Agenda

Registration: 09:00
Start of Seminar: 09:20
End of Seminar: 16:15

09:00	Registration
09:20	Welcome Actual EtherCAT Market Situation / Adoption Rate Martin Rostan, Executive Director ETG
09:30	Unmodified Ethernet for Industrial Automation? Ethernet Features & Benefits Limiting Factors of Ethernet as Fieldbus Replacement
10:15	EtherCAT Functional Principle: Ethernet "on the fly" Performance & Advantages Network Architecture & Topology
11:15	Coffee Break
11:30	EtherCAT Features and their Benefits Openess Cost Advantages Safety over EtherCAT High Availability Options EtherCAT Technology Group
12:15	Lunch Break
01:30	Competitive Advantages for Machine Builders What are the benefits for end users when switching to EtherCAT?
02:00	Migration from Classical Fieldbus Systems to EtherCAT "Best Practice" Protection of Investment
02:15	Coffee Break
02:30	Experiences with XFC: Ultra-fast, EtherCAT based Communication Prof. Hans Scheitlin, ZHAW at Egerkingen and Zurich // Prof. François Birling Institut d'Automation Industrielle HEIG-VD at Yverdon
03:00	EtherCAT in Switzerland Gerhard Meier // Philippe Monnin, Beckhoff AG
03:20	EtherCAT Applications Worldwide Why do Automation Experts choose EtherCAT? Martin Rostan, Executive Director ETG
04:00	Summary and Discussion, Q&A
04:15	End of Seminar

The main presentation language will be German. In some locations there will be English or French presentations to meet the local langue. Speakers: Fieldbus- and Ethernet-Experts of the EtherCAT Technology Group, Zurich University of Applied Science and supporting company Beckhoff Switzerland.

Yverdon
May 10, 2011
Egerkingen
May 11, 2011
Zurich-Regensdorf
May 12, 2011

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