GE IC660EBA103RR

E智能平台推出集成实时PROFINET的PACSystems，PROFINET是标准以太网的全球开放通信协议。该新产品的解决方案结合开放标准，在可靠性、连通性和性能方面价值显著。带PROFINET的PACSystems部署灵活，可以最大限度地减少硬件和配置问题，以最低的成本增加应用程序正常运行时间，从而满足用户对高性能分布式系统的需求。

带PROFINET的PACSystems将业务从集中控制系统转移到基于以太网的分布式架构。高速网络可以连接大量I/O同时又不会降低性能，带PROFINET的PACSystems可在高干扰噪声区域工作，实时覆盖距离长，冗余能力得到提高从而可以最大限度地增加正常运行时间。

“如今，公司更注重可控制关键基础架构和高性能制造运营的解决方案，”GE智能平台控制与通信系统副总裁Bernie Anger说道，“带PROFINET的新PACSystems有助于我们的客户增加生产正常运行时间，增强资产性能并提高可靠性。”

“长久以来，自动化行业提供标准以太网实时控制，努力提高性能和简化基础架构，”GE智能平台控制产品的全球产品总经理Connie Chick说道，“为了广泛采用以太网作为控制网络，所连设备须像本地IO设备那样工作--简化安装时的网络复杂性，方便使用的同时又不影响性能。PACSystems采用开放标准，能更好地应用于目标应用领域。”

“GE的这一新闻令我兴奋不已，”PI北美主席Michael Bryant说道，“GE一直努力在产品、系统和解决方案中集成PROFINET，因为PROFINET是一个由全球参与者开发的开放协议，而这意味着本地知识的全球化。此外，PROFINET提供了性能更好、访问更简便的实时车间现场数据，且不会对容量、延迟时间和吞吐量造成影响。”

使用结合PACSystems的PROFINET，GE提供了以太网系统带来的所有益处，而且一点都不复杂。基于名称的配置在短短几分钟内即可提出解决方案。铜缆或光缆直接连接的内置交换机，连接时无需额外硬件，可以在I/O节点间远距离传输且提高了可靠性。环形拓扑结构采用MRP（介质冗余协议），维护期间客户无需关闭应用程序，使用离线节点即可。电缆切断时，系统只需一毫秒即可重新定向传输，无需中断I/O。PACSystems拥有出色的高可用性，PROFINET扩展又使其可用性大大提高。

“不仅仅是车间现场设备需要实时和基于开放标准连接的多领域自动化平台，整个企业内共享数据和信息的生产管理系统也是如此，”ARC顾问集团研究总监Craig Resnick说道，“集成PROFINET的PACSystems的出现满足了这一市场需求，它使用带开放IT标准的TCP/IP协议，在制造企业部署各级基于工业以太网的实时通信，提供即插即用的解决方案。”

“带PROFINET的PACSystems设立了开放系统集成的新标准，为用户带来了显而易见的利益，在不久的将来新技术还能简化迁移，”Chick总结道，“通过简化甚至消除不必要的工作提高客户生产力，这是我们的目标。”

The E intelligent platform has launched PACS systems that integrate real-time PROFINET, a global open communication protocol for standard Ethernet. The solution of this new product combines open standards and has significant value in terms of reliability, connectivity, and performance. PACSystems with PROFINET are flexible in deployment, minimizing hardware and configuration issues, increasing application uptime at the lowest cost, and meeting users' needs for high-performance distributed systems.

PACSystems with PROFINET transfer business from centralized control systems to Ethernet based distributed architectures. High speed networks can connect a large amount of I/O without compromising performance. PACSystems with PROFINET can operate in high interference noise areas, with long real-time coverage distance and improved redundancy, thereby maximizing normal operating time.

Nowadays, companies are more focused on solutions that can control critical infrastructure and high-performance manufacturing operations, "said Bernie Anger, Vice President of Control and Communication Systems for GE Intelligent Platforms." The new PACSystems with PROFINET help our customers increase production uptime, enhance asset performance, and improve reliability

For a long time, the automation industry has provided standard Ethernet real-time control, striving to improve performance and simplify infrastructure, "said Connie Chick, Global Product General Manager for GE Intelligent Platform Control Products, In order to widely adopt Ethernet as the control network, the connected devices must work like local IO devices - simplifying network complexity during installation, making it easy to use while not affecting performance. PACSystems adopt open standards and can be better applied to target application areas

This news from GE excites me immensely, "said Michael Bryant, Chairman of PI North America, GE has been striving to integrate PROFINET into its products, systems, and solutions because it is an open protocol developed by global participants, which means the globalization of local knowledge. In addition, PROFINET provides better performance and easier access to real-time workshop on-site data without affecting capacity, latency, and throughput

Using PROFINET combined with PACSystems, GE provides all the benefits of Ethernet systems without any complexity. A name based configuration can propose a solution in just a few minutes. A built-in switch directly connected to copper or fiber optic cables, which does not require additional hardware during connection, can transmit over long distances between I/O nodes and improve reliability. The ring topology adopts MRP (Medium Redundancy Protocol), and during maintenance, customers do not need to close applications and can use offline nodes. When the cable is cut, the system can redirect transmission in just one millisecond without interrupting I/O. PACSystems have excellent high availability, and the expansion of PROFINET greatly improves its availability.

Not only do on-site equipment in the workshop require real-time and multi domain automation platforms based on open standards connectivity, but also production management systems that share data and information throughout the enterprise, "said Craig Resnick, Research Director of ARC Consulting Group, The emergence of PACSystems with integrated PROFINET meets this market demand, using TCP/IP protocol with open IT standards to deploy real-time communication based on industrial Ethernet at all levels in manufacturing enterprises, providing a plug and play solution

PACSystems with PROFINET have set a new standard for open system integration, bringing obvious benefits to users. In the near future, new technologies can also simplify migration, "Chick concluded." Our goal is to improve customer productivity by simplifying or even eliminating unnecessary work