PROFIBUS offers excellent diagnostics & asset management
Assets Assets
Anything of economic value, such as cash, goods, construction, vehicles, offices, production equipment, patents, technical secrets, etc.
Fixed Assets PlantAssets
Virtual and physical assets used for production activities (controllers, field devices, drivers, etc.)
Fixed Asset Management takes everything that is required to monitor the critical qualifications to ensure optimal use of assets, ensuring functionality and availability while reducing the risk of failure.
PROFIBUS diagnostics support fixed asset management
Unlike traditional communication systems, PROFIBUS can see details of field devices
Take the chemical plant as an example, for the "Level in reactor B2 gets out of spec"
Traditional system (left) diagnostic information is unclear, reporting failure "Failure"
PROFIBUS (right) gives precise diagnostic information
Before Profile 3.02, all diagnostic messages were provided to all users.
>> Operators are difficult to manage
With Profile 3.02
Diagnostic information is classified into categories according to production, and the category conforms to NAMUR NE 107.
Operators get classified information.
The maintenance department gets all the information.