Shop floor communications networks are evolving towards the increased use of open connecting equipment, that meets standard protocols, under a client/server architecture. An implementation of a such communications server, based in a low cost PC with multiport and filed bus cards, is presented. The first prototype has been designed as a black box transparent to flexible manufacturing plants, connecting sixteen SCARA robots and thirty programmable logic controllers
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Micro Machine and Human Science, 1996., Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium
Date of Conference: 2-4 Oct 1996