Foundation Fieldbus to S7

[Fox]

Hello all

Does any one knows how can I connect one S7-300 to a Foundation Fieldbus?

In the field there are already Foundation Fieldbus junction boxes from TURK and the customer needs a PLC to control/colect data from devices conected to this network.

I was thinking of using something like a gateway between Profibus-DP and Foundation Fieldbus but I couldn't find one.

May you help me?

 

[JesperMP]

FF and Profibus PA compete head to head, and Siemens are backing Profibus PA so you wont find any FF products from Siemens.
(Strange though, I saw a press anouncement where Siemens announced that FF would be one of their key technologies, and the Fieldbus Foundation has named a Siemens top guy as president so there may be something under way. But for now that has no importance).

Try Softing (http://www.softing.com/en/communications/index.htm).
They support both FF and Profibus, so that would be the way to go.
They even make some gateways, but I am not sure if they have a gateway that can connect a Siemens PLC directly to FF. Also, do not expect such a thing to be cheap.

Foxboro should support both Profibus and FF, but I doubt that you want to put in a Foxboro DCS as a gateway.

You could also consider to use OPC on a PC as gateway. It has its advantages and disadvantages of course.