Biography

Linus Thrybom is ad interim team manager of the Industrial Communication team in ABB Corporate Research, Sweden. He joined ABB Corporate Research in 2008, where he has been working as Principal Scientist and project leader in the area of industrial communication, including e.g. time critical Ethernet, IEC 61850, time synchronization, WAN and positioning in wireless networks. Linus has authored or co-authored several publications and IP filings. Between 1998 and 2008 he worked as project leader at Bombardier Transportation on train communication and control systems, between 1992 and 1997 he worked at ABB Industrial Systems as HW/SW design engineer of communication devices, and he has thus +20 years of R&D experience in this domain. Linus received his MSc degree in Computer Science in 1991 from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Abstract

Industrial automation systems depend highly on deterministic and reliable communication and networking. Additionally, most automation systems can already be seen as a kind of an “Internet of Things, Services and People”, since an automation plant network connects the sensors, actuators, control algorithm, data store and operators with each other. The introduction of Ethernet into the industrial communication domain is a recent change which has impacted most of us, but what is the next phase in industrial communication and networking?

This talk will present some of the communication and networking solutions which are used in industrial products and systems, as well as an outlook into future trends of industrial communication and networking in automation systems.