Title :
Industrial LANs with real-time communication servers
Author :
Marino, Perfecto ; Poza, Francisco ; Nogueira, J.
Author_Institution :
Vigo Univ.
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 on 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 until sixteen scara robots and thirty programmable logic controllers
Keywords :
client-server systems; data communication; flexible manufacturing systems; industrial manipulators; local area networks; microcomputer applications; network servers; programmable controllers; protocols; real-time systems; black box; client/server architecture; field bus cards; flexible manufacturing plants; industrial LANs; low cost PC; multiport cards; open connecting equipment; programmable logic controllers; real-time communication servers; scara robots; shop floor communications networks; Communication industry; Communication networks; Communication standards; Costs; Flexible manufacturing systems; Joining processes; Network servers; Protocols; Prototypes; Robots;
Conference_Titel :
Factory Communication Systems, 1997. Proceedings. 1997 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4182-1
DOI :
10.1109/WFCS.1997.634291
