2. WHAT ARE NETWORK PROTOCOLS?
A protocol is a standard set of rules that allow electronic devices to
communicate with each other. These rules include what type of data may be
transmitted, what commands are used to send and receive data, and how
data transfers are confirmed.
WHAT ARE PROTOCOLS?
Network protocols are sets of established rules that dictate how to format,
transmit and receive data so computer network devices -- from servers and
routers to endpoints -- can communicate regardless of the differences in their
underlying infrastructures, designs or standards.
3. INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK
PRTOCOLS
In the environment of the automation of industrial processes, the communication
between the devices that intervene in the control of these systems, is a key issue
to allow not only a correct operation, but also the supervision and control of these
processes.
The communications between devices are carried out through the use of
different industrial communications protocols.
Industrial communication is used interconnect isolated automated systems and
hence to form a fully automated industry.
This step has allowed, in addition to a more efficient management of production
processes, a better availability of information from field devices, centrally at the
plant level.
4. How do instruments and controllers
communicate in a process control?
Has it ever came in your mind how instruments and controllers communicate?
We know for a fact that communication may come wired or wireless but with the
vast variety of process instruments nowadays how do this instruments work when
connected to controllers of a different make.
Communication protocols is what we call the digital message formats and rules
required to exchange messages in or between computers and instruments. This
is required in process automation.
5. The IEC 61784 standard was introduced in the
early 2000s which includes a total of nine
protocol “profiles”:
FOUNDATION Fieldbus
CIP
PROFIBUS/PROFINET
P-NET
WorldFIP
INTERBUS
CC-Link
HART
SERCOS.1
6. FOUNDATION fieldbus
An all-digital, serial, two-way communications system that serves as the base-level
network in a plant or factory automation environment. It is an open architecture. –
Fieldbus Foundation.
CIP (Common Industrial Protocol)
Encompasses a comprehensive suite of messages and services for the collection of
manufacturing automation applications – control, safety, synchronization, motion,
configuration and information. Can be treated as application layer common to
DeviceNet, CompoNet, ControlNet and EtherNet/IP – ODVA, Inc.
Profibus
A standard for fieldbus communication in automation technology used by Siemens.
7. PROFINET IO
The basic idea of CBA is that an entire automation system can be divided into
autonomously operating subsystems.
Interbus
A serial bus system which transmits data between control systems (e.g., PCs, PLCs,
VMEbus computers, robot controllers etc.) and spatially distributed I/O modules that
are connected to sensors and actuators (e.g., temperature sensors, position switches).
CC-Link Industrial Networks
An open industrial network that enables devices from numerous manufacturers to
communicate. It is predominantly used in machine, cell or process control applications
in manufacturing and production industries, but can also be used in facilities
management, process control and building automation.
8. HART Protocol
(Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) – an early implementation of Fieldbus, a
digital industrial automation protocol. Its most notable advantage is that it can
communicate over legacy 4-20 mA analog instrumentation wiring, sharing the pair of
wires used by the older system.
SERCOS interface
A globally standardized open digital interface for the communication between
industrial controls, motion devices (drives) and input output devices (I/O).
9. THE MOST COMMONLY USED NETWORK PROTOCOL IS:
ETHERNET/IP
EtherNet/IP is an industrial network protocol that adapts the Common
Industrial Protocol to standard Ethernet.
Ethernet/IP (Ethernet Industrial Protocol) is a network communication
standard capable of handling large amounts of data at speeds of 10 Mbps or
100 Mbps, and at up to 1500 bytes per packet. The specification uses an open
protocol at the application layer. It is especially popular for control
applications.
Ethernet/IP was estimated to have about 30% share of the industrial ethernet
market in 2010 and 2018.
10. The applications of EtherNet/IP are:
Medical field
Pump applications
Bottling and Packaging plants
Printing Press
Automotive industry