ProfiTrace

Mobile PROFIBUS Combi-Analyzer

ProfiTrace is an essential tool for maintenance and troubleshooting and is currently the most powerful mobile analyzer for PROFIBUS networks. Thousands of users benefit daily from this tool.

ProfiTrace is easy to use and unites all required elements in one to detect several PROFIBUS faults. The following tools are combined to create one simple solution:

Bus monitor

Oscilloscope

Bar graph

Topology scan

Reporting

DP Master

Predictive maintenance and asset management are simple with ProfiTrace. Read more below about product features, statistics, scanning, and reporting.

Fits in your pocket

User-friendly

Controls and measures the whole installation

Product features & application areas

This outstanding tool that fits in your pocket, boosts the capabilities of service, maintenance and engineering technicians. They can check and troubleshoot the complete PROFIBUS network with 1 software package and 1 piece of hardware (ProfiCore™ Ultra). This is an enormous reduction in equipment, weight, costs and required knowledge.

Typical failures such as noise, reflections, voltage drops, termination problems, double addresses, wire breaks and configuration faults are easily identified.

The results can be exported to detailed reports. Predictive maintenance and asset management are really possible with ProfiTrace!

Application areas

Product features

Troubleshooting & maintenance of PROFIBUS networks

Commissioning of PROFIBUS networks

PROFIBUS product testing and verification

Passive cable testing

I/O testing of PROFIBUS devices

Setting up and diagnose PROFIBUS devices

Address setting of PROFIBUS devices

Interface for bus statistics and device I/O to external apps

Busmonitor for DP and PA with powerful statistics

Oscilloscope - ScopeWare

Bar graph

Topology scan

Reporting

3-Color network condition indicator

DP master - ProfiCaptain

ProfiCore Ultra USB interface

OPC server and CommDTM

Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 platforms

Multi language user interface

Measuring

Live List

"Colors make it easy….."

The Live List is a matrix that continuously lists all the available devices. It is directly visible which devices are ‘troublemakers’. With different background colours the status of the devices is displayed;

Green: Device is in Data Exchange

Yellow: Device is lost

Red: Parameter fault

Purple: Configuration fault

No colour: Not in Data Exchange

Statistics matrix and network condition indicator

"Click and go….."

The statistics matrix and network condition indicator are the most powerful features of ProfiTrace. These fields can really tell what the condition of the installation is without doing difficult operations.

Retry messages

Bus cycle time

Diagnostic messages

Message recording

"The absolute truth....."

When the user records messages, he has a perfect visual representation on the screen;

FDL, DP, DP-V1, DP-V2, PA and I&M telegrams

Messages can be filtered and stored

Data interpretation of bits, bytes, words

Error detection

Bookmarks

ScopeWare (PA)

All features of ScopeWare DP

Max. 33 VDC

Max. 1.2 Vtt AC

AC and DC can be displayed simultaneously

Detects missing termination

PA Probe Ultra is required

ScopeWare (DP)

"The easiest oscilloscope ever....."

With the built in oscilloscope we can detect; noise, reflections, termination problems.....

Differential and single ended measurements

Time scale: 50 ns to 500 ms

Voltage scale: 0.5 to 5 V per DIV

Multiple trigger settings

Bit interpretation engine

Bar graph

"The bar graph is a helpful utility to get an impression of the overall signal quality of the network."

Selectable types and modes

Signal quality in color

Sorted on address or Voltage

Continuously updated

Scanning, Reporting and Solutions

Topology scan

Automatic generation of the network topology

No shutdown required!

No disturbance in the cycle time!

Works on 500 kbps and 1.5 Mbps

On passive and active networks

ProfiCaptain - DP Master

"Test and control your devices....."

Complete integration of ProfiCaptain

Putting slaves in Data Exchange

I/O control with automatic patterns

Automatic detection of busparameters

Brand new concept of 'stealing' slaves

Class 2 functions in a Class 1 framework

No shutdowns when updating the configuration

Deactivating slaves in the configuration

Master in ProfiTrace

Reporting

"We have proof….."

The reporting feature creates a detailed report that contains the signals of all devices, their faults, the network topology, bar graph and administrative information.