Industrial Cabling Standarv2
Industrial Cabling Standarv2
Industrial Cabling Standarv2
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Industrial Cabling Standard
Pete Lockhart
Anixter
Manufacturing IT Forum
Standards
Certification
Education & Training
Publishing Cleveland, Ohio
Conferences & Exhibits
May 20-21, 2008
Key Points to be Covered
Automation island
Area in proximity to the industrial machines
Automation outlet
Where the generic telecommunications cabling ends and the automation-specific
cabling begins
Device area
Where system I/O interacts with control equipment
Industrial segment
A point-to-point connection between two active industrial communications devices
M.I.C.E.
For Mechanical, Ingress, Climate/Chemical, Electromechanical
Horizontal Topology Same as TIA/EIA-568B
Industrial Area Concept
Control/equipment/telecomm room
Factory floor
Work area
Automation island
Industrial Horizontal Star Channel Topology
TO = Telecommunications Outlet
AO = Automation Outlet
Horizontal Allowable Distances
for Copper Links
In many cases industrial cabling can be made almost
entirely of work area cabling, which must be accounted for
when combined with equipment and patch cabling in the
limited 100 m (328 ft.) channel.
The following formula must be used to calculate the
maximum cord and link lengths:
Recognized Horizontal Cables
Twisted-pair copper
4-pair, 100 ohm balanced (unshielded or shielded)
2-pair, 100 ohm balanced (unshielded or shielded)
Optical fiber
Optical (glass) fiber, single-mode and multimode cable
(ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3)
Must be 4-pair
AO Can be 2-pair
Recognized Backbone Cables
Copper
4-pair, 100 ohm balanced (unshielded or shielded)
Optical fiber
Optical (glass) fiber, single-mode and multimode cable
(ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3)
Twisted-pair copper
The installed channels and permanent links shall meet the
requirements for cabling as specified for
Category 5e per ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1, clause11.2
Category 6 per ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2, clause 7
Industrial Cabling Performance Requirements
Telecommunications outlet/connector
8-position modular: (100 ohm balanced twisted pair) per
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1 using T568A 0r B wiring method
Automation outlet/connector
Serves as the interface between generic
cabling and the automation island
Automation outlet/connector
A 2-pair sealed connector. Where a full set of applications is not
required (100BASE-T max), the M12-4 D-coding connector as
defined in IEC 61076-2-100 may be used. It should be a minimum
of Category 5e for four connections or less and Category 6 for
more than four connections.