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Automotive
Robust and secure from the control layer to the robot
Car manufacturers in AIDA (the German car manufacturers’
automation initiative) are the driver behind the use of
Industrial Ethernet in the manufacturing sector, as they
clearly prefer the use of PROFINET for communication
between machines and equipment parts. To make the most
savings in modern communications structures, Industrial
Ethernet in the automotive industry is homogeneous, from
corporate management level down to production.
New production plants in North American car production are
also being exclusively automated using Industrial Ethernet.
Here the real-time Ethernet protocol EtherNet/IP is used.
This, in the same way as PROFINET and other protocols,
means there are different requirements for the connector
systems used and the active network devices.
Extremely harsh environmental conditions – such as may be
found where industrial robotics are used, for example – place
high requirements on the components used. Cabling needs
to be torsion resistant and there are increased EMC demands
placed on plug-in connectors and active devices. For these
application elds, Weidmüller offers a complete product
range consisting of copper and bre-optic connectors and
passive hand-tools that are specically designed for the
requirements of cabling robotic systems.
The use of active devices with powerful redundancy
mechanisms is needed to prevent network failures.
Weidmüller’s managed switches meet these requirements
with their particularly fast recovery time of under 20 ms when
an error occurs.
Intended use for Industrial Ethernet