Tut. 03 POF in Industrial Controls
Richard Beach
Beach Communications |
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The market for low cost fiber optic links using plastic optical fiber (POF) is experiencing rapid growth due to renewed market acceptance in the automotive, industrial networking, and consumer markets. POF has always been known for low cost, easy to install, EMI resistant data links, but has been limited in distance and data rate compared to glass fiber optics (GOF). It has been limited by cost and familiarity compared to copper data links. Advances in step index (SI_POF) and graded index plastic optical fiber (GI-POF) and low cost optical transceivers have provided the technology for higher data rates and longer distances at lower cost.
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Overview
- Introduction
- Convergence of the industrial, automotive, and consumer network solutions
- Overview of industrial control networks
- Overview of present standards and trends
- Why POF for industrial controls
- Trends driving POF in the industrial controls market
- Technology solutions
- Industrial control systems using POF
- Market forecasts
- Profiles of major companies and products using fiber optic solutions
- Selling into the industrial control market
- Conclusion
- Questions and answers
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Intended Audience
The intended audience for this course is comprised of senior and middle management, and staff in general management, marketing, sales, and research and development who want a better understanding of the industrial control networking market and the product, technology, company and business model trends driving fundamental changes in the market.
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About the Instructor
Richard Beach is the President of Beach Communications, a business and marketing consulting company to the networking industry. He is an effective leader with over 20 years of business development, marketing, and engineering management experience leading worldwide organizations in developing and manufacturing optical and rf/microwave products for the networking, storage, wireless, and defense electronics markets. The scope of the organizations managed has ranged from startup to general management with P&L responsibility to large product lines within established companies.
He has held board of director positions in the Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Association, the Infrared Data Association, and the Fiber Channel Standard Committee. He has held management positions with Agilent Technologies, Avantek, Digimedics, and Watkins Johnson Co. He holds and MBA and MSEE from Stanford University, and a Bs in Engineering from San Francisco State University. He can be reached at rbeach@stanfordalumni.org
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