New Products – November 2022

With the SPS tradeshow, there is a wave of new products to announce this month from: Turck, Omron, LAPP, KUNBUS, HMS Networks, CoreTigo, BEx-Solution, and Baumer.

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Fits Together like a Pot and Its Lid: Dunkermotoren & PROFINET

PROFINET is fast, transparent and future-oriented, making it an excellent fit for drive technology manufacturers like Dunkermotoren. The integration of the complete electronics into the motor housing offers a super-compact overall solution with synchronous communication and eliminates the need for costly gateways.

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omlox Activities Update

Lots of omlox activity this month, from PI and omlox exhibiting at IMTS in Chicago, to a new omlox reference installation in Germany, to new technology and updates from an omlox hub software provider, Flowcate. Read all the latest here.

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New Products 2/2 – July 2022 [IO-Link]

New IO-Link products to announce this month include: combined humidity and temperature sensors from Turck; pressure, level, and temperature sensors from Euroswitch; rotary encoders from POSITAL; thermal flowmeters from E+E Elektronik; and optoelectronic sensors from Balluff.

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The Latest Happenings with TSN

Recent events at Hannover Messe 2022 revealed the latest on PROFINET over TSN and progress towards a common TSN test plan for all industrial protocols using the IEC/IEEE 60802 TSN profile for Industrial Automation.

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New Products – June 2022

Lots of new products to announce this month from: Emerson, Softing, Deutschmann Automation, Advanced Energy Industries, Phoenix Contact, ifm electronic, Grid Connect, Real Time Automation, Pozyx, and NXP.

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News Roundup from PI Brazil – March 2022

Updates from PI Brazil: An Ethernet-APL Board has been set up to promote and support the technology in process automation plants; IO-Link teaching kits have been built and are ready for use; and a new Working Group has been formed addressing cables and connection technology in industrial networks.

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Power Follows Bus

While fieldbus wiring has become decentralized, power supply wiring has stuck to the central wiring approach. New standards such as «M12-Power» now allow the power supply to follow the network wiring. This structured wiring for power and bus can be well described as «Power follows Bus».

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