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System integration made easy for
Chinese subway line
Guangzhou Metro Line in China connected various monitoring equipment
to ControlNet using soluons from Rockwell Automaon and the Anybus
Communicator from HMS.
The Guangzhou Metro Line 5 spans 40 kilometers east to
west through Guangzhou City. The line includes 24 staons and has a
capacity of transporng a whopping 50 million passengers per day.
Like all modern subway lines, the Guangzhou Metro Line 5
has a comprehensive monitoring system overlooking venlaon,
air condioning, water supply, drainage, elevators etc.
The Challenge
The Metro Line system has numerous points with large amounts of data.
The monitoring system has a total of about 210,000 I/O points. The enre
project was forecasted to contain 280,000 points, of which 70,000 points
were allocated to the BAS system. Consequently, system integraon required
a great deal of work and deadlines were ght – 24 staons were to be
simultaneously opened. Indeed, never before in the country had so many
staons been opened at one me.
The Solution
The Rockwell Automaon system is widely used in the rail transport eld. The
central segment of the Metro Line 5 BAS system uses ControlLogix Redundancy
Controllers from the Rockwell Automaon Integrated Architecture plaorm.
Together with the Anybus Communicator ControlNet gateway, devices with a
serial RS-485 interface with a custom protocol were easily integrated into the
system.
The BAS system was implemented one month before Guangzhou Metro Line
5 was successfully commissioned. The system integraon was carried out by
Beijing-based HollySys Automaon Technologies.
Case Study: Protocol conversion
Soluon: Device connecvity using a custom serial protocol
Country: China
Company: Guangzhou Metro
Summary: Anybus Communicator enables
communicaon between dierent
devices in Guangzhou Metro’s surveillance
system and the ControlNet network.
“The Communicator required no programming and was congured to use a uniform method to
access subsystems; thereby, saving us a great deal of me in the project implementaon stage.”
Zhao Feng, HollySys’ project manager of the Guangzhou Metro Line 5 project.
Rockwell Automation and HMS provide intelligent
solutions for the Guangzhou Metro Line 5 BAS system
BAS Metro Line 5 System Overview
Anybus
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Communicator™ - Protocol converter gateways
Automation: a must to be able to compete on
the global market
C.I.A. Automaon and Robocs has extensive experience in the eld
of advanced automaon, proposed as a strategic tool to increase the
compeveness of Italian companies in the world. It oers advanced
technologies such as laser scanners, stereoscopic vision equipment and
systems that can reproduce a die and copy it directly, automacally
recomposing the scanning scaergrams, a very dierenang soluon.
The Challenge
“We have produced automaon systems, tesng benches and machinery
managed by PLCs and Scada systems for the foodstus, chemical, glass,
plascs, metalworking, metallurgical and automobile industries”, explained
Mr Angelo Galimber, the sole director of C.I.A. Automaon and Robocs.
“As well as many other applicaons, such as robosed staons for servo-
mechanical machinery, pallesaon lines, assembly lines and processing
lines such as for handling, cung, hot and cold pressing, welding, tacking,
inducon, brazing, deburring, etc.” As most of C.I.A Automaon and Robocs
applicaons are specic, they have to interface dierent kinds of devices in
their automac systems that use dierent communicaon protocols.
The Solution
“We have produced various equipment with PROFIBUS master PLCs and
DeviceNet slaves, or with DeviceNet master PLCs and PROFIBUS slaves, and so
on”, said Galimber. “HMS products have enabled us to resolve and simplify
a number of these applicaons. The protocols we use the most are PROFIBUS
and DeviceNet, which cover almost 90% of the cases we deal with involving
robots and PLCs.”
The Result
He added that C.I.A. was sased with the performance of HMS products and
that no major problems were encountered. “I believe that we will connue to
nd space for HMS products in our future applicaons, whenever we need to
interface system parts that use dierent communicaon protocols”, concluded
the director of C.I.A. Automaon & Robocs.
Case Study: Network to network
Network to network and PLC system connectivity for
C.I.A Automation and Robotics
Soluon: Network to Network connecvity
Country: Italy
Company: C.I.A. Automaon and Robocs
Summary: Anybus X-gateways provide robots
with connecvity to several
industrial networks such as for
example PROFIBUS and DeviceNet.
Anybus
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X-gateway™ - Network to network gateways
“This need for exibility in diverse design condions led us to try HMS products, which we
appreciated immediately because they are parcularly comprehensive and can be used to
interface dierent kinds of machines, even pre-exisng machinery.”
Angelo Galimber, Director of C.I.A. Automaon and Robocs.
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