Title :
Design of communications equipment for factory LANs
Author :
Marino, Perfecto ; Poza, Francisco ; Nogurira, J.B.
Author_Institution :
ETSI Telecomunicacion, Vigo Univ., Spain
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 sixteen SCARA robots and thirty programmable logic controllers
Keywords :
client-server systems; factory automation; field buses; industrial robots; local area networks; microcomputer applications; programmable controllers; protocols; robots; SCARA robots; client/server architecture; communications equipment design; communications server; factory LAN; field bus card; fieldbus network; flexible manufacturing plants; low cost PC; multiport card; open connecting equipment; programmable logic controllers; serial controllers; shop floor communications networks; standard protocols; Communication equipment; Communication networks; Communication standards; Costs; Flexible manufacturing systems; Joining processes; Network servers; Production facilities; Protocols; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, 1997. ISIE '97., Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Guimaraes
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3936-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.1997.651784
