Keynote: Overview of PI’s current and developing technologies for Industry 4.0
Karsten Schneider, PI Chairman
Does Industry 4.0 require entirely new technologies? How will todays Fieldbuses fit into the new automation paradigm? Questions like these come to mind when we talk about Digitalization and Industrial Automation of the future. Karsten will address them and give an outlook to what PI is planning for the future and how PI’s technology can help to solve new business models.
Process Automation networks with PROFIBUS and PROFINET
Karsten Schneider, PI Chairman
Although Factory Automation widely uses Industrial Ethernet as the main Fieldbus, in Process Automation plants PROFIBUS is still the number one communication system. Karsten will show, why this is not an issue, how users can benefit from PROFINET today and how PI keeps developing PROFINET to meet all needs and requirements of PA including a new Physical Layer (APL) for Ethernet in hazardous areas.
Safety & Security – Not so different from one another
Cliff Martin, Principal Engineer, BAE Systems Submarines
This talk will attempt to illustrate the close link between both safety and security, as well as the reasons they should remain distinct and separated efforts; the speakers will discuss case studies that relate to security incidents with safety impact, discuss practices that may be adopted in this space, before opening a discussion on the means for maintaining effective security and safety programs that neither overlap, nor underlap each other. The talk is aimed at those with an interest in Operational Technology security; whilst it will be open to a range of knowledge and abilities, the emphasis is towards the simple, basic concepts that are often found wanting in relation to cyber-attacks in the industry. More …
Cyber Security – Secure Architecture Challenges for Real Businesses
Cliff Martin, Principal Engineer, BAE Systems Submarines
This talk will draw on the path-of-least-resistance considering lessons from the Ukraine and similar types of attacks, discussing, from an introductory level, good practice secure architecture models and the challenges posed to their implementation by emerging technology and support requirements. Attention will be paid to the way real-world support & operations solutions can unintentionally, or invisibly bridge security enforcement zones, and what this means for your threat model. More …
Ethernet’s copper physical layer finally unveiled
Frederic Depuydt, KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
The components and basic properties of the 100BASE-TX physical layer for industrial wired ethernet, the “invisible” signal coding (4B/5B, scrambling, MLT3), the actual voltage signals on the copper wires, and some signal and packet measurement methods are discussed. Actual measurements in PROFINET networks illustrate signal properties, bits, bytes and messages.
Redundancy for PROFINET networks
Frederic Depuydt & Philippe Saey, KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
When communication fails, PROFINET IO Devices go to their failsafe state. For more critical networks one could consider creating redundant paths in the PROFINET network.
The working principle of industrially available redundant Ethernet technologies such as MRP, PRP and HSR is explained, measurements and some industrial case studies are discussed.
FPGA based error generator for PROFIBUS DP: stress testing your network or diagnostic tools!?
Jean-Marc Capron (Yncréa Hauts-de-France, France)
For training sessions, demonstration sessions by vendors of diagnostic tools and for stress testing of PROFIBUS DP networks, a compact “error generator” tool was developed. The decoding of UART characters, testing for trigger conditions, generation of errors on RS485, the HMI, etc. of an FPGA based error generator is discussed.
Industrial control cases with MATLAB code in PLCs, using PROFINET’s “oversampling” & “I-Device” features
Philippe Saey, KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
PLCs running code generated from MATLAB/Simulink have recently been promoted heavily on the Hannover Messe and SPS Drives. What is this? How do we use the quite unknown oversampling and I-Device features of PROFINET to even extend the application range? Some basics and use cases from industry to inspire you!
Combining data and power: Power-over-ethernet and Power Line Communication
Jos Knockaert, UGent (Ghent University, Belgium)
Smart technologies need both power and communication. Is combining power and data in one cable a feasible and robust solution for your application? In this lecture, the basic ideas, needed technology and standardisation are explained.
Designing & virtual commissioning: co-simulation with Siemens NX
David van Os, UGent (Ghent University, Belgium)
Optimizing machines is often a difficult process. Especially during design, since the machine cannot be tested yet. A realistic virtual twin is created by using Siemens NX (mechanical modelling) and MATLAB/Simulink (motion controller modelling). Through co-simulation, this virtual twin is optimized. Afterwards, the results are implemented on the real machine.
EMC and HFPQ for industrial networks (London seminar only)
Jos Knockaert, UGent (Ghent University, Belgium)
The basis for intelligent automation is communication. The increasing use of communication makes industry increasingly vulnerable for interference. This EMC lecture gives an insight on the disturbance mechanism based on real industrial cases and provides you solutions.
New PI Guidelines for Functional Bonding and Shielding of PROFIBUS and PROFINET (Coventry seminar only)
Peter Thomas, Control Specialists and Chairman of the PROFIBUS and PROFINET International (PI) Training Centres
The ever-increasing use of high-frequency switching devices in industrial automation can result in high-frequency currents circulating in an equipotential bonding network that was not designed for this purpose. The absence of a proven low-impedance bonding network can result in these currents taking alternative and often undesirable routes. Occasionally these will be the shields of industrial network cables such as PROFIBUS and PROFINET that in turn can lead to intermittent communications problems. This presentation will discuss the issues in more detail and will explain the relevance of the recently released PI guidelines “Functional Bonding and Shielding for PROFIBUS and PROFINET”.
IO-Link for the “last metres” communication
Derek Lane – Process Automation Manager – WAGO Ltd (Deputy Chairman – PI-UK)
An overview of IO-Link. The digital point to point solution for sensor actuators and more, typically using standard 3-wire M12 cables extending fieldbuses such as PROFIBUS and PROFINET for the last 20 meters.
Network Diagnostics
Dave Tomlin, Hitex and Andy Morse, AJM
Take a walk through the process of certifying a new PROFINET (or any other industrial Ethernet) against the standards and see how easy it can be, then look at a few gotchas that can easily be avoided by careful planning.
Designing & virtual commissioning: co-simulation with Siemens NX
David van Os, UGent (Ghent University, Belgium)
Optimizing machines is often a difficult process. Especially during design, since the machine
cannot be tested yet. A realistic virtual twin is created by using Siemens NX (mechanical
modelling) and MATLAB/Simulink (motion controller modelling). Through co-simulation,
this virtual twin is optimized. Afterwards, the results are implemented on the real machine.
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