In manufacturing enterprises, with the expansion of production scale and business adjustment, the production capacity of old equipment may be replaced by new equipment, and new factories also need to introduce new equipment, which needs to be connected to their respective local area networks for monitoring and management, so as to understand the equipment status and production data in real time. However, IP conflicts may often lead to the inability to access the IoT network.
Before the general equipment leaves the factory, the manufacturer needs to conduct quality inspection and testing on the equipment, build a test network environment to test the equipment, and set the same IP to reduce the cumbersome work and improve work efficiency. However, customers need to face the problem of modifying the same IP, and the shutdown of each device to modify the IP will undoubtedly greatly affect the production efficiency, which is not liked by the customer. In this regard, the easy-to-use network segment isolator (NAT gateway) of Wutong Bolian can effectively solve the above problems.
The network segment isolator (NAT gateway) is suitable for network communication and data acquisition of PLC, HMI, CNC, DCS, MES and other networks in the production network, and has the functions of cross-network segment isolation and IP conversion. It supports segment isolation and NAT conversion for multiple devices (such as PLC, CNC, etc.) at the same timeIf there are IP addresses of different network segments of multiple equipment in the workshop, they can be unified into the IP addresses of the same network segment for various cross-network segment access such as programming, data acquisition, and remote management of equipment (PLC, CNC).
Through NAT conversion, enterprises can re-allocate IP to new and old devices that need to access the LAN in the system, divide network resources to achieve high-speed and smooth data communication, so as to realize real-time monitoring of devices on the mobile phone and computer, and quickly locate them in the event of a failure. In addition, NAT gateways can also prevent network attacks by hiding their real IP addresses, effectively enhancing network security.