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Dear customer,
with this form you can order your personal and free-of-charge SIMATIC NET Quick Start CD, which will supply
you with numerous sample programs and projects for Industrial Communication. J ust fill out and send per mail or
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Please send me a free-of-charge sample of the SIMATIC NET Quick Start CD.


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Please answer the following questions regarding your plant/installation:


1.1. Which of the following areas of work would you be most
likely to assign yourself to?
1.2. How many employees does your company
employ?
PLC configuration
PC configuration
Network administration
Systems planning

Decision-making
Purchasing
Development
Integration
1 50
51 1000
More than 1000

1.3. Which main sectors of industry do you work in? ______________________________________________
2. General information on your configuration and project:
2.1. For which case do you want to use the Quickstart CD?
Expansion of an existing system/application
New system/application
Other (e.g. training, in your Sales department)

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2.2. What SIMATIC NET products are you currently using and which do you plan to use in the future
S5 communication processors
S7 communication processors
Communication processors for PG/PC
Network transitions (IE/PB link, IE/ASI link ...)
Switches (SCALANCE X, ESM, OSM, ELS)
Wireless products (SCALANCE W)

Security produkts (SCALANCE S, SOFTNET Security
Client)
passive network components (electrical cables, optical
cables, connectors)
AS-interface products
SINAUT products
SIMATIC NET PC software

2.3. Which of the following end systems are you using and how many of them?
Amount:
SIMATIC S5 ________
SIMATIC S7 ________
Other PLCs ________
PC-based PLCs ________
IPC (workstation/server/host computer) ________

Anzahl:
Standard-PC/Notebook
(workstation/server/host computer) __________
Embedded PC
(workstation/server/host computer) __________
OP (Operator Panel) __________
Field devices __________
3. PC-based systems
3.1. Which of the following backplane/card formats are you using ?
ISA
PCI 5V
PCI 5V/3,3V
PCI 3,3V
PCI Express
PCMCIA 16 Bit
PCMCIA 32 Bit (Cardbus)
Expresscard
3.1. What operating systems are you using?
Windows NT
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP 64

Windows Server 2003
Windows XP embedded
Windows CE
Linux
Linux embedded

Linux (64 Bit)
Other:
Planned for the future:
____________________________
4. Physical aspects of your network
4.1. What media are you using to network your current systems/Are you planning to network your
systems?
Industrial Ethernet/PROFINET
PROFIBUS

AS-Interface
Industrial Wireless
4.1.1. Industrial Ethernet/PROFINET
4.1.1.1. What transmission rate do
you use/do you wish to use?
4.1.1.2. What transmission medium do you use/do you wish to use?
10 MBit/s
100 MBit/s
1 GBit/s
10 GBit/s
ITP Industrial Twisted Pair
RJ 45 Twisted Pair
Plastic fiber optic cable
PCF fiber optic cable
Glas fiber optic cable
Singlemode
Multimode
50/125
62,5/125
Other :
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4.1.1.3. What kind of prefabricated cables do you
prefer?
4.1.1.4. On what level do you use Industrial Ethernet/
Do you wish to use IE ?
Prefabricated cables (with connectors
On-site fabrication of cables
Control Level
Field Level

4.1.1.4.1. Which topology do you use on the control
level?
4.1.1.4.2. Which topology do you use on the field
level?
Line
Star
Ring
Meshed network
Line
Star
Ring
Meshed network

4.1.1.5. Who decides on and installs the topology
and devices for the network infrastructure of your
automation systems?
4.1.1.6. How many ports do the network components
used have on average?
Office/IT department
Automation department
2 4 ports
4 8 ports
8 12 ports

12 24 ports
more than 24 ports
4.1.2. PROFIBUS
4.1.2.1. Which transmission rates do you
use/do you wish to use?
4.1.2.2. Which transmission medium are you using/do you wish
to use?
187,5 kBit/s
500 kBit/s
1,5 MBit/s
12 MBit/s

Electric bus cable
Plastic fiber optic cable
PCF fiber optic cable

Glass fiber optic cable
50/125
62,5/125
4.1.2.3. On what level do you use Profibus ?
Control Level

Field Level
4.1.2.3.1. Which topology do you use on the control
level?
4.1.2.3.2. Which topology do you use on the field
level?
Star Ring Line

Star Ring Line

4.1.3. AS-Interface
4.1.3.1. What higher-level bus system (if any) is your AS-Interface bus system connected to?
PROFINET via SIMATIC NET components
Ethernet system of another manufacturer:
Manufacturer: _______________________________

PROFIBUS
Other field bus sysgtem
Manufacturer: _________________________________
5. Communication channels
5.1. Industrial Ethernet
5.1.1. What application do you use to communicate?
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S5-compatible communication (send/receive)
S7 communication
PG/OP communication
Other: _______________________________
IT communication
Web-Server
E-Mail Client
FTP Client/Server
XML

5.1.2. What communication services/protocols do you use for this?
ISO
ISO on TCP (TCPI/IP +RFC 1006)
TCP/IP native
UDP

PROFINET IO
PROFINET CBA
Other: ________________________________

5.1.2.1. How many nodes are connected to an I/O controller in your system on average?
Less than 10 Between 10 and 30 Betwenn 30 and 60 More than 60
5.1.2.2. Do you use real-time communication? 5.1.2.2.1. What reaction times are typically necessary?
PROFINET
PROFINET with isochronus realtime
(IRT)
Other:
________________________________
Greater than 100 ms
Greater than 10 ms
Between 1 ms and 10 ms
Between 1 ms and 250 s
Less than 250 s

5.2. PROFIBUS
5.2.1. What communication services/protocols do you use?
FMS
DP
PG functions

S7 functions
Send/Receive, PLC-PLC, FDL
Other
6. What kind of diagnostics do you use?
Local diagnostics Vor-Ort-Diagnose
Alarm contact
Web diagnostics

HMI systems (Which ones?)

Network management (Which ones?)

Other (Which?)
7. Telecontrol
7.1. What type of network do you use for telecontrol tasks in your installation?
Dedicated line
copper cable
fiber optic cable
Ethernet based network (TCP/IP)
Lokal IE network
Router
DSL modem
Radio

Radio
with time-slot procedure
without time-slot procedure
Dial-in network
analog telephone network
ISDN
mobile radio (GSM)

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7.2. What stations do you use?
Control center
ST7 cc Amount: __________
ST7 sc Amount: __________
S7 Amount: __________
S5 (ST1) Amount: __________

Node station
S7 Amount: _________
S5 (ST1) Amount: _________
End station
S7 Amount: _________
S5 (ST1) Amount: _________
8. Security
8.1. What are the risks that pose a danger to your network from your point of view?
Access violations
by internal personnel, unintended
by internal personnel, intended
by external persons (hacker attack)

Viruses, worms, trojans
High communication load
Other
What risks??
___________________________________________
8.2. What products do you use to protect your network?
none
Virus scanner
Firewall

Communication encryption (VPN, SSL, other...)
Other:
_______________________________________
9. Praise and criticism
9.1. What can we improve for you?





9.2. What do you especially like about our products?






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