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RickLee
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Allen-Bradley & Profinet

05/07/2012 10:05 AM

Is anybody aware of a Profinet interface for the Allen-Bradley ControLogix Platform?
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Re: Allen-Bradley & Profinet

05/07/2012 3:44 PM

If anybody is, then it will be Allen-Bradley. Have you rung them?

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05/07/2012 10:47 PM

Profinet is basically Profibus over Ethernet. Following is additional information for a Simatic S7 conversion:

http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/ap/logix-ap008_-en-p.pdf

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Re: Allen-Bradley & Profinet

05/08/2012 7:32 AM

Actually, I did some digging on Profinet and found that it is not similar to ModBus TCP/IP. Modbus TCP/IP is simply a Modbus data packet inserted into an Ethernet packet. Profinet works at a much lower foundation of ethernet bypassing the IP layer and all upper layers for communication. The data from ProfiBus must go through a protocol converting gateway to enter ProfiNet.

By the way I did contact AB with no luck as of yet. And due to finding out the nature of ProfiNet, it appears it would not be a reasonable solution for me.

Thanks anyway.
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