6/5/2011 1:45 AM | |
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Hi! To all of mature fieldbus users and maintenance experts. Anybody of you knows good-but-cheap tool for fast diagnosis of failures in 1.Profibus 2.ASI-bus (3.LAN 4.Interbus 5.DeviceNet less often) that can be used for maintenance technician to identification major failures? Tool can be of handheld shape (stand alone) or PC-adapter-like. In car industry, where mostly all factories are JIT plants, any stoppage for more than 1 hour generates a huge rush and in many cases (especially in welding cages - very dirty jigs...) any cable tracing makes a headache. Using basic S7 diagnostic or communicates given by fieldbus interfaces are not clear. And it is difficult to run with all manuals to know the meaning of LED codes or numbers shown on interfaces. Maybe I'm a dreamer, but most of serial fieldbuses need just a few dollar chips to connect to. At least PB/MPI/PPI and ASI would be easy to integrate in one device. Now with M12 coded connectors physical layer seems to not be a problem at all. I found something like this http://www.softing.com/home/en/industrial-automation/products/network-diagnostics/profibus/cable-tester.php . Anybody knows is it worth its money, as it looks like? |
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6/5/2011 10:56 PM | |
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Hello zeemens, here a Tool for Testing Profibus: 6ES7181-0AA01-0AA0SIMATIC DP, BT200 BUS TEST UNIT Do you know the software Amprolyzer? I used it very often to check the telegrams at the bus. Best regards Sabine |
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6/6/2011 10:33 AM | |
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Hello zeemens Not too sure if I can help with the "cheap" part of your enquiry, but can certainly list a few "good" Profibus Test and Troubleshooting tools: I'll start the list with my personal favourite which is Profitrace 2 from Procentec I've been using this one (incl. its predecessor) formany years now and simply love it (the company I work for is also a distributor for it so I guess I need to declare a possible conflict of interest. Havingsaid that, I'd still vouchfor iteven if we weren't a distributor). Profitrace's main competitors are possibly Softing as well asTrebbing & Himstedtand Comsoft deserves and honorably mention too for completeness. Foxon as well as Profichip (who are also Procentec Distributors) have(slightly dated) comparison overviews of the above Profibus related "testers" which you can find HEREand HERE. Note that Procentec has recently relasedCOMbricks which is a rather fascinating and versatile piece of equipment and you can find out more about HERE. As for ASI testers I'm afraid to say thatIhaven't had the greatest need for any yetand can't really offer hands on advise. Siemens has the AS-Interface addressing unit V3.0 (which is more of an ASIconfiguration than test tool), but a google search will reveal a fair fewadditional ones. |
Last edited by: fritz at: 6/6/2011 12:05 PMAdded Profichip''s comparison overview link to post Cheers |
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6/7/2011 5:22 PM | |
Joined: 4/13/2008 Last visit: 4/5/2021 Posts: 71 Rating: (9) |
Found that T+H software Profibus Scope HERE can be used with CP5611 i.e. FPGM as well. But it is not freeware. |
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