In the previous lesson we began describing how to use a Profinet-DP network within your control system. As discussed, you are going to place a remote station on the factory floor that will be used with your remote field devices.
That remote station is going to need an I/O station communicator. There are many products offered for use by different manufacturers. For our purposes we are going to be using the ET200 that is offered by Siemens.
Depending on the application you are using, there are different models to choose from. Check out this lesson where we discuss the ET200.
The previous lesson had us discussing Profinet-DP networks and the ET200. This lesson continues where we last left off with instruction on how to set up the network within the STEP7 environment.
We start by describing the many components we are going to have within our control system. We will w...
In this lesson we are going to continue discussing the Profinet-DP network software setup. In the previous lesson, we showed you how to add the Profinet-DP network to the control system configuration and that is where we will start in this lesson. We will talk about some different devices that ma...
This is part 3 of our lessons pertaining to Profinet-DP networks and how to set them up in the software.
In the previous lesson, we talked about what may be connected to the Profibus-DP network, wherein the catalog the device can be located, Profibus addresses, and how to work with addresses ...
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