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Siemens' self-configuring network supports the future development of industrial communication
2020-04-18
· This innovative project optimizes the installation, testing, and upgrading of machine and factory networks.
· Devices can automatically assign addresses.
· Automatically adapt the network at all stages of the factory lifecycle.
· Typical applications are simplified, such as device replacement or integration of mass production machines.
· Remote services become simpler and more secure.
At Hannover Messe 2015, Siemens will showcase an early-stage innovative project called "Effortless Communication": its goal is to simplify the installation, testing, and upgrading of machine and factory networks. To achieve this, address assignment is shifted from the engineering system to the automation devices. Thus, devices can automatically assign addresses without the need for a central entity like an address server. Additionally, the system can simplify the deployment of remote maintenance services and enhance their security. The project results may be incorporated into the creation and operation of future production networks.
Compared to office applications, network applications in automation have a larger number of servers. For example, each networked I/O module represents its own server, capable of providing and receiving process data while continuously supplying diagnostic information. This is the intention of the "Effortless Communication" project: through this approach, users can call technical device names of network components such as controllers and I/O devices instead of hard-to-remember network addresses and paths. Address assignment is automatically handled in a decentralized manner by the actual automation devices. The ability to automatically configure network settings allows users to replace or add devices at any time in a "plug and produce" manner without any special on-site engineering or network expertise. It will even be possible to flexibly embed all factory components into manufacturing scenarios. Therefore, during the commissioning and certification of new factory components, independent operation can be completed without any additional network equipment. Then, the automation device operating system supports automatic network renumbering of isolated networks to adapt to the factory network addressing.
This innovative project greatly benefits device operators or system integrators: through automatic address assignment, they can integrate mass production machines into the network as needed without having to debug network settings for each individual mass production machine. Here, the automatic facility ensures safe parallel operation of mass production machines by effectively avoiding duplicate addresses.
Furthermore, accurate and error-free automatic network address assignment can simplify remote maintenance services and enhance their security: the address assignment system supports automatic installation of security facilities such as remote service access points or firewalls. Therefore, firewall rules can be designed to be simple, straightforward, systematic, and extremely strict.
18 Apr,2020
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