Clock Synchronization on the Factory Floor

Walter Gora; Ulrich Herzog; Satish K. Tripathi

doi:10.1109/41.3109

Clock Synchronization on the Factory Floor

Walter Gora
, Ulrich Herzog
, Satish K. Tripathi

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Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

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One important issue for the coordination of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) in an automated factory is the synchronization among the manufacturing processes based on a common clock. This paper describes the synchronization requirements on the factory floor and discusses several clock synchronization algorithms, their theoretical bounds, and the results of joint work at Maryland and Erlangen. The measurement results based on the implementations of the synchronization algorithms on local area networks at Maryland and Erlangen are presented. For hierarchical LAN's an algorithm is developed and its behavior is simulated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	372-380
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/41.3109
State	Published - Aug 1988

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