What does digital transformation mean for industrial networks? How can a future-proof networking strategy help companies go digital? What are the trends in automation networks that are shaping digitalization?
Download this White Paper to gain an overview of PROFINET Application Profiles. It explains the details and mechanisms for the most commonly implemented Application Profiles: PROFIsafe, PROFIenergy, and PROFIdrive.
This month we are featuring five exciting new products –many with functional safety capabilities. Don’t miss this month’s new product announcements from Turck, Phoenix Contact, Murrelektronik, EVT, and ABB.
As 5G becomes available in the consumer world, industry leaders are engineering solutions to implement 5G in industrial applications. Ericsson and Audi are testing 5G ultra-reliable low-latency communication and Qualcomm and Siemens have set up the first 5G private standalone network in an industrial environment.
This article features new products from Endress+Hauser, Phoenix Contact, Omron, Pepperl+Fuchs, Sick, Yamaha Motors, and WEG. Learn about new gateways, robot controllers, drives, smart cameras, and liquid analytic devices that are just hitting the market.
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Have you used I&M records during a PROFINET project? I&M records are data blocks stored internally in each PROFINET device. The records contain useful information about a particular device and might be expanded to provide further detail. Learn about PROFINET I&M data records with this article.
In cooperation with the OPC Foundation, PI has completed the technical work for “OPC Unified Architecture, Part 15: Safety”. It allows for vendor-neutral failsafe machine-to-machine communication that until now had been missing.
Understanding how the ‘black channel principle’ ensures safety-related messages get from their source to their destination and IO-Link’s role in simplifying the sensor-to-cloud connection are two trends to watch in 2020 and beyond.
