VORTEX Report 2022 english

PREFACE
WHAT IS YOUR TYPE?
Evolution instead of a dent: Networking changes the rules of the game
Gazing into the crystal ball: The horoscope for service staff
Dear Customers,
Dear Business Partners,
Dear Potential Customers,
Researching the causes of unstable communication conditions in industrial networks often is a bit like gazing into a crystal ball if there are
no measuring or monitoring devices to visualise the condition. This issue is growing in importance as networking of machines and plants
increases. What is your sign? What's in the stars for you here?
after a brief low in 2020, the German economy is up and buzzing
require? Why do the most critical cases always happen on Friday
again. It has even exceeded the result from 2019 in 2021 already.
afternoons?
Many companies exclude 2020 as an outlier caused by force majeure
when looking at their business performance. Does this apply to the
world of industrial networks as well? Certainly not!
The measurement engineers at Indu-Sol GmbH have been in action
more than 400 times in each of the past three years to answer the
calls of our customers for evaluation of the communication quality
in their field buses or networks by measurements. They keep on producing,
even in times of supposed crisis!
Find a summary of our answers to these and some other questions
concerning the state of fieldbuses and industrial networks on the
following pages. These results are based on data from 487 Indu-Sol
measuring deployments in 2021 across virtually all sectors of the
manufacturing industry as well as from the logistics and water/
wastewater areas.
By the way: Homogeneous, heterogeneous, convergent – what are
the differences between these network structures and how can they
The daredevil
You dispense with condition monitoring in your fieldbus/network.
Your motto is: Issues will make themselves known in
due time!
However, if that does happen just when production
workloads are high, you'll be in for some troubled
times and things may get quite lonely for you speedily.
The security fanatic
You are sealing off your automation system from any
other systems to ensure maximum availability. You
only permit PCs known to you access for diagnostic
purposes.
This may provide a degree of security for the moment.
Nevertheless, you still need to open up to others at
some point. Establish trusting contacts in good time!
Isolated, "strict" automation networks are growing increasingly rare
in the deployments of Indu-Sol measurement engineers. Machines
and plants are often a lot more networked than their operators
realise today. Based on this insight, new service approaches have
become evident in the discussion with Indu-Sol, permitting contemporary
network management within the scope of an integrated view
and/or a long-term support instead of strictly analysing the actual
situation.
be managed? Have a look at our explanatory clip:
www.indu-sol.com/networks-in-transition
I remain, with best wishes for always-sufficient bandwidth
Yours, René Heidl,
The burnt child
You used to operate your plants successfully and
trouble-free for a long time with youthful optimism.
Condition monitoring seemed unnecessary. After all,
everything was working fine! "Suddenly and unexpectedly",
a technology failure brought beads of sweat to
your forehead.
Learn from your experiences and plan the condition
monitoring of your fieldbuses/networks firmly from
now on!
The networking fetishist
You enjoy all the benefits of the new, digital world:
Since all internet-capable devices and machines are
networked with each other and with the WWW, any relevant
data are at your fingertips within seconds. You
only need a few clicks to be able to react accordingly.
However, never forgot that you need to avoid traffic
jams with traffic rules and prevent holes in the asphalt
on your busy data highways!
What does this mean for the planning and design of such networks?
Managing director for technology & support
What level of service do these heterogeneous, convergent structures
Indu-Sol GmbH
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