DeviceNet Recognized As Korean Industrial Standard
Seoul, Republic of Korea – ODVA announced today that DeviceNet has been adopted by the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards as an industrial standard for the Republic of Korea. This announcement, by one of the world's leading technology countries, reaffirms the confidence that both industry and governments have placed in this proven technology as a future-proof solution for automation applications in the coming years.
The Korean economy is world's 12th largest economy and is known for its exports in high technology products such as semiconductor equipment, as well as for automobile manufacturing and shipbuilding. The ODVA membership includes many companies with principal places of business in Korea including some of the country's leading electronics companies such as LG Industrial Systems, Samsung Electronics Co and Rockwell Samsung.
The industrial standard for DeviceNet in Korea is recognized under KS X IEC 62026, Low Voltage Switchgear and Controlgear, Parts 1 and 3. DeviceNet can be justifiably claimed to be one of the most globally standardized networks in the industrial arena. It has been adopted by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) under IEC 62026-3 for Low Voltage Switchgear and Controlgear and the corresponding European standard, EN 50325-2. DeviceNet has been approved as a national standard in China, where the specification has been made part of the first Chinese national standard to encompass fieldbus technology – GB/T 18858 Low Voltage Switchgear and Controlgear Controller-Device Interface. It is also recognized as a standard in the Semiconductor industry under the SEMI E54 standard for Sensor Bus Network Communications. With DeviceNet's lower layers built on CAN, the technology is thus compliant with the ISO 11898 CAN standard.
ODVA expects that this announcement will result in the expanded adoption of the DeviceNet technology in new markets and applications. "DeviceNet is already the leading fieldbus in Korea," states Ik-Young Cho, manager of ODVA TAG Korea. "As a result of DeviceNet's acceptance as a Korean Industrial Standard, DeviceNet usage in Korea will expand beyond manufacturing automation to include public projects such as roads, waste and water treatment and power stations."
DeviceNet has an installed base numbering in the millions of nodes and continues to grow at double-digit rates. "The Asia-Pacific market is very strong for DeviceNet," said Katherine Voss, executive director of ODVA. "The acceptance of DeviceNet as a Korean Industrial Standard ratifies the past investment that both vendors and users have made in this technology and provides them with the assurance to make continued and more extensive investments in DeviceNet solutions for an even broader range of automation applications."
About DeviceNet
DeviceNet provides users with the ability to cost-effectively distribute and manage simple devices throughout their network architecture. It is a digital, multi-drop network that connects and serves as a communication network between industrial controllers and I/O devices. Each device and/or controller is a node on the network. DeviceNet is a producer-consumer network that supports multiple communication hierarchies and message prioritization. DeviceNet systems can be configured to operate in a master-slave or a distributed control architecture using peer-to-peer communication. DeviceNet systems offer a single point of connection for configuration and control by supporting both I/O and explicit messaging. DeviceNet also has the unique feature of having power on the network. This allows devices with limited power requirements to be powered directly from the network, reducing connection points and physical size.
About ODVA
ODVA is an international association comprised of members from the world's leading automation companies. Collectively, ODVA and its members support network technologies based on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™). These currently include DeviceNet™, EtherNet/IP™ along with major extensions to CIP - CIP Safety™, CIP Sync™ and CIP Motion™. ODVA manages the development of these open technologies, and assists manufacturers and users of CIP technologies through tools, training and promotional activities. In addition, ODVA offers conformance testing to help ensure that products built to its specifications operate in multi-vendor systems. ODVA also is active in other standards development organizations and industry consortia to drive the growth of open communication standards. For more information, visit the ODVA web site at: www.odva.org.