The company Adeptor, in Norway recently passed the accreditation process to become a PI Competence Center for PROFINET. Separately, ifak e.V., in Germany celebrated its 25th anniversary as a PI Test Lab, with particular focus on process control.
Plug & Produce and access to semantically rich data for complete package units and machines: Nothing less than that, is the promise of the MTP technology. Learn more and see a demonstration in this 2 min video.
The demand for industrial communication will grow enormously, including with regard to new applications. And Industrial Ethernet, which sits in the middle of this value chain, will play a big role with all these applications and is a crucial factor in the digitization of industry.
New PROFINET products to announce this month include: remote I/O from Festo; AC inverter drives from Parker Hannifin; Ethernet-APL terminals from Beckhoff; Gigabit Ethernet PHYs from Microchip Technology; and servo motors from Siemens.
New IO-Link products to announce this month include: control buttons from Pizzato; connectivity for pneumatic valve systems from Emerson Aventics; optical distance sensors from ifm electronic; and welding force calibration transmitters from Kistler.
In addition to the standards and specifications available from PI, occasionally accompanying documents are often produced, for example as articles in technical journals or as conference papers. Regarding PROFINET Security and PROFINET over APL, these papers are now organized on the PI website.
When I first encountered the topic of IO-Link 18 years ago, uniform communication at the sensor-actuator level was at a tipping point. It was basically clear to everyone that you can only win with a uniform standard. We almost didn't succeed in creating the IO-Link you know today...
New PROFINET products to announce this month include: the first Ethernet-APL devices from Endress+Hauser; easy device development from RT-Labs; passive network data tapping from Hilscher; and small form-factor SCARA robots from Mecademic.