Industrial Ethernet to Remain Flexible!
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Your markets change rapidly Rely on SIMATIC NET for Industrial Ethernet to remain flexible! Industrial Ethernet Answers for industry. Industrial_Ethernet_GB.indd 1 15.04.2008 8:49:17 Uhr 2 Industrial_Ethernet_GB.indd 2 15.04.2008 8:49:32 Uhr Scope Future-proof data networks. One of the keys to improved industrial productivity. Enterprise level and control level. Ethernet was advanced in terms of Safety Integrated and wireless via Combined for added value. industrial suitability, availability, PROFINET reliability, real-time capability, robust Controlling your machines, monitoring connection technology as well as for easy Joint structures and technologies have your production lines, coordinating all operability without expert IT knowledge. improved the efficiency of engineering, your production areas – mastering these With a share of over 80 %, Ethernet is the operating and service tasks. The tasks would be unthinkable today network number one in the industrial utilization of web technology, for without automation and respective data landscape today. Thanks to its TCP/IP example, today forms an integral part of communication. An open and integrated protocol (transmission control protocol/ numerous solutions. With the adaptation system technology has proven its Internet protocol), Ethernet has created of Ethernet to Industrial Ethernet, the numerous advantages in all industrial the basis for global networking via the specific conditions of industrial processes sectors. However, requirements are Internet. can be fulfilled – also the required continuously increasing: there is an protection and safety functions. increasing need for greater data The SIMATIC NET from Siemens is the throughput at the factory control level ultimate network driver of this Industrial With Safety Integrated, SIMATIC NET especially, e.g. due to the increase in Ethernet evolution – creating networks offers personnel and plant protection – device numbers, higher data volumes, designed for industry. and wireless as well! more data-intensive tools, such as visualization, Web applications, Voice We`re setting trends Industrial Wireless LAN and the link of over IP, multimedia applications or the your local networks to WAN with Intranet/ desire for centralized data management. • The success story of Industrial Ethernet Internet provides you with access to To be able to meet these demands also in began in 1985, when Siemens information across your enterprise both the future and thus hold your ground in introduced the industrial SINEC H1 globally and 24/7. SIMATIC NET with its the market, all corporate processes must based on IEEE 802.3. This was followed Industrial Security capability protects be combined more efficiently. The in 1989 with the optical variant SINEC your networks against undesired access vertical integration, i.e. a linkage from H1FO. from outside your enterprise and from the fieldbus level through the control • From 1985 onwards, the buzz word for undesired manipulations. level on the shopfloor to the enterprise the office level was Fast Ethernet with management level is a consequence of a baud rate of 100 MBit/s. Some 10 this realization. years later, Siemens offered the first Fast Ethernet switches for industrial Industrial Ethernet. use. Networks for industrial demands. • The era of Fast Ethernet at the field level began in 2004 with PROFINET, In 1982, Ethernet established itself as a the Industrial Ethernet Standard from standard for office networks with its first Siemens. products for business. • In 2007, after the successful Siemens is one of the pioneers who introduction of a data rate of 1,000 translated the advantages offered by this MBit/s for the office level, the era of standard also to industrial processes. Not Gigabit Ethernet at the industrial only the capacity available for the control level also began at Siemens. exchange of large data volumes predestined Industrial Ethernet for its application in the production industry. 3 Industrial_Ethernet_GB.indd 3 15.04.2008 8:49:48 Uhr Ethernet-based communication from the office was introduced initially at the control level. Industrial Ethernet then came to be applied in the field with the Efficiency automation standard PROFINET. Field devices from a variety of applications have been successfully integrated horizontally since then. Industrial Ethernet. Integrated connection to the enterprise Integration made simple – with SIMATIC NET. level One of the main application advantages of Industrial Ethernet is the possibility of consistent networking – starting in the field level through the control level and on to the enterprise level. The above advantages are even further supple- mented by the utilization of new IT technologies such as wireless LAN or web servers. This way, system networks can be linked effortlessly to other networks, e.g. an office LAN, Intranet or the Internet. This facilitates fast and direct access to all information required companywide. 