The industrial digital transformation requires data from automation technology in order to implement the Industrie 4.0 vision. In practice, the source and destination of this data is primarily sensors, actuators and controllers. The volume of data currently being generated and processed at industrial production plants is quickly growing as Industrie 4.0 progresses. The quantity structures […]
Industry 4.0 applications live off of connectivity and the exchange of data between the IT and OT levels. This makes it possible to create new business models and increase productivity, with plant and data security naturally taking center stage. This is one reason why PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) started addressing the topic of security […]
As standards organisations and suppliers push the modular automation idea forward, the future of automation seems in the direction of the re-imagining of complicated tasks and automation infrastructures into subsets of seamless configurable building blocks. The concept of modularity in automation hardware and software program has been a protracted sought-after goal in manufacturing industries. Modularity […]
Investing on the education system would determine Australia’s future which is why the Labor’s has promised to spend $1.1 billion on higher education where some of the money would fund 20,000 university. 465,00 TAFE courses will be offered for free by the Labor that will target the hospitality and tourism sector which was the most […]
Energy is one of the biggest costs in automotive manufacturing. It’s also under various pressures, such as security of supply. Governments are becoming concerned about climate change and are calling on manufacturing industries to reduce their carbon footprint. In light of this PROFIBUS organisation and PROFINET International (PI) were asked to provide functions and mechanisms […]
The below video demonstrates more about how to integrate safety and reduce system complexity at the same time! The protection of humans, production equipment and the environment is a major topic for each type of industrial application. Different measures have to be applied in order to comply with the large variety of laws and regulations. […]