New products this month include Nord’s PROFIsafe module for increased safety, Phoenix Contact’s bus coupler becoming PROFINET v2.3 ready, and PROCENTEC releasing its Mercury for sale with new features.
It is interesting how Hype Topics evolve, and how some of them then vanish shortly afterward. Looking towards functional safety, it turns out that this is not to be considered a hype topic as such, but as a key ingredient for successful automation solutions.
Lots of new products to announce this month from: ABB, Arrow Electronics, Coval, HBM, Hilscher, Indu-Sol, MESCO, and Vivace.
Learn about all the new devices available for PROFIBUS, PROFINET, and IO-Link.
The conventional safety PLC concept meant that normal PLCs and standard I/O could not be mixed with safety PLCs and safety components in the same network. But what about the combined safety principle?
Last year we featured over 15 application stories in PROFINEWS and we look forward to publicizing more PROFIBUS, PROFINET, and IO-Link installation news. If you think your application pushed the limits and you want to feature it, we are here for you! Submit your story!
Impressive numbers from PI’s latest node count audit. PROFINET devices exceeded 20M, PROFIsafe continued a very positive trend, IO-Link achieved a record in two regards: device count and growth.
Join us in Hall 9, Booth D68 at Hannover Messe 2018! Learn about: PROFINET@TSN with a live demonstration, how PI is approaching Security, and where OPC UA fits in with a new video. See you there!
This month’s New Products article features the first inclinometer with PROFIsafe from TWK, two new motion control components with PROFINET connectivity from Siemens, and two process instruments with PROFIBUS PA connectivity from Vivace.
