PROFINET Component Based Automation simplifies machine-to-machine connectivity by treating machines and automation control devices from any vendor as generic “components”.

 

Components are easily created in minutes and managed in an intuitive graphic engineering tool by simply arranging and drawing lines between them – eliminating the need for communications programming.

 

• Add machines, make changes or expand your production process, using the simple, graphic, unified engineering tool – no communications code required!
  
• Bring a new machine on line in minutes not hours using “configured” communications, not by writing communications code.
  
• Re-use machine communication configuration without writing code to reduce the amount of time it takes.
  
• And with PROFINET CBA, there is no longer a need to understand all the complexities of every control platform present on the communications network