Read about how the many PI technologies – from PROFINET and IO-Link to application profiles like PROFIsafe and the PA Profile – are supporting industrial AI.

PROFINET’s continued market leadership is the result of consistent technological advancement and a high pace of innovation within the PI Community. Check out the results of the latest Omdia study.

New products to announce this month include: multi-touch displays with IO-Link from Banner Engineering; secure communication modules for PROFINET from Hilscher; machine-mount power supplies with IO-Link from Omron; and ATEX-Certified pressure transmitters with IO-Link from AMSYS.

Installing PROFINET has many great advantages. Read about how redundancy helps semiconductor manufacturers keep the fabs running with maximum uptime.

Join PI at the SPS trade fair in November in Nuremberg, Germany. For PI members, there are several ways to participate in our joint booth, so find out the details here.

The omlox Plugfest & Conference Day 2026 was aimed at validating the interoperability of omlox components from different manufacturers under real-world conditions. Have a look at the various outcomes.

First, there is the IO-Link Interop in Bad Soden, Germany on Sep 22–23. Next up is the IO-Link User Workshop in Budapest, Hungary on Oct 15. Finally, there is the IO-Link Forum in Walldorf-Wiesloch, Germany on Oct 21. Join us.

Forklifts move constantly — but their data rarely does. Most fleets are still managed on instinct: idle time goes unnoticed, actual routes are never compared to planned ones, and safety hotspots only surface after an incident. A new multi-vendor solution closes that gap, and it does so on based on the omlox standard.