Case Study: a biopharmaceutical company from India integrates process skids into a DCS with Hilscher netTAP 151

a biopharmaceutical company from India reduces protocol conversion time to under 5ms with Hilscher

The customer, a biopharmaceutical company from India, faced the challenge of integrating various independent process skids using PROFINET IO into its Distributed Control System (DCS) that relied on Ethernet/IP. This incompatibility threatened to cause high engineering costs and long commissioning times. The vendor, Hilscher, provided its netTAP 151 gateway to resolve this protocol conflict.

Hilscher's solution used the netTAP 151 to seamlessly convert the PROFINET IO protocol from the process skids to the Ethernet/IP protocol required by the DCS. This eliminated the need for separate IO cards, which significantly reduced engineering costs and commissioning time for the biopharmaceutical company. The implementation provided a flexible and scalable integration, allowing the customer's DCS to easily access crucial process data.