The PROFIBUS Group (UK) will participate at MachineBuilding.Live on October 4, 2023. The event is being held at a venue much favored by engineers of all disciplines: the acclaimed National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.
After 12 years at the helm, longtime PI Chairman Karsten Schneider handed over the reins to Xaver Schmidt, who was unanimously elected as the new Chairman. Topics like process automation and network security were focal points during the many discussions.
New products this month include: an IO-Link configurator from PocketCodr; IO-Link Masters and IO-Link Safety from Phoenix Contact; load cells with IO-Link from Mettler Toledo; functional safety and Ethernet-APL evaluation boards from MESCO; and indicators and converters for IO-Link and PROFINET from motrona.
Sometimes wires just are not an option and there is a need for a wireless solution. Such is the case in this application story where an adaptive packaging machine required wireless to meet its performance goals. See how IO-Link Wireless helped meet the company's objectives.
The annual independent notary recording of installed products with interfaces using technology from PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) yielded very positive numbers for 2022. This is especially true for PROFINET and IO-Link, but PROFIsafe achieved a considerable increase over the previous year as well.
On June 13th a no-cost IO-Link user workshop will be held in Greenville, SC, USA. On June 21st the IO-Link Members Assembly will be held in Bad Soden, Germany. Register today and join us.
Companies with new products to announce this month include: Rockwell Automation, Alicat Scientific, Sewio, Indu-Sol, Gefran, WAGO, and Pepperl+Fuchs. Find out what's available.
Xaver Schmidt (Siemens AG) was newly elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prof. Dr. Felix Hackelöer (TH Köln/Gummersbach) and Harald Müller (Endress+Hauser) were also newly elected as board members. Frank Moritz (Sick AG) was re-elected to the Board of Directors.
