Born OpenSAFETY, first bus independent field and secure protocol
November 8, 2010
A recent study by the Institute of international renown Independent Market Research Institute (IMS Research) discussed the exchange of information between systems of industrial Ethernet. According to this study, Ethernet/IP gets most with 30%, followed by Profinet with 28%. 22% Of the applications use Modbus TCP/IP, 11% of Powerlink, well situated in applications in real time communication protocol. Other systems get together the 9%.
The current OpenSAFETY solutions offer the potential for 63% of the applications. Therefore, the software opens up the possibility of having a safe standard system, especially since the development of technology-based security is very expensive and the manufacturers and operators of the plants can reduce their development through OpenSAFETY efforts.