Design of communications equipment for factory LANs
Perfecto Mariño, Francisco de la Poza, J.B. Nogurira · 2002
Shop floor communications networks are evolving towards the increased use of open connecting equipment, that meets standard protocols, under a client/server architecture. An implementation of such a communications server, based on a low cost PC with multiport and field bus cards, is presented. The first prototype has been designed as a black box transparent to flexible manufacturing plants, connecting sixteen SCARA robots and thirty programmable logic controllers.