4 Industrial_Ethernet_GB.indd 4 15.04.2008 8:49:51 Uhr Specific requirements for all levels (IP routing) across the networks, e.g. Fail-safe and simple connection access to a Web server. The access in this technology If a vertically integrated network is to be case is regulated with a configurable IP established, the utilization of a joint access list. And what do you get? You get The FastConnect system for Industrial protocol will not be enough. Both active data-intensive communication to the Ethernet from SIMATIC NET now supports as well as passive components must meet control level and fast response times for structured wiring as per EN 50173 also specific requirements in factory and the lower-level field devices via for Gigabit Ethernet at the control level. logistics environments, which partially PROFINET. considerably differ from office applications. Network topology, network Harsh industrial environments management, engineering and diagnostics and the application of IT Automation components are employed standards for linking to the enterprise locally in control cabinets or even outside level are key here. control cabinets with respectively high degrees of protection. Dust, humidity, Separated but still talking extreme temperatures, impact and vibrations represent challenges for all It can happen that the field level and the products in industrial environments. The control level are physically separated network components must be designed from one another: this allows load to take the flack. decoupling, but the two levels still have to communicate! That‘s no problem for the new communication processors for SIMATIC S7 controllers. The launch of separate network connections for Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet on one module allows the use of IT services 5 Industrial_Ethernet_GB.indd 5 15.04.2008 8:49:57 Uhr Performance Gigabit Ethernet. Custom-built for high data volumes. 6 Industrial_Ethernet_GB.indd 6 15.04.2008 8:50:08 Uhr Field level. In addition, Voice over IP, video streaming Integrated link to the enterprise level The fastest response is wanted. or other multimedia applications give rise to higher data volumes. The vertical link to the enterprise level Increasing bandwidth is not a pressing can be realized with a layer-3 switch or issue at the field level at present. A range In contrast to the field level, the focus is by the use of conventional IT standards. of different fieldbus applications can be on bandwidth at the control level. integrated horizontally for transmission Response times cause less concern. They rates of up to 100 Mbit/s without can happily be on the order of 10 to difficulty. 100 ms. Large data telegrams of up to 1,500 bytes for file transfers are a daily The best example is PROFINET, the open occurrence. Industrial Ethernet Standard for the fieldbus. Gigabit Ethernet. SIMATIC NET does the job at the control level. Control level. More bandwidth going forward. You want more performance for your system bus? You need maximum network Broadband backbone structures and availability? Then, fast ring redundancy is powerful server connections (e.g. SCADA what you‘re looking for! You need high- servers, file transfer servers) are state of performance server connections, e.g. for the art at the control level. Higher data WinCC? And there is a requirement for throughput rates are in evidence here – adequate bandwidth for challenging due to the increasing numbers of users automation tasks and IP traffic? That‘s no on the network or more data-intensive problem: SIMATIC NET products can deal tools like visualization, vision systems easily with Gigabit applications at the and Web applications. control level! 7 Industrial_Ethernet_GB.indd 7 15.04.2008 8:50:19 Uhr Compact SCALANCE X-300 switches Modular SCALANCE X-400 switches for the flexible expansion Communication processors for with Gigabit and Fast Ethernet ports of electrical and optical ports with the use of media modules SIMATIC S7-300/400 Portfolio The future of your Industrial Ethernet Network. Already reality with Gigabit Ethernet from SIMATIC NET. The Fast Ethernet technology, which has been tried and tested for many years, in connection with switching, full duplex and autosensing together with gigabit-compliant products offer you the opportunity of investing in networks which are ready to meet all future network demands. 8 Industrial_Ethernet_GB.indd 8 15.04.2008 8:50:30 Uhr Marked increase in data throughput Get everything assembled quicker with CP 1623, the PCI-Express board on site with Gigabit: FC RJ 45 Gigabit Plug High system availability is among