The true 4 x 4 Industrial Network is here

CONET has a niche market for applications where no other Network will go. It is a true industrial network! The CONET Network was designed by Omniflex over 25 years ago realising that one of the biggest problems facing plant engineers was finding the most cost effective way of being able to transfer information from the point of measurement to the point of monitoring or control due to the high cost of new cable runs within plants. Omniflex's CONET network and the Maxiflex I/O system has since been installed in hundreds of applications around the world and allows plants to make use of existing cable for plant data communications with massive cost savings, on some applications this saving has been up to a million pounds on installation costs of new cable , which also includes the cost of trenches, cable trays and scaffolding etc. CONET is specified to run on instrumentation grade twisted pair cable at 62,500 baud up to distances of 10Km on one network. It has also been utilised on hundreds of installations at shorter distances where the cable is not characterised. The reason for this is that, some plants make use of existing cable where some of these are unshielded, ungrounded and or in poor condition. Some very large distributed plant networked I/O systems have been fully integrated without the need to run any new cables at all by just utilising spare cores in existing multi-core cables or even old spares cores in telephone cables. Plant communications technology has advanced dramatically in the last decade. The range of instrumentation capable of being networked grows daily. It is not easy to connect disparate instruments and networks into a unified infrastructure, to make information available for real-time management and control. In retrofit applications this becomes even more difficult because of the limits of existing equipment, cabling and budget. CONET however is a uniquely positioned communications infrastructure that can blend many communications standards such as RS232/485, Ethernet, Radio, GSM/GPRS into a network of networks - an inter-networking technology that integrates these standard networks into a unified plant-wide I/O and information system. When you run out of standards, the rugged CONET fieldbus network can fetch data up to 10km away on existing cables - making possible the integration of systems not thought feasible. To discuss how the Maxiflex RTU and CONET network strategy can benefit you, save cost and improve your plant wide I/O Information system, contact Omniflex today on 0161 491 4144

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