PI is looking forward to a personal reunion with the community. SPS 2021 offers this opportunity, and PI's joint booth will have some innovations to offer in Nuremberg on Nov 23-25, 2021 in Hall 5 at Booth 210. The IO-Link members' general meeting will also take place in Nuremberg on Nov 26.

Once again, a group of companies has banded together to create a vendor-independent standard and found a home in PI to promote, harmonize, and certify their technology. This time it’s a collection of the world’s foremost industrial robot manufacturers.

Until the launch of 5G, every previous generation of mobile phone technology was primarily intended to improve the operation of the mobile handset. The recent installation of 5G networks marks the first time that a new generation of mobile technology has been built around the needs of machines and systems rather than handset users.

In today's interconnected and mobile world, everything moves. If you are considering implementing or upgrading an existing RTLS, consider an omlox RTLS. The standardized interfaces ensure a sustainable and long-lasting solution, while the openness leads to lower upfront costs and overall TCO.

The PI community is investing serious commitment and lots of resources into the further development of testing tools for PROFINET certification – tools that are now available in new current versions of the test bundles. With the new PROFINET test bundle, another milestone was reached on the road to complete test automation. Learn more here...

PI has long been thinking about how new industrial communication requirements can be integrated into the existing networks without the proven solutions being compromised or having to be painstakingly rebuilt. The pragmatic proposal: Just do it!

PI is proud to introduce a uniform data interface between PLCs and robot controllers to make robot programming easier and more efficient for manufacturers of both PLCs and robots, and of course, for the PLC programmers themselves.