Ethernet and Fieldbus

as the basis of an
E-Commerce Solution
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 By Steve Mackay
IDC Technologies

tech@idc-online.com

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● International training & consulting
company in industrial engineering.
● Emphasis on Industrial Areas.

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● Operations in United States, Canada,
United Kingdom, Ireland, Southern
Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
Singapore, Malaysia.

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 OBJECTIVES OF
WORKSHOP

Examine how the Fieldbus and Ethernet &

TCP/IP industrial communications systems
are facilitating the development of an E-
Commerce System.

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 Topics
● Introduction
● Ethernet and TCP/IP
● Fieldbus and DeviceNet
● Ethernet versus Fieldbus
● E-Commerce
● Conclusion

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 INTRODUCTION

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● Rapid development of industrial open
networks
● TCP/IP and Ethernet - industrial
● Fieldbus and DeviceNetworks
» Foundation Fieldbus
» Profibus
» DeviceNet

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 Impact of Internet

● TCP/IP and Ethernet very popular in

industrial systems
● Connection to the Internet for
industrial process control systems
● ====>>>>> E-Commerce

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 E-Commerce

● Computers exchanging commercial

information
● Suppliers tied closely to your site
● Customers tied closely to your site

● No one is going make a quick $ from

it….but you will SAVE money...

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 ETHERNET & TCP/IP

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 A Local Area Network

● is a communications system
● is constrained within an
organisation
● is privately owned
● covers about 2 to 3 km maximum
● will include:

●workstations, servers &

peripherals
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 Open Systems
Interconnection
● Closed systems lead to
difficulties in system integration
● Committed to one supplier
● Lack of competition
● Open systems make for
efficiency
● Costs are reduced
● Integration is much easier
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 The OSI Reference Model

Applicatio
n
Presentatio
n
Session

Transpor
t
Network

Data Link

Physical

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 IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD

● Commonly known as “Ethernet”

● Developed by Xerox in 1970s
● Bus based network
● Three standards
●Ethernet 1 - obsolete
●Ethernet 2 - DIX consortium
●802.3 CSMA/CD

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 802.3 CSMA/CD

● Four different physical media

●Thick coaxial cable
●Thin coaxial cable
●Twisted pair
●Fibre Optic cable
● Baseband and broadband options
● Normally operates at 10Mbps

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 UTP 10Base T System

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 Ethernet Switches

● With star topology, each node has

a dedicated connection
● Switches allow multiple sessions
of 10Mbps
● Traffic is switched between i/p
and o/p ports to create sessions

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 Switch Types

● Two different switching

technologies
● Cut through (“on the fly”)
●Filters and forwards packet on
reading DA
●Cannot perform any value added
processing
● Store & forward
●Can support rate adaptation
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●
 Switch Types

Segment Switch
Server

Private LAN Switch

Server

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 Ethernet Switches
A B C D

Ethernet Switch

E F G H

¨Node B wants to communicate with node E

¨Frame sent to switch - reads Dest address and sends out to port
¨D now wants to talk to G at same time
¨Second 10Mbps bitstream established

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 Fast Ethernet
Systems

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 100-MBit Ethernet

● Defined in IEEE802.3u standard

● Uses CSMA/CD media access
● Ethernet frame format
● High speed interface on three
media types
●100Base-TX for Cat 5 wiring
●100Base-FX for Fibre Optic
●100Base-T4 for Cat 3 wiring
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 Internetworking with TCP/IP
Host A Host B

Application Application

Transport Transport
ROUTER

Internet Internet Internet

Network Network Network

Interface Interface Interface

Physical Network

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 InterNetworking
London - England

IBM Compatible
Laser printer
IBM Compatible
Network

IBM Compatible IBM Compatible

IBM Compatible

INTERNET CONNECTION
Sydney - Australia

Apple LaserWriter
Mac Classic
Mac Classic

Network Backbone

IBM Compatible
UNIX Server

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 Internetworking with TCP/IP

● Networks generally do not exist in

isolation, and need to be
interconnected
● An increasingly popular suite of
protocols to handle this is TCP/IP
● TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
● Provides a reliable transport service
● IP - Internet Protocol
● Provides a Datagram delivery service
● These are only two in a wide selection
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 FIELDBUS &
DEVICENETWORKS

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 Transparent Communication from
Sensor/Actuator up to Area Controller

Factory
level Ethernet/TCP/IP Area TCP/IP/Ethernet
Controller
Bus Cycle PC/VME
Time
< 1000 ms
CNC

Cell
PROFIBUS-FMS
Level

Bus Cycle VME/PC

Time PLC DCS
< 100 ms

Field
PROFIBUS-DP PROFIBUS-PA
Level

Bus Cycle-
Time
< 10 ms
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 PHYSICAL LAYER WIRE MEDIUM
H1 & H2 APPLICATIONS
ETHERNET
HSE… High Speed E t h e r n e t
• 100 MBps
•Not released as yet
SERVER GATEWAY

H2

H1… Lower Speed Fieldbus

BRIDGE SCADA PLC PLC
• 31.25 Kbps
• Replaces 4 to 20 mA
• 2 - 32 Devices H1
• Power & Communications
• Intrinsically Safe
• Twisted-pair
• 1900 m length

ANALYZER

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 PLAYING LEGO

FIELDBUS CASCADE CONTROL

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 ETHERNET vs FIELDBUS

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 Ethernet is cheap but
…problems
● Non deterministic
● Robustness for electrical interference
● Hazardous Environment
● No Loop powering
● Ethernet and TCP/IP have hi overhead
● Triple Redundancy

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 IDC

APPLICATIONS TO
E-COMMERCE

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 Issue with E-Commerce
Site

● Speed
● Security
● Reliability
● Scalability
● Ease of Management

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 Steps to Create a site

● Create an externally accessible Web

Site via the Internet
● Extranet switch for trusted partners
and employees
● Integrate ERP/Production and Call
Centre

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 CONCLUSION

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 Conclusion

● Industrial Data Communications

networks are indispensable in
creating a truly open automation and
process control system interfacing to
the outside world and thus creating a
truly effective E-Commerce Solution
for your company.

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