Over 250 members of our community gathered in Frankfurt, Germany for the biennial PI Konferenz under the motto ‘Compatibility and Interoperability for the Digital Factory – with Security, Safety, Energy and Analytics’.

New PROFINET products to announce this month include draw wire encoders from Turck, device management software from Emerson, industrial switches from Alacatel-Lucent Enterprise, and stepper motor controllers from Acromag.

SRCI (Standard Robot Command Interface) continues its expansion with KUKA announcing its software interface tool now includes the technology.

Don’t miss part 2 of our PROFINET over APL webinar series where we dive deeper into the topics around the use of PROFINET with Ethernet-APL.

Learn how PROFINET supports high availability with system redundancy and network redundancy –plus flexibility to support the highest reliability requirements.

The omlox standard is moving fast with lots of new capability and products. See omlox in action via a new Accenture demo.

Fagus-GreCon, a manufacturer of fire prevention technology, and MESCO Engineering, have created an innovative, highly integrated system that relies on SPE, PROFINET and PROFIsafe.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has implemented S2 redundancy for their PROFINET Communication Module by adopting Hilscher’s comX embedded module, thereby improving the availability of process control plants.