Even during a year faced with coronavirus-related challenges, the 2020 node count for PROFINET, PROFIBUS, IO-Link, and PROFIsafe show promising results. Read this article to get the exact node count numbers.

The essential and successful IODDfinder has been enhanced with a new feature: IODDviewer. The IODDviewer enables easy, centralized access to documentation and information on IO-Link devices. In other words, IODDs now no longer need to be downloaded and possibly installed to just view a device function.

PI Germany has just wrapped up its first virtual PI Konferenz. The four-day conference included 80 experts, 70 lectures, 8 workshops, and a podium discussion. Nearly 1200 people registered, and registration is ongoing, with all lectures recorded and made available to the public. Learn about the topics covered.

The volumes of data being generated in industrial production systems are increasing tremendously. Advanced asset management, condition monitoring, and AI-based devices require huge amounts of data. In this challenging environment, information models play a critical role in ordering data.

To promote interoperability between AutoID technologies, software systems, and solutions, AIM and omlox are pleased to announce their cooperation. Omlox benefits from comprehensive expertise in the field of identification, while AIM benefits through the integration of ultra-wideband into its technologies.

In the past, not much value was placed on the localization of equipment, load carriers, or tools in production. Existing solutions were too imprecise, too expensive, or not reliable. Now a new day is dawning with the omlox industrial location standard.

The PNO will hold its seventh PI-Konferenz from March 15 to 18, 2021; this time, it will take place virtually. The guiding theme "Process goes Digital" addresses the many innovations and great progress in process automation in the era of digitalization.