Aspects of development and engineering of a migration solution for existing heterogeneous Distributed Automation Systems

Author

Hahn, Christian ; Lehmann, Robert ; Wollschlaeger, Martin

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. Sci., Tech. Univ. Dresden, Dresden

fYear

2008

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

20

Abstract

The rise of Industrial Ethernet as network technology for Distributed Automation Systems introduces the need for migration strategies from field bus based systems towards this new technology. This paper discusses the problem of acquiring and translating the information needed for the setup of a PROFINET/PROFIBUS proxy as an example for a migration solution. The diverse technologies defined for device information and representation are examined with respect to this task. Furthermore a solution to facilitate the engineering of such a proxy is presented.

Keywords

industrial engineering; local area networks; PROFINET/PROFIBUS proxy; heterogeneous distributed automation systems; industrial Ethernet; migration solution; migration strategies; Automation; Computer industry; Computer science; Electrical equipment industry; Ethernet networks; Instruments; Investments; Master-slave; Programmable control; Protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2008. ETFA 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1505-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1506-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638362

Filename

4638362