODVA will host a Conference Reception & Dinner. 





THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012 


ODVA 15 th Annual 

Meeting of 

Members 

This meeting is also open to nonmembers 

of ODVA. Presentations to be made 

include, but are not limited to: 

All N/A Open 

(8:00 am – 12:00pm) Report on the Activities of the 

Association 

Introduction to Endress+Hauser as a 

Principal Member of ODVA 

Perspectives from Industry: 

View from an OEM 

Perspectives from Industry: 

View from a System Integrator 

Industrial Control System Security: 

Implications for Users and Vendors 

Looking Ahead to the 16 th Term 

The event will conclude on Thursday, October 18 with a hosted conference lunch.

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