IAONA stands for:
- The independent roof organization for industrial Ethernet
- Standardization and harmonization of innovative technologies
- The competence center for: Information, publication and training
OBJECTIVES
IAONA was founded in 1999 at the SPS/IPC/Drives in Nuremberg as an alliance of meanwhile more than 130 leading international manufacturers and users of automation systems. It pursues the aim of establishing Ethernet as the standard application in every industrial environment at an international level. Sense of this is to realise a general, interfaceless communication through all levels of an enterprise. This refers to all fields of plant automation, process automation, and building automation.
The task of IAONA is to commonly work out specifications to be used in order to force the spread of Ethernet in the lds described above. Also the development of new, market-appropriate applications based on Ethernet will be fostered through a regular and mutual exchange of information. IAONA expects the use of Ethernet to expand to all levels and fields of enterprises. Nevertheless in a first step transitions to classical field bus technologies are to be created.
IAONA takes the view that a realisation of these aims can only succeed by applying the principle of the "open source" model. That means a consequent spread out of all specifications over a broad public.
IAONA AS UMBRELLA ORGANISATION
To guarantee the compatibility of industrial Ethernet as far as possible, IAONA in its new role as a neutral umbrella organization for industrial Ethernet has the goal to extend existing commonalties in the different protocols and approaches for industrial Ethernet and to prevent further incompatibilities of the existing solutions. For this reason the Open Device Vendor Association (ODVA) and the IDA Group collaborate with the IAONA. The three organizations have defined a common strategy for the further development of Ethernet based products for industrial automation. As a medium-term goal for example the following topics shall be worked on together:
common and interoperable solutions for the use of Layers 1-4 protocols for
- real-time control
- common definition of priority levels
- common guidelines for cabling and wiring
- common strategies for plug-and-play
interoperability to be used for
- IP-Addressing
- device descriptions and
- backup/restore mechanisms
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