Application of Industrial Switch in Metallurgical Automation

The vigorous development of Industrial Switch and industrial Ethernet technology has promoted the process of factory informatization. Today's automation system is demanding that all equipment be networked, the industrial network be as flat as possible, and a single network be connected from the top to the workshop, which can reduce the cost of equipment installation, personnel training and inventory; Compared with the traditional field bus, the advanced performance of industrial Ethernet has great attraction for factory automation, such as voice, video, remote diagnosis and management, computer system integration, Internet functions, complex and flexible topology and security management.

The information system requires the entire network system to be able to effectively handle a large amount of data, including control data transmission, convenient system configuration, system diagnosis capability, transparent routing management, etc; The rise of ERP and MES systems has challenged the data exchange and sharing mechanism within enterprises. The traditional automatic control system and network structure can no longer meet the needs of users. The industrial switch+industrial Ethernet mode will become an indispensable part of modern factory automation system.

Metallurgical and other industrial environments have very high requirements on the reliability of industrial control, and often require industrial switch equipment to operate in an environment with strong electromagnetic interference, severe vibration, dust, ultra-high temperature or ultra-low temperature for a long time. Industrial automation system is developing towards distributed and intelligent real-time control, while industrial Ethernet technology provides an open infrastructure to meet the urgent needs of industrial control field for unified communication protocols and networks, which has been widely promoted and applied, and will become the development direction of industrial control communication in the future.

Metallurgical automation system requirements

Real time acquisition of data from equipment networking and workstation;

Record the data and results used in the production process;

Collect the information related to workshop implementation, and then analyze it by the system. Through the system report, the production progress, goal achievement, product quality, and the utilization of people, machines, and materials on the production site can be presented in real time, making the entire production site completely transparent.

Our industrial switch solution for Metallurgical automation

In the metallurgical industry MES system network, we adopt gigabit industrial Ethernet switch to build the core network between the convergence points of each workshop:

1. The production network planning includes the central machine room and the main control room of each workshop. A number of main convergence points are set up, and gigabit industrial Ethernet switches are used for networking.

2. The topology adopts ring network redundancy for link backup. Any Fibre Channel failure on the gigabit ring network will not affect the communication of the entire gigabit ring network.

3. The gigabit electrical port connects the MES server, the 100M optical port and the 100M optical port ring assembly of each station in the workshop.

100M industrial Ethernet switch is used to build the internal communication network of each workshop, and IS series 100M industrial Ethernet switch is used to build the ring network inside the workshop. The actual sites are reasonably distributed, and the data between each workshop is logically isolated through VLAN virtual LAN technology to ensure the security of communication.

Our industrial switch can provide reliable and stable multi service communication in the worst environment, providing communication guarantee for the effective operation of industrial control industry. The IS series industrial switch adopts dynamic reconfiguration and repeated programming technology, and is designed with good electromagnetic compatibility and shock resistance. Since it was put into the market, it has been reliably applied in petrochemical, rail, highway, high-speed rail, environmental protection, mining and other harsh environments.

Industrial Ethernet can be said to have developed new standards and new guidelines for network control in manufacturing industry. Nowadays, China's metallurgical automation control system takes Ethernet as the wind vane. The practicality, operability and security of Ethernet can meet the requirements of different customers and manufacturers to the maximum extent. Ethernet also has the characteristics of low cost, high efficiency, high intelligence and high scalability. It is precisely these characteristics that attract more and more manufacturers. It can be seen that the leading role of metallurgical automation control system is industrial switch+industrial Ethernet.