Presentation
Is it just yet another fieldbus? Ethernet conquers instrumentation in process industry.
Time & Location
Thursday: 10.30 to 10.45, Stage 3
Speaker
Tilo MerlinPlatform Manager Instrumentation - ABB
About this presentation
Ethernet is established in factory automation, in particular motion applications, since many years. Anyway, in pro-cess industry, Ethernet stops on the level of controllers and distributed control system. Since invention of APL (advanced physical layer) as one branch of the SPE family of standards (single pair Ethernet), a run of Ethernet in the field has started. Why was APL such an important step and what will and could Ethernet change on sensor/actor level in process industry? What are characteristics of process industry and where it goes in line with nature of Ethernet- and internet connectivity, TCP/IP networks, IoT etc, and where not? Still > 10 years after Stuxnet is cyber security not everywhere adequately considered or systems could become safe, but unusable.
Speaker Bio:
Tilo Merlin is Senior Principal Engineer at ABB Measurement & Analytics division with business area process automation. In his role as platform manager for instrumentation he oversees industrial communication from early technology development up to market introduction of smart field instruments for chemical industry, oil & gas, water/waste water and applications in power generation. He started as embedded software developer for temperature and interface products and was one of the known faces behind fieldbus technology in early 2000. He stands behind many successful ABB products, such as first fully redundant and digital remote I/O system for installation in hazardous area zone 1, first head mounted temperature transmitter with Foundation Fieldbus communication, first industrial autonomous wireless sensor powered by thermal energy harvesting.