Setting up a Work Centre Based on the Profibus Network

Abstract

Information communications networks, and especially their industrial versions (field networks), are an inseparable element of contemporary control systems. They enable pieces of modern industrial equipment to be coupled into a common system. In the case of older-generation equipment (universal one-stand CNC machine tools, manipulators, robots), their extension and integration in either dispersed or centralized control system is possible. As a result of modernization, it is possible to create a production line that will be built based on classic CNC machine tools and operated by manipulators or robots using network solutions and PC computers.