Application Of Industrial Ethernet Switch In Industrial Automation

Industrial automation is the mainstream trend in the development of global industrial manufacturing industry at present, and the market of a series of automation equipment industry has expanded rapidly. A complete automatic production line includes PLC, system control software, industrial robots, etc. These components need to be connected with industrial Ethernet to form a unified whole. Industrial Ethernet is an efficient local area network. It is an important part of the modern industrial automation production system. Whether it is sensor data transmission, production equipment control, etc., all of these require Ethernet to form a basic control network. This is also one of the important reasons why industrial Ethernet is more and more widely used in automatic production.

Industrial automation is the core element of Industry 4.0. In an intelligent factory, not only the individual equipment is required to be intelligent, but also all facilities, equipment and resources in the factory are required to realize interconnection to meet the requirements of intelligent production and intelligent logistics. Through industrial Ethernet and other communication networks, everything inside and outside the factory is interconnected to form a new business model. There are a large number of sensors, PLCs and human-machine interfaces in the industrial automation production and detection system. The industrial Ethernet switch is mainly used for monitoring, managing and collecting the detection number of spare parts. These sensor PLCs and human-machine interfaces are connected to the network, and then transmitted back to the control room. Therefore, a compact and cost-effective industrial ethernet switch is required.

In addition, the installation, operation and management of the new system must be compatible with the original PLC control system as much as possible, and future upgrading and expansion should also be considered. The Ethernet solution composed of industrial ethernet switches not only meets the reliability and stability of the system, but also meets the requirements of data transmission in short distance and long distance, and is also applicable to the scalability of the system in the future.

In the entire industrial automation system, it is required to transmit the PLC, camera and other terminal data of the production line to the monitoring center, and the network is required to have strong redundancy backup capability, and can recover quickly after a failure. Our industrial Ethernet switches, support redundant wide voltage 12V~48V DC power input, with high strength IP40 shell and industrial EMC design, with ring network redundancy function, self-healing time <20ms, can fully meet the system requirements.

The current growth of the industrial Ethernet switch market, which was largely dependent on discrete automation applications, is gradually affected by its application in infrastructure and process automation. Infrastructure has a wide range of applications, from the implementation of smart grid, especially substation automation, to intelligent railway, highway and other transportation projects are increasingly relying on industrial Ethernet. The development of industrial Ethernet technology, the large demand of downstream traffic, power and other users, the continuous enrichment of product supply in the middle and low end markets, and the wider application of  managed switches are the direct reasons for promoting the development of the market. In the domestic industrial Ethernet switch market, power and rail transit are the key application fields of industrial ethernet switches. These new opportunities, together with the upcoming Internet of Things, are boosting the double-digit growth of the industrial Ethernet switch market.

Industrial Ethernet switches are used in industrial automation systems and usually serve some national key engineering projects and major technological transformation projects of large enterprises. These key projects and major technical transformation projects have high requirements for the bidding manufacturers and their product brands and past performance in consideration of the technical performance, safety and reliability of the products. Therefore, it is difficult for new enterprises that have not made outstanding achievements in major projects and major technological transformation projects and whose brands have not been recognized by the market to expand their market share in a short time.

Shenzhen Houshi Network is a company that can provide complete data communication products in the field of industrial automation communication. Its product line extends from Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet network equipment to network connectors, media converters, etc., which are used in different field bus systems. Its industrial Ethernet switch products are widely used in various industries, including power and transportation.