02-11-2017 De: Gerard Domingo

Profibus vs Profinet
Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6MuJxg14J0

Exercise 1

Find the characteristics for each parameter

Parameter Profibus Profinet

CIM pyramid level
Speed
Maximum number of
devices in the network
Type of physical
connection
Wireless transmission?
At level 1, 2 and 3 (field, cell All levels of the pyramid CIM.
and plant level).
Using RS-485 between 9.6 Up to 1 Gbp/s.
kbit/s and 12 Mbit/s.
Up to 126 devices. Up to 256 devices.
RS-485 and infrared. Ethernet cable.
Yes. Yes.
Exercise 2

Look up the meaning of the following words and build up a sentence of example. You can
made up the sentence or just copy a sentence from the video.

Word Meaning Sentence

Dust (Pols) Any material in the form of tiny The UTP cable internally has dust.
particles.
Fieldbus (Bus de Is the name of a family of The ECU (ISO 3166-1 Code of
camp) industrial computer network Ecuador) communicates with the
protocols used for real-time host control system via the fieldbus
distributed control, standardized communication link.
as IEC 61158.
Industrial The overall economic, regulatory, The industrial environment caused
environment social and political conditions that by numerous companies in the
(Entorn affect all participants in an industry has worsened in recent
industrial) industrial market in a similar way years.
and cannot readily be influenced
by marketing.
File (Arxiu) A folder or box for holding loose My father has received a
papers together and in order for correspondence file.
easy reference.
Benefit An advantage or profit gained The tenants bought their houses
(Benefici) from something. with the benefit of a discount
Bandwidth A range of frequencies within a Since kinetic energy increases with
(Ample de given band, in particular that used increasing frequency, the
banda) for transmitting a signal. bandwidth of the low-frequency
regime is limited.
Provider A person or thing that provides In the company next to my house
(Proveïdor) something. there is a leading provider of
personal financial services.
Collision An instance of one moving object Yesterday in the news they said
(Col·lisió) or person striking violently against they discovered new advances in
another. science through a particle collision.
Automation The use or introduction of In my country there is
(Automatització) automatic equipment in a unemployment due to the diffusion
manufacturing or other process or of automation.
facility.
Data flow (Flux Path taken by data within a The speed of the data flow that
de dades) device, network, or organization, passes through the transfer cables
as it moves from its source to a has dropped in recent days.
data repository or a data user.