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25-10 Industrial Communication Systems<br />

LIC<br />

102<br />

LIC<br />

103<br />

TIC<br />

104<br />

V101<br />

T102<br />

V102<br />

V104<br />

T103<br />

LOH<br />

101<br />

T101<br />

P101<br />

Protect the<br />

pump<br />

LOL<br />

101 FIC<br />

E104<br />

101<br />

Check if enough water<br />

Pump<br />

water<br />

Pump<br />

value<br />

Measure<br />

water flow<br />

Flow<br />

rate<br />

PIDcontrol<br />

FIGURE 25.4<br />

Example of messages between real-time capable control units.<br />

25.5 Industrial Ethernet as the “Silver Bullet” for Future<br />

Process Automation Communication Needs<br />

In the last few years, Ethernet moved more and more from the office/Internet world into the <strong>industrial</strong><br />

automation world. This trend began with connecting control devices with high-level <strong>systems</strong> like ERP<br />

and SCADA <strong>systems</strong>, which was followed by replacing controller networks providing less time critical<br />

controller-to-controller <strong>communication</strong>. Currently, Ethernet moves also into the fieldbus world. The<br />

advantage of uniform data access and exchange on all levels of a production system and between all<br />

components is one of the reasons for this trend. Especially, ERP <strong>systems</strong> and production planning and<br />

scheduling system are <strong>systems</strong> for which it is believed that they can benefit most of this uniform data<br />

access. This should enable such <strong>systems</strong> to get a more complete view of a plant’s state and therefore allow<br />

a better planning and scheduling of the production.<br />

However, Ethernet by itself is not capable of fulfilling the needs of typical fieldbus <strong>systems</strong>.<br />

Therefore, different enhancements and changes to Ethernet were developed. Examples for such<br />

Ethernet-based fieldbus technologies described in this book are as follows: EtherCAT, Powerlink,<br />

Profinet, and ModbusTCP. The main problem of many of these <strong>systems</strong> is that they apply major<br />

changes to the protocols and system behavior of what is commonly known as Ethernet. In the end,<br />

many of the described <strong>systems</strong> have just the wiring of Ethernet (e.g., Profinet IRT). Furthermore, as<br />

all of the <strong>industrial</strong> Ethernet protocols use different methods, they cannot be used in parallel on the<br />

same wire or operate together. Therefore, we are again in the same situation the fieldbus diversity<br />

has brought us. So, finally the great expectations especially from the higher production system level<br />

could not be met. The current state of <strong>industrial</strong> Ethernet is as such that we have a new bunch of high<br />

bandwidth fieldbuses.<br />

© <strong>2011</strong> by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC

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