Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto.
Abstract
Recent developments in the factory floor technologies together with the widespread use of TCP/IP and
the Internet are increasing the eagerness to support a new wide class of devices and applications, such as
industrial multimedia applications, in factory floor networks. This paper presents how this new field of
applications can be put into practice, via a manufacturing cell field trial being implemented. This
manufacturing automation field trial involves the use of traditional distributed computer control systems
and 'factory-floor-oriented' multimedia (e.g. voice, video) application services
