Implementing Open Systems Magneti Marelli Pilot Application

Summary

The introduction of Information Technologies in modern production systems is a consequence of the large amount of information that must be managed to gain an adequate control of an automated plant.

The adoption of a good standard for all the communications in factory and the definition of the correct strategy to implement it in industrial applications can give sensitive economic and technical advantages.

Inside CNMA project the Magneti Marelli pilot aims to investigate those two aspects providing an industrial application where a common communication technology interconnects various, multivendor devices and computers by a three level control architecture.

The main choices made to integrate the complex environment are:

• make all the differences which can be found at the shop floor level invisible from the cell control level up.

• prefer SW gateways linked to the application software instead of integrating different physical networks by means of specific HW gateways.