Industrial Ethernet Seminar Series

Preliminary Agenda

Registration: 09:30
Start of Seminar: 10:00
End of Seminar: 16:00

09:30

 Registration

10:00

 Unmodified Ethernet for Industrial Automation?
  • Ethernet Features + Overview
  • Benefits of Ethernet for Automation
  • Limiting Factors of Ethernet as Fieldbus Replacement

10:45

 Ethernet on the fly: the EtherCAT Functional Principle
  • Functional Principle + Performance
  • Network Architecture + Topology

11:15

Coffee Break

11:30

 EtherCAT Features and their Benefits
  • Cost Advantages
  • High Availability
  • Safety over EtherCAT
  • Simple to Implement

12:15

Lunch Break

13:15

 EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) - a worldwide community
  • How to get involved: Working Groups and Committees
  • Current Developments
  • EtherCAT Adoption Rate

14:00

 Competitive Advantages for Machine Builders through EtherCAT

14:30

 Coffee Break

14:45

 Migration from Classical Fieldbus Systems
  • Best Practice
  • Cost advantages

15:00

 EtherCAT Applications in the UK

15:15

 Why do Automation Experts choose EtherCAT?
  • EtherCAT Applications Worldwide

15:45

Summary and Discussion, Q&A

16:00

 End Of Seminar

 

All presentations will be held in English language. Speakers: Fieldbus- and Ethernet-Experts of the EtherCAT Technology Group and supporting company Beckhoff UK.

 

EtherCAT Seminar UK


Dundee
March 15, 2011
Manchester
March 16, 2011
Reading
March 17, 2011


Supported by:

Beckhoff