Connected to any bus-ABB FBP fieldbus plug

System integrators expect a Plug-and-play (Plug and produce) solution, which isin fieldbus plug ABB fact a demand for industrial communication flexibility, simplification.Thus, you fieldbus plug ABB can quickly connect to any simple bus ABB design and productionsystems products to simplify the whole field bus.

Today's automation applications need not only intelligent products, also need to communicate with each other to realize the function of network, while the bus is undoubtedly the lot of automation equipment and the choice of means of communication. When into a manufacturing plant, business process or energy companies, you is not difficult to find hundreds of thousands of actuators and sensors through the controller of a bus and they communicate.

Complicate many standard industrial bus communication

Among the many bus standard, the national standard has also played an important role in the United States, such as the DeviceNet bus and the foundation fieldbus (FF) HI standard will occupy the dominant position. Among them, DeviceNet is widely used in automotive, material handling and manufacturing industry, and FF in the process control field. The same powerful display skills to the full. Profibus is the standard competitors in these areas, which occupy the absolute market share in Europe. In addition, the Profibus standard in some specific industries has been widely used in applications such as Profibus, DP in the car factory is the case. However, there is a very interesting phenomenon is that the German CANbus bus is also used in the automotive industry but, no matter how you look at the entire market, basically can be divided into two types of process industry and manufacturing industry.

With the industrial enterprises to achieve more efficient production and operation, efficient and continuous investment, intelligent equipment on these different bus are increasing rapidly. The application can bus to the end user enterprise to bring vitality and powerful business processing capabilities, but also to the intelligent device providers to bring a problem: they must we design different products according to the number of bus bus, in order to meet the needs of various bus. In addition, control wiring in field bus is a very time-consuming work, and the installation is not easy to succeed. Such work complexity obviously draw further apart with today's equipment easy operation trend the system integrators can expect to find a plug and play (plug

Simplify the entire fieldbus

It is based on this starting point, ABB company proposed a concept called "field bus plug (plug fieldbus (FBP)", design and production of a can be easy and fast connection with any bus system products to simplify the entire field bus.

Abb is now able to provide with a with bus interface plug-in independent. This means that suppliers will no longer need to re design the products according to the different target bus market. Each of the automated equipment can be connected to the bus by a bus plug-in, and a bus protocol corresponding to have a bus plug-in. For example, to a motor starter can be connected to DeviceNet Fieldbus, you only need to connect the DeviceNet Bus plug-in and the general standard of motor starter can be.

This field bus plug-in can meet all the electronic data transmission needs, it will be connected to the bus on the data into a standard automation equipment can identify the neutral data format.

ABB now can also provide control products, such as standard FBP motor controller and motor starter, these products with a bus independent interface. All installation engineers only need to FBP will have prepared corresponding bus interface connection cable is directly linked to the fieldbus.

FBP fieldbus plug can be completed some special switch and automation equipment and process controller connection. Plugin design is also very simple, one end of which is with regardless of the general properties and the type of bus interface and at the other end is to conform to a specific a bus standard interface. Compact type interface with intelligent electronic conversion device can be neutral device data conversion AS-I or DeviceNet Bus can understand the language form.

Due to the concept of FBP and not to recreate a bus, but the use of existing a variety of fieldbus is an open system, so the FBP can fit any PLC system. The automation equipment is connected to the site bus and power bus, the connector are ready and can be inserted into the standard products, so it does not need to be awakened by a cable cutting, isolation and preparation.