New products this month include: Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) chips from Analog Devices and Texas Instruments; IO-Link chips from Maxim Integrated and STMicroelectronics; upgraded PROFIBUS and PROFINET cables from HELUKABEL; and forked sensors with IO-Link from Leuze.
Condition monitoring and asset management applications require support for potentially remote sensors that need robust communication over a long distance. New SPE physical layer standards completed in the IEEE combined with PROFINET offer new connectivity solutions for communicating asset health insights for condition monitoring applications.
Three Regional PI Associations (RPAs) announce news this month. PI China participated in the CIIF tradeshow in Shanghai in September; PI Brazil has hosted multiple webinars over the past few months; and PI Netherlands recently put on a successful PROFI education week.
My momma raised me right. Growing up, she taught me there are certain topics you avoid expressing your opinions on to just anybody. Those were: religion, politics, and cybersecurity ?. Nowadays though, it’s hard to avoid talking about these topics. Welcome to this security-focused issue of PROFINEWS.
New products this month include: wireless valve systems from Emerson; industrial Ethernet switches from Indu-Sol; multi-parameter transmitters from Mettler Toledo; and laser marking systems from Panasonic.
The open IO-Link standard establishes continuous communication with sensors and actuators irrespective of the fieldbus used. Now, even hydraulic proportional valves can be intelligently, easily and cost-effectively integrated with bi-directional digital communication.
The buzzwords “agility” and “flexibility” are often justifiably uttered in the context of software engineering and, on a higher level, Industry 4.0. I also see the approach and attitude towards day-to-day challenges – as well as strategic ones – that define these terms as an aspiration and activity of our community.
New products this month include unmanaged switches from Phoenix Contact, fork light barriers with IO-Link from ipf electronic, cable/connectors/cordsets from Lcom, and economical radar antennas with PROFIBUS PA from Siemens.