Section 3: Constructing A Safety Network - Omron DEVICENET SAFETY - CONFIGURATION MANUAL 05-2005 System Configuration Manual

3-1 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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3-2 Verifying the Network Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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3-3 Calculating and Verifying the Maximum Reaction Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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Establishing a New Safety Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Changing an Established Safety Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Checking the Network Bandwidth Used for Safety I/O Communications . . . . . 59
Allocating Network Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Example of EPI Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Concept of Reaction Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Calculating the Maximum Reaction Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Verifying the Maximum Reaction Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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