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The authors present a communications server implementation called CORE, for a communications equipment company, whose products are mounted and tested in a manufacturing plant controlled by a Token-Ring LAN (Marino and Poza, 1995). This server is being designed for connecting until 16 robots and 30 PLC’s, in a first release, as a “black box” transparent to flexible manufacturing plants, allowing an integrated information system without device dependence.
Transparency is achieved, using CORE in a integrated information system through the above mentioned LAN, with industrial standard communication interfaces as EIA-RS232C and PROFIBUS (Field Bus). Serial interfaces are provided by multiport real-time cards as IBM’s ARTIC (Marino, Poza and Nogueira, Jan-Feb. 1995), for connecting SCARA type robots. Field bus interfaces are provided by means of PLC’s with PROFIBUS ports, for the SINEC L2 network from SIEMENS. Hardware structure of CORE is based in a 486 PC with two multiport ARTIC real-time cards for 8 robots each (Marino, Poza and Nogueira, June 1995), one interface card for SINEC L2 field bus, and another card for Token-Ring (Marino, 1995) LAN (Figure 1). This set of COprocessor and REal-time cards made the name CORE to the server.
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Marino, P., Poza, F., Nogueira, J. (1996). Integrated Information System based on Industrial Standard Protocols. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Balanced Automation Systems II. BASYS 1996. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35065-3_19
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