Roadshow EtherCAT | Industrial Ethernet Seminars - South Africa 2012
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  Industrial Ethernet Seminars South Africa 2012  
   

 

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Registration: 9h30
End of Seminar: 16h00

Speakers: Fieldbus- and Ethernet-Experts of the EtherCAT Technology Group and supporting companies.
Note: The order and titles of presentations may vary.

09h30 Registration, Welcome Coffee
   
10h00 Unmodified Ethernet for Industrial Automation?
| Ethernet and Internet Technology Features - An Overview
| Benefits of Ethernet for Automation
| Limiting Factors of Ethernet as Fieldbus Replacement
Martin Rostan, Executive Director, EtherCAT Technology Group
   
10h45 Ethernet on the fly: the EtherCAT Functional Principle
| Functional Principle + Performance
| Network Architecture + Topology
Martin Rostan, Executive Director, EtherCAT Technology Group
   
11h15 Table Top Exhibition, Coffee Break
   
11h30 EtherCAT Features and their User Benefits
| Cost Advantages
| High Availability
| Safety over EtherCAT
| EtherCAT Technology Group
| EtherCAT Adoption Rate and Market Situation
Martin Rostan, Executive Director, EtherCAT Technology Group
   
12h15 Lunch Break
   
13h15 Competitive Advantages for Machine Builders through EtherCAT
| More throughput, better efficiency, lower costs, better quality – more success!
| Practical Examples: how EtherCAT users benefitted from adopting EtherCAT
Martin Rostan, Executive Director, EtherCAT Technology Group
   
14h15 Migration from Classical Fieldbus Systems
| Best Practice
| Cost advantages
Martin Rostan, Executive Director, EtherCAT Technology Group
   
14h30 Table Top Exhibition, Coffee Break
   
14h45 Beckhoff and EtherCAT
| Short Introduction of the company that invented EtherCAT
| XFC: Extreme Fast Controls
| Beckhoff in South Africa
Beckhoff RSA Team
   
15h15 EtherCAT in South Africa
| Application Examples
Beckhoff RSA Team
   
15h45 Summary and Discussion, Q&A
   
16h00 End of Seminar

EtherCAT Technology Group | Ostendstr. 196 | 90482 Nuremberg, Germany | info@ethercat.org | www.ethercat.org
 

 

Venues:

Nov 13, 2012 | Johannesburg
Hakunamatata

Nov 14, 2012 | Cape Town
Ruslamere

Nov 15, 2012 | Durban
Tala Game Reserve

 

 

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