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Industrial communication
delivers higher productivity

Grundfos A/S / Denmark

Wireless PROFINET total solution

The customer:

The Grundfos group is represented by 67 companies in 43 countries.
The pumps are manufactured in production plants in 12 countries.
Yearly production of about 10 million pumps.

The challenge:

Initial situation

Change to new system
The old system based on slip rings
The MES system was extremely proprietary

Requirements

System based on standard components
Less maintenance
Easy access to trained and competent technicians
Extremely reliable wireless communications
Simple diagnostics

The solution:

Profinet based solution.

The customer benefits:

Safety and standard communications based on the same CPU, I/O and network: IWLAN, PROFINET and PROFIBUS respectively
Much less maintenance (Wireless LAN in comparison to former Slip ring solution)
More transperancy through Web based diagnostics
Very high system availability through redundant network
Siemens wireless solution fits best to Grundfos`s requirements

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