INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

Mobile Diagnosis of PROFINET Networks

Peter Jngling, Softing Industrial Automation GmbH
09 Sep 2014

Sort out Failures with BC-200-ETH

BC-200-ETH
For Electric Failures
Poor cabling and installation
Defective hardware
EMC

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BC-200-ETH:
Check cabling in your PROFINET-Network
wire mating

wire lengths

Profinet: Lmax = 100m

NVP: factor for cable specific
propagation time
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BC-200-ETH:
Check for connected PROFINET devices

Devices
Get overview on all PROFINET devices
in your network
Find PROFINET devices under
Others/Andere
Read for each device MAC-address,
manufacturer, IP-address,
number of sent and received frames

Vitals
Get overview on communication quality
(good / bad frames, downtimes) received
from the network

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BC-200-ETH:
Check traffic on your PROFINET network

Application Protocols
Which protocols are used?

TopTalkers
Which device creates most of the
traffic? -> PN IO Controller

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BC-200-ETH:
Capture Frames on your PROFINET network

Capture Frames
Record and analyse frames
Repeated sending of DCP-frames or
Connect-frames indicates problems

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BC-200-ETH
Standard Automatic Stress Test acc. RFC 2544
PN-IO
controller

check the performance of cabling and internal switches of BC-200ETH

your PN-IO devices
only if network is offline (all PN-masters need to be disconnected)
Throughput

Latency

Stress Test

PN-IO
device

PN-IO
device

PN-IO
device

Frame Loss

Your Benefit:
With this automatic test procedure you can easily prove the maximum
performance of your network (depending on frame size and bit rate) according
to a RFC 2544 standard. You can use this as a kind of official statement!
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 Thank

you for your Interest!

www.softing.com

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