NETWORK MANAGEMENT

TOOLS
Network Management tools enable commissioning, monitoring
& troubleshooting of devices.

The NIS2 directive requires that companies subject to it have solutions

for monitoring their resources

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TOOLS

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SOFTING NETWORK MANAGEMENT
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 smartLink
Asset Management Access Points

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Asset Management for HART devices

Your customer has an automation installation, and he wants to use

a centralized asset management system. He has HART devices
connected to controllers and remotes IOs from this vendors.
 smartLink SW-HT and smartLink HW-DP
You can sell smartLink to this customers

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smartLink SW-HT

Asset Management
 Access to the HART devices connected to controllers or remote
Application
IOs of Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Schneider Electric, R.Stahl or
Turck

smartLink
HART-IP  PLC independent access to Ethernet remote IOs – 2nd channel
SW-HT • Optional routing of the communication to the Allen-
EtherNet/IP or PROFINET
Bradley and Schneider Electric remote I/Os through the
controller
Allen-Bradley or Schneider HART
 Integration without interference with the operation of existing
Electric installations
 Transparent HART communication over HART-IP
HART • No limitation on the supported HART commands
 Easy deployment of the application which is realized as Docker
container
2nd Channel? smartLink! • Delivered with a VM for easy installation on Windows PCs

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smartLink HW-DP
Asset Management
Application
 Access to HART field devices connected to
PROFIBUS remote IOs of Siemens, ABB,
Pepperl + Fuchs, R.Stahl, Turck or Wago
HART-IP  PLC independent access to PROFIBUS DP
smartLink
HW-DP
networks – 2nd channel
PROFIBUS DP  Integration without interference with the
operation of existing installations
HART
 Transparent HART communication over
HART-IP

2nd Channel? smartLink!

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Asset Management for PROFINET networks

Your customer has an automation installation with PROFINET and

wants to use a centralized asset management system.
 smartLink HW-PN and smartLink SW-PN
You can sell smartLink to this customers.
!! BUT !!
Emerson AMS Device Manager will support PROFINET only from
the upcoming V15
Support for ABB FIM will be added in the upcoming V1.03 and
needs to be integrated with a future release of ABB FIM

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smartLink HW-PN & smartLink SW-PN
Asset Management
Application
 PLC independent, secure access to
PROFINET networks – 2nd channel
 Integration without interference with the
PROFINET FDI CommServer (OPC UA)
PROFIBUS FDI CommServer (OPC UA)
operation of existing installations
HART IP
smartLink
PN
 Access to PROFIBUS DP and PROFIBUS PA
PROFINET field devices connected to PROFINET
PROFIBUS proxies
APL PROFIBUS
PROFIBUS
Field
Switch
PA Proxy  Transparent PROFINET and PROFIBUS
DP Proxy
communication over the integrated FDI
HART
PROFIBUS
DP
PROFINET
APL
PROFIBUS
PA communication server
 Product available as hardware appliance
and software module
 Access to HART devices connected to
2 Channel? smartLink!
nd
PROFINET remote IOs will be available in
Q4 2024
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Case Study – smartLink – Oil & Gas

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 plantPerfect Monitor

Network monitoring

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plantPerfect Monitor
 Monitoring of PROFIBUS and PROFINET networks and devices
 Online live view on the networks and devices
 Information stored in a database to allow historic views
 Easily detect the changes happened

Centralized plant network monitoring

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Use case: PROFIBUS monitoring
plantPerfect  Live inventory of all connected PROFIBUS devices
Monitor
• PROFIBUS address, manufacturer, device type
MQTT • I&M data - tag, revisions, …
smartLink
HW-DP
• Module data
PROFIBUS DP
 Health monitoring of all connected PROFIBUS devices
• PROFIBUS diagnostic messages
• NE107 health status
 Network statistics
• PROFIBUS devices connected to the bus
• Network and device bus interface statistic values
 Historic information
• Changes of the monitoring information over time

Features planned for plantPerfect Monitor but not included in V1.00

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Use case: PROFINET monitoring
plantPerfect  Live inventory of all connected PROFINET devices
Monitor
• PROFINET address, manufacturer, device type
MQTT • I&M data - tag, revisions, …
smartLink
• Module and sub-module data
PN
PROFINET
 Health monitoring of all connected PROFINET devices
• PROFINET diagnostic messages
• NE107 health status
 Network topology
• Physical network topology of the connected
PROFINET devices
 Network statistics
• Network and device interface statistic values
 Historic information
• Changes of the monitoring information over time
Features planned for plantPerfect Monitor but not included in V1.00

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dataFLOW solutions in the plant topology

Engineering Plant Asset Management

ETHERNET

PAC/PLC Switch

PROFINET Devices

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Main points to remember

Device Connectivity? 2nd Channel? dataFLOW!

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Some questions?

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Dziękuję

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