Phoenix Contact Seminars

Phoenix Contact Industrial Ethernet, and Industrial Wireless seminars were about hardware and network topology solutions used by Phoenix Contact in many industries including automotive projects.

Industrial Ethernet keynotes:
- Industrial Ethernet devices provide reliability (works in wide range of temperatures, torque and other hazard environments)
- Sales of industrial Ethernet devices increased from 1 million in 2004 to 3 million in 2007, and projected 7 millions in 2009
- Most used protocols are Modbus TCP/IP and Allan Bradley DF1
- Prefer to use managed switches with web based configuration
- Expendable managed switches provide flexibility to replace wire cable with fibre optic
- Spanning Tree protocol is used to remove collisions and allow rearrange network in minimum 20 sec on root switch failure
- Rapid Spanning Tree protocol has decrease this time to 1-2 sec on such failure
- Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree protocol available in managed switches
- Network topology is crucial in industrial applications (use rings as segments)

Industrial Wireless keynotes:
- If you can run cable - use cable
- Bluetooth required less configuration support over 802.11
- Bluetooth is more secure than 802.11
- Bluetooth is cost effective (cheaper than 802.11)
- Antenna is crucial point in wireless connection
- Consider use of Phoenix services to optimize bandwidth, antenna and overcome noise factors

Industrial Automation keynotes:
- Benefits of IEC 61131 standard
- PC Worx platform to program PLC
- OPC as wide used technology
- HMI and SCADA