In August 2015, Rafael Koenig, Chairman of Profibus Australia, presented at the Future Networks Forum, part of the Westwick Farrow ACI Connect event, to an audience of automation, control, and instrumentation professionals, about Profinet’s role in Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things.
When you think about how to keep grain operations running smoothly with zero downtime and no undetected safety hazards or unnecessary operating costs, the Internet of Things is probably not…
The official theme of this year’s Fair was “Integrated Industry – Join the Network” but the real theme was “Industry 4.0,” sometimes spelled the German way "Industrie 4.0." And PROFINET,…
A new partnership between the IO-Link community and the mioty alliance aims to seamlessly integrate the mioty technology into the world of IO-Link with the aim of enabling low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies for industrial IO-Link applications.
New IO-Link products to announce this month include: control buttons from Pizzato; connectivity for pneumatic valve systems from Emerson Aventics; optical distance sensors from ifm electronic; and welding force calibration transmitters from Kistler.
New products this month include: new I/O modules from Belden; a new MTP Suite from COPA DATA; omlox hub software and omlox core zone hardware from TRUMPF Tracking Technologies; PROFIsafe encoders from TR electronic; and MTP training from Semodia.
Read about how gateways are enabling Industry 4.0 and opening up digital transformation for process plants.
omlox V2.0 now also includes support for IEEE 802.15.4z in the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) range. This is another milestone in the technological development of omlox, as it makes the standard compatible with the UWB chips used in the consumer smartphone industry.
