POSSIBILITES OF COMMUNICATION ENHANCEMENT FOR EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM

Abstract

Urgency of the research. Modern trends in the industrial communication focus on implementation of new communication protocols, wireless data transfer at reduced costs. Communication part of every automation system is crucial and reliability of these systems is very important. Target setting. When designing automation systems and solving connection of different devices, developers have to solve the various aspects as addressing, data rates, data security, etc. The modern Ethernet based communication protocols and data transfer technologies provide significant cost and work reduction. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. To prepare this paper, different publicly available datasheets and experimental solutions were analyzed as well as conclusions of our previous experiments were used to create the knowledge base about this research topic. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Since there are many different communication solutions, wired and wireless too, and every manufacturer of industrial devices provides its own best solution for communication there is large amount of solutions. This paper is insufficient to describe them all. The research objective. In this article, different communication and connection technologies were analyzed for future im-plementation to an existing experimental production system at the Department of Automation, Control and Human-Machine Interactions. The statement of basic materials. To integrate an existing model of industrial production system to the concept of the Industry 4.0 it is necessary to implement the newest communication technologies. Using Ethernet-based communication protocol, such as Profinet with combination of IO-Link provides good basis to solve this issue. Conclusions. The proposed paper provides possibilities of extending the communication interface for the FMS-500 experimental system. This system is currently based on programmable controllers S7-300 and the PROFIBUS communication inter-face. The planned rebuilding of the assembly system involves the exchange of programmable controllers, the expansion of communication protocols and the integration of new functionalities.