The PI Konferenz in Germany welcomes everyone interested in digitalization with respect to industry! Join us at the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) in Frankfurt / Main, Germany on March 22-23, 2023.

Work on IO-Link Safety has progressed, and the relevant specifications are now complete; first devices will follow shortly. On May 9–11, 2023, in cooperation with TÜV-SÜD, the IO-Link Community will offer a training to become an IO-Link Safety Certified Designer.

Read about how and why PROFINET is a critical industrial communication technology for the digital transformation in the first of this two part series. Hint: it's about future-proofing: by enabling coexistence through a single network infrastructure.

For users, the Standard Robot Command Interface (SRCI) offers the possibility to write robot programs completely in the PLC. Together with PLCopen and the companion specifications of the OPC Foundation and the VDMA, the SRCI is shaping the future of robot programming.

Dietmar Bohn is the new managing director of the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO) and is leading both the PNO business office and the PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) Support Center in Karlsruhe, Germany, together with Dr. Peter Wenzel.

PI North America is proud to welcome Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, as its newest omlox member.

Our top-5 list of articles from 2022 include those covering 10BASE-T1L, IO-Link Safety, Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), the 2021 annual Node Count, and of course: New Products. Read on to recap and review.

The major standards development organizations (SDOs) OPC Foundation, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI), ODVA, and FieldComm Group have announced the release of the first Whitepaper of their joint working group, the Industrial Ethernet Security Harmonization Group (IESHG).