Using the same network technology as in the office world, both automation and office domain can, in principle, be connected to one single enterprise network. Ethernet is of course no cure-all; it is not much more than a network basis for data exchange.
As such, it is an important step toward horizontal integration, but this alone is not sufficient. More relevant for integration, notably in the vertical direction,
is the wide usage of the IP suite in industrial Ethernet approaches.
It is this non-Ethernet-specific property that actually alleviates data exchange across the levels of the automation pyramid and makes the pyramid structure flatter and easier to handle.
Using the same network technology as in the office world, both automation and office domain can, in principle, be connected to one single enterprise network. Ethernet is of course no cure-all; it is not much more than a network basis for data exchange. As such, it is an important step toward horizontal integration, but this alone is not sufficient. More relevant for integration, notably in the vertical direction, is the wide usage of the IP suite in industrial Ethernet approaches.It is this non-Ethernet-specific property that actually alleviates data exchange across the levels of the automation pyramid and makes the pyramid structure flatter and easier to handle.
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