The IO-Link Community came together in Frankfurt am Main, Germany for their annual Members' Assembly. A new Steering Committee was elected with participation by 18 active companies helping drive IO-Link success into the future.
Rapid advances in technology are now awaiting adoption by industry. But creating technology merely for technology’s sake serves the few rather than the many. Focusing instead on addressing use-cases has proven effective, but something more is needed for adoption to occur. And that is: ease-of-use.
The SmartFactoryOWL offers companies and research institutes the possibility to co-create technologies for future factories while providing a real lab for fulfilling the promise of Industry 4.0. To this end, a real-time locating system (RTLS) based on omlox has been installed.
Advanced digitalization is requiring that automation solutions – which previously functioned on a local scale – increasingly network the various different production plants at a site and across multiple sites, even beyond the boundaries of manufacturing companies. How can PI help?
With focus shifting steadily to environmentally friendly manufacturing, industry consortia are coming together to provide a common way to communicate energy consumption data for industrial automation systems. Here, PROFIenergy is key.
Recent events at Hannover Messe 2022 revealed the latest on PROFINET over TSN and progress towards a common TSN test plan for all industrial protocols using the IEC/IEEE 60802 TSN profile for Industrial Automation.
1. PI (omlox), AIM (AutoID), and the OPC Foundation (OPC UA) will collaborate on a 'Global Positioning' Specification. 2. A demo using omlox and VDA 5050 is orchestrating AGV fleet management. 3. Finally, omlox is maximizing forklift efficiency in a separate demo.
With the impressive growth of IO-Link, companies are now adding IO-Link Safety products to their portfolio and TÜV Süd has joined the IO-Link Community to support the certification of these devices.
