03/30/2008 • Automation • IT and automation • Process automation / MSR technology

Who still wants to wire everything separately?

The new PROFIBUS Power Hub from Pepperl+Fuchs is s segment coupler designed to provide transparent data communication between PROFIBUS DP and PA. It was specifically developed to meet the requirements of smaller PROFIBUS structures and simplifies alterations and extensions of larger systems. This segment coupler offers an intelligent solution, allowing easy and cost-effective integration of field devices into the process control system.

The PROFIBUS has two faces. This worldwide standard of the process industry offers two alternatives: PROFIBUS PA and PROFIBUS DP. Although both are based upon the same idea and follow the same standards, they are tailored to meet different requirements.

Segment coupling is used to combine both PROFIBUS DP and PA. An especially compact and smart segment coupler is the new Compact PROFIBUS Power Hub from Pepperl+Fuchs. It is especially designed for smaller systems, but also demonstrates its qualities, when it comes to extending conventional PROFIBUS systems or installing test applications with PROFIBUS PA. In such situations, normally only a limited number of field devices are connected via PROFIBUS PA, while devices with high data rates, such as frequency converters are hooked up in parallel to PROFIBUS DP.

The new PROFIBUS Power Hub makes it easy to build heterogeneous PROFIBUS systems. As all PROFIBUS segment couplers from Pepperl+Fuchs, it does not require any configuration, while delivering the power supply for the field devices and automatically adjusting to communications speed on the DP-side.

With the compact PROFIBUS Power Hub, transparent data communication between PROFIBUS DP and PA requires only little effort. The process control system or any SPS will accept all PA devices as DP instruments. This makes the PROFIBUS Power Hub an ideal solution for example to plan and implement smaller systems with only one PROFIBUS DP network. There is no easier and more cost-effective way to integrate PA field devices into the process control system.

Get to know the compact PROFIBUS Power Hub from Pepperl+Fuchs. Experience the new generation of PROFIBUS segment couplers, developed by the experts in field bus technology and ex protection.

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