Be open to new technologies but without compromising security.
Dr. Krauss, BASF, says a whole lot more in his interview on NAMUR Open Architecture at the <a href="http://www.namur.net/index.php?id=208&tx_ttnews[tt_news]NAMUR Annual General Meeting 2016[/ot-link]. However, this short statement captures it in a nutshell. NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA) has meanwhile sparked off a debate on new requirements for the architecture of automation systems.
Watch the video statement of Dr. Krauss!
Yokogawa’s vision for open architecture
Dr. Helget, MD Germany, presented Yokogawa’s vision for open architecture in the keynote under the motto “Solutions for Optimization in the Global Process Industry”.
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Watch keynote-clip!
A start has been made
Yokogawa has already taken the first step towards open architecture. Version 2 of the Unified Gateway Station (UGS2), unveiled in September 2016, manages without the native VNet/IP interface card which was previously a must and uses standard Ethernet technologies instead.
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Security comes first
VNet/IP technology is used in accordance with IEC 62405 without any security compromises. In addition to the large number of communication protocols which are supported (OPC, Modbus, Ethernet/IP and so on), the performance parameters make a particularly big impression:
- Redundancy*
- Online capability
- Seamless switching time (less than 1 second*)
- 256 third-party systems / UGS
- 16 OPC servers / UGS
- 600,000 data points / UGS
- 450,000 communication data points / UGS
- Throughout of 6400 data / second
*Configuration with 2 UGSs
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