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Date: June 2006


WG MeetingFirst steps for the quality assurance of Network Components


The Working Group - Fibre Optic Components had a meeting at PROCENTEC in The Netherlands. The objective was to investigate the testing of Network Components for PROFIBUS and PROFINET.

Dennis van Booma and Fedor Meyer gave a presentation and demonstration on how the Dutch testlab already tests active Network Components for PROFIBUS. At this moment only test cases for masters and slaves are defined. When Network Components would also be tested by an independent testlab, PROFIBUS and PROFINET would be the only industrial communication standards that can really give a quality statement on the products being deployed worldwide. PROCENTEC has almost all the test cases available to test repeaters, fibre optic components, wireless components and other medium converters for PROFIBUS. The next logical step would be to follow up on cable and connectors.

The companies who participated at this meeting were: Avago Technologies, Harting Electric, Leoni Fiber Optics, Phoenix Contact, PROCENTEC, Siemens, Souriau, Weidmüller and of course PROFIBUS International.


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