December 2008
Featured Tech Notes: Modbus TCP over Wireless Connection Featured Products: Cellular |
CC-Link Family of Gateways | CIPconnect™ Bridges Events: Upcoming Tradeshows
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ProSoft Technology would like to wish you a Happy Holiday Season, and to thank each of you for your
continued support throughout 2008. With the New Year approaching, you can expect a vast new product
offering from ProSoft Technology, starting with the Featured Products section below.

Cheers, to a happy and successful New Year!

Featured Tech Notes

The following two documents illustrate implementation details of Modbus TCP over a wireless connection between two devices (one client device and one Server device). Details include installation, configuration, and testing of the wireless Modbus TCP network with a Modicon® M340™ PAC and with a Modicon® Quantum™ PLC.

How to setup Wireless Modbus TCP: M340 with NOE and Quantum with NOE

How to setup Wireless Modbus TCP: M340 CPU and Quantum with NOE

Featured Products

Take a look at the new and exciting products coming in 2009.

Cellular

ProSoft Technology industrial cellular solutions combine robust industrial cellular technology from Sierra Wireless, deployment ready options through our data service partners, and industrial protocol pre-configuration. Sierra’s ALEOS intelligence, rugged design and Class I Div 2 certification make these devices perfectly suited for the industrial automation market, including remote process or OEM equipment monitoring, non-time-critical control for municipal and oil/gas SCADA, and M2M applications. The products are expected to be commercially available in the first quarter of 2009.

Press Release

CC-Link Family of Gateways

ProSoft Technology’s new Modbus TCP/IP and EtherNet/IP to CC-Link communication gateways allows Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric control platform users to integrate any of the over eight-hundred Mitsubishi’s CC-Link (compatible products with existing Modbus TCP/IP EtherNet/IP control networks.

CIPconnect™ Bridges for Easy Integration

ProSoft Technology’s new CIPconnect™ bridges for Modbus and Modbus TCP/IP allow users familiar with the CIP-compliant Ethernet/IP protocol to easily integrate devices without requiring familiarity with the Modbus protocol. The bridges provide seamless routing with no additional programming requirements and minimal bridge configuration.

Events

Upcoming Tradeshows


Hawaii Water Environment Association
Annual Conference
Honolulu, HI 2/3 - 2/5
The Future of Wireless Solutions in
Industrial Automation
Frankfurt, Germany 2/5
ODVA 13th Annual Meeting of Members
See Jim Ralston of ProSoft Technology
present:
“Applying Wireless to EtherNet/IP
Automation Systems”
Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida 2/24 - 2/26
ISA Expo Houston, TX 10/6 - 10/8
ISA-SSJV Bakersfield, CA
PACK EXPO Las Vegas, NV 10/5 – 10/7

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