Industrial Ethernet Seminar Series

Preliminary Agenda

Registration: 09:30 am
Start of Seminar: 10:00 am
End of Seminar: 04:00 pm

09:30 am

Registration

10:00 am

Unmodified Ethernet for Industrial Automation?
  • Ethernet Features - An Overview
  • Benefits of Ethernet for Automation
  • Limiting Factors of Ethernet as Fieldbus Replacement

10:45 am

Ethernet on the fly: the EtherCAT Functional Principle
  • Functional Principle + Performance
  • Network Architecture + Topology

11:15 am

Coffee Break

11:30 am

EtherCAT Features and their Benefits
  • Cost Advantages
  • High Availability
  • Safety over EtherCAT
  • Simple to Implement

12:15 am

Lunch Break

01:15 pm

ETG - a Worldwide Community
  • How to get involved: Working Groups and Committees
  • Current Developments
  • EtherCAT Adoption Rate

02:00 pm

Competitive Advantages for Machine Builders through EtherCAT

02:30 pm

Coffee Break

02:45 pm

Migration from Classical Fieldbus Systems
  • Best Practice
  • Cost advantages

03:00 pm

EtherCAT Applications in India

03:15 pm

Why do Automation Experts choose EtherCAT?
  • EtherCAT Applications Worldwide

03:45 pm

Summary and Discussion, Q&A

04:00 pm

End of Seminar

 

All presentations will be held in English language. Speakers: Fieldbus- and Ethernet-Experts of the EtherCAT Technology Group and supporting company Beckhoff India.