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This paper is dedicated to improve the skills of Electric Engineering students about Industrial Automation. This is done creating a set of practical exercises in the laboratory that allow students to interact with didactic and industrial equipment understanding the compatibility problems and give students the tools, the knowledge and even some creative freedom to solve problems that happen in real situations. In this case it is focused on the interconnection of equipment from different manufacturers using the Modbus protocol. To allow to the students this practical study, it was developed a solution based on the Modbus RTU protocol directly implemented in the program memory of both S7-200 (using the Freeport configuration mode) and S7-300 PLCs. The solution allows a gateway between Modbus-TCP (over a Master TSX PLC from Schneider-Electric) and Profibus-DP (over a Master S7-300 PLC from Siemens).
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Cordeiro, A., Costa, P., Fernão Pires, V., Foito, D. (2018). Modbus Protocol as Gateway Between Different Fieldbus Devices - a Didactic Approach. In: Auer, M., Guralnick, D., Simonics, I. (eds) Teaching and Learning in a Digital World. ICL 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 715. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73210-7_99
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