LEON

UPDATE: Our stand will be in Hall 26, F05

Last Friday (14th March 2008) we took part in the Final Competition with 30 other nominees in Blomberg at the Phoenix Contact headquarters.

It was a great possibility to get to know all the other teams from all over the world.

Really all projects were fascinating and as we saw our competitors we never thought about any chance to get a prize.

But finally we placed 1st in our category NET against three other strong teams and were invited to the Phoenix Contact exhibition stand at Hannover Fair!

Phoenix Contact main stand: Hall 9, Stand F40

Only the celebration on Wednesday 4.40pm will happen at this main stand.

We really did not expect this to happen, but are very proud to be able to present LEON to the professional visitors in Hannover.

After the third new start of the project, it runs finally without any errors. Creating something in Visu+ without any indroduction can be very tough. Learning by doing is the key, but in Visu+ this means “do something, learn and start again from scratch to apply the new stuff…”

Copy&Paste will fail in nearly all cases, except you know every single variable connection between objects.

Anyway, beside some browser applets for demonstration purpose, the visualization looks like this:

Hi folks, there’s a great video about the Phoenix Contact Local Meeting events. Including interviews with English subtitles.

Our project manager Thomas Fuchs gives a short overview about the LEON project within the first minutes.

As you may have recognized before, there is an entry called “Leonpedia” in our left handed navigation bar. Until now it might not have been very useful to you.
But as we get on with our work, there are many things we want to explain to you.

Today we start with some multilingual information about VLANs (German / English) as the first part of our technical section.

Please feel free to comment, we appreciate any suggestions!

Today i have to tell you some good news: the main control cabinet is checked and now ready to be programmed.

First i assembled the powercable with a red CEE-connector, if we want to use the system with three phases. After that i did a functional check. It´s result was I.O.

Here you can see the actual appearance:

Since last friday we’re ready to put our main control cabinet into operation. The main components are wired and ready to check them. The check will be likely on next Monday, after that we’re able to continue with the development of the software for the ILC 350 PN from Phoenix Contact.

The circuit diagram has been completely redrawn in E-Plan P8, because the one we used as a blueprint was done in Caddy++, which is not an industrial standard.

Our next steps will be to install a network cable between the ILC 350 PN and the connector on the left side of the control cabinet, furthermore we have to install new banana jacks to preserve the demanded degree of protection. As soon as the shipment with the missing motor contactor is comming, the control cabinet is completed.

Here are some pics of our desktop…



doing the “paper work”, …



and some soldering.

Yes it’s true. Yesterday we started our project. I will give you a little impression how we are working here:

We will have to do much organisation work in the first days. As soon as possible we will give you an update with more information about our working progress.