Presentation from the 24th Annual ODVA Meeting of Members and General Sessions
24th Term in Review
Al Beydoun, President and Executive Director, ODVA
Joakim Wiberg, CTO, ODVA
EtherNet/IP over Ethernet-APL Plastics Plant Case Study
Patrick Koenig, Product/Technical Solutions Manager/Sales Engineer, VEGA Americas, Inc.
A major manufacturer of plastic packaging products sought to modernize its inventory management system for raw plastic pellet storage silos. The existing level measurement technology proved intermittently unreliable, particularly during the critical filling process. This case study examines the customer journey to a non-contact radar level measurement solution utilizing Ethernet-APL with Ethernet/IP protocol. This approach allowed for direct digital communication with the Rockwell PLC via an Ethernet-APL Field Switch, simplifying installation while ensuring high-quality, real-time digital data transmission.
EtherNet/IP Salmon Farm and Wastewater Treatment Plant Case Study
Christian Seiler, Product Management, AUMA
In Laxey, Iceland, Atlantic salmon are raised from eggs to market size fish in an environment as controlled and monitored as any pharmaceutical plant. Laxey is a land-based salmon farm of unusual ambition. Where traditional salmon farming in open-water sea cages, Laxey raises them entirely in a sealed, climate-controlled facility on land, drawing on seawater pumped up through volcanic rock. This case study highlights the value of upgrading traditional fieldbus networks to the EtherNet/IP industrial Ethernet protocol to monitor and continuously manage oxygen levels, water chemistry, and waste in both a salmon farm and a wastewater treatment plant.
A Data Center’s Motivation for IPv6
Joseph LeBeau, Lead Controls Engineer, Meta
Hyperscale data center controls use thousands of EtherNet/IP nodes per data center across double digit sites. Every chiller, pump skid, CDU, fan wall, switchgear controller, and power meter is an EtherNet/IP node — and the count continues to grow. Meta makes the case from an end user perspective for moving IPv6 from just the IT side to the OT side as well.