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News Release from: ODVA
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 September 2006
Network specification to be published
shortly
The first edition of the CompoNet Specification is scheduled to be published in the next publication cycle of the CIP Networks Library and associated network specifications.
ODVA has announced that the first edition of the CompoNet Specification has been approved by its Technical Review Board and is scheduled to be published by ODVA in the next publication cycle of the CIP Networks Library and associated network specifications These specifications include EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet ControlNet, CIP Safety - and now CompoNet
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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CIP, the Common Industrial Protocol, is a single, media-independent protocol that provides the interoperability and interchangeability essential to open networks and open systems.
Complementary to the entire family of CIP Networks - DeviceNet, ControlNet and EtherNet/IP - CompoNet meets the requirements of applications using large numbers of simple sensors and actuators by providing high speed communications with configuration tools and combining this with efficient construction, simple set-up and high availability - all on a single network.
Further, CompoNet offers an advanced physical layer that minimises signal degradation and transmission delays, while providing the user with a flexible network architecture offering a range of datarates - 4, 3 and 1.5Mbit/s and 93.75Kbit/s - and overall network lengths up to 1500m with repeaters.
"CompoNet will provide users with a network that is easy to configure and maintain, with comprehensive built-in error detection functions", states Katherine Voss, Executive Director of ODVA.
"This makes CompoNet a high availability network optimised for production efficiency".
"CompoNet allows the user to send and receive bit and byte sise data, efficiently and rapidly, to and from simple sensors and actuators", states Jeff Jurs, a member of ODVA's Technical Review Board since 1998.
"Combined with CIP's distinctive advantages providing the ability to configure and collect data on the plant floor, information can be available throughout the enterprise".
The development of the CompoNet Specification has been conducted by the ODVA CompoNet Special Interest Group and consists of participants from leading control suppliers, including Omron and Rockwell Automation.
The next step in creating the open standard for this new network technology is the release of the ODVA Conformance Test for CompoNet devices.
ODVA expects to see vendors start offering CompoNet Conformance Tested products in 2006.
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