so you have a remote i o network that's
running fine but comprised of older
hardware that's been discontinued
spares are becoming harder to find and
there's just not enough down time to
upgrade your old system with a new
ethernet ip based control system this
upgrade will require you to pull
ethernet cables and fiber all throughout
your current running line rewire all
your control hardware and reprogram and
commission the control system
if everything does not go to plan
there will be production loss from the
extended downtime you'll have to do it
someday and it's going to hurt but wait
with the innovative migration solutions
from prosoft technology it's now easier
to migrate to the latest platform than
you ever thought possible
introducing the new ethernet over belden
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bluehose industrial media converters
now you can transmit and receive
ethernet ip and remote i o data over
your existing belden bluehose cable
a logic system can be deployed on top of
the existing remote i o infrastructure
allowing users to upgrade their legacy
io drives hmis and other end devices in
a phased manner
upgrading of your control system can now
be done one node at a time during
scheduled downtime saving time and money
we'll now walk through a typical
migration process it's broken up into
five phases each of which can be carried
out at your convenience
for applications with older allen
bradley drives and panel views on remote
i o a prosoft technology an x2
rio migration gateway can be deployed
the annex 2 translates the rio protocol
to ethernet ip and back again
this will allow you to upgrade to new
power flex drives and panel view plus
six terminals that use ethernet ip
without modifying your plc program
the next phase is to install the
ethernet ip to belden bluehose
industrial media converters the
industrial media converters can be
installed easily during scheduled
downtime as they require no
configuration
each network has one master media
converter device and one or more slave
media converters one for each drop point
on the network
the converters use a trunk drop topology
to transport data between master and
slave units
each converter has three ethernet ports
as well as one drop and one trunk port
the drop connection is used for the
local remote io network segment and the
ethernet ports are used for the local
ethernet network segment
these two signals are combined into a
complex waveform in the media converter
and then sent out through the trunk
connection on the new trunk line
there can be up to thirteen hundred feet
between drops without a repeater and
with repeaters it's possible to reach
the ten thousand foot maximum cable lane
once wired in your remote i o system is
running just as before but your bluehost
cable now supports ethernet as well as
remote i o data a control logic system
can be configured and the plc5 program
converted
while your remote i o system continues
to run as normal
when you have your program converted a
1756 rio module can be used in the
control logic system to take control of
the remote i o devices during regularly
scheduled downtime
if there are problems with the program
you can simply switch back to the old
plc-5 and not skip a beat reducing the
risk of prolonged downtime
once the new control system is running
smoothly you may begin upgrading your
remote i o nodes to ethernet ip devices
one at a time as schedule downtime
permits
as each remote i o node is
decommissioned you end up with spares
so now you don't have to wait for an
extended scheduled downtime to upgrade
your remote i o system
by the end of this phase your entire
control system is running on current
hardware
that's how easy it is to implement a
phased migration plan for your entire
system using prosoft technology ethernet
to belden 9463
bluehose industrial media converters
and it's important to note that you can
implement some or all of these phases or
jump straight to an ethernet based
system the choice is yours
to learn more visit our website at
www.prosoft.technology.com
or give us a call
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