PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) already developed PROFIsafe in the 1990s, making fail-safe communication and transfer of process data possible over the same connection. While many users still regarded the new technology skeptically at the time, it has since gained ground over a wide front. Today, PROFIsafe is the world market leader among safety-oriented protocols. […]
IO-Link is the first technology for communicating with sensors and actuators below the fieldus level to be adopted as an international standard (IEC 61131-9). This technology has now been expanded to include wireless communication. The IO-Link community has completed work on the specifications for IO-Link Wireless and will publish an approved version at the 2018 […]
At the end of June this year, an IO-Link Wireless workshop at Helmut-Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany concluded with great success. More than 60 participants learned about IO-Link Wireless over the course of two days. The goal was to give participants a greater understanding of the technology and put them in a position to develop […]
PROFINET is the open, manufacturer-independent industrial Ethernet standard for production and process automation. Thanks to its scalable communication, it offers optimal performance and flexibility and meets all the requirements for the use of Ethernet in industrial automation. To support manufacturers in developing PROFINET devices and their product range and to design implementation to be easy […]
The safety of people, the machines and the environment is the top priority for every system. IO-Link Safety expands IO-Link to include a safe communication layer. As a result, automated machines and systems can now be enhanced with functional safe components and communication through IO-Link as well. IO-Link connection and transmission technology can still be […]
For decades, the chemical industry has been making extremely high efforts to guarantee safety for people and the environment. The infrastructures for process and operations management and safety applications are strictly separated. These two worlds differed technologically as well, as only 4-20 mA was available for safety applications. With the combination of Ethernet-APL and PROFIsafe, […]
Major standards development and end user organizations serving the process automation industry announce today ongoing collaboration work on the specification for a standardized Process Automation Device Information Model (PA-DIM®). Participating organizations plan to share ownership of the specification and collaboratively participate in the PA-DIM working group, hosted at FieldComm Group, creating enhancements and extensions to […]
omlox, the world’s only open and manufacturer-independent tracking standard, has now been released in version 2.0. omlox is also establishing itself as the primary data source for location-based data, both in the industrial field and beyond. Thanks to cooperation with other associations, like the OPC Foundation and the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA), the vision […]
Augmented reality (AR) has been around since the 1970s when it was first introduced in pilot helmets and general industrial purpose since 1990. The technology consists superimposes computer graphics onto a user’s real-world perspective. The computer image could be real, entirely simulated or potentially exist in the past/future. Superimposing this information on the current perspective […]
Schildknecht, AG has gained experience with all radio technologies in many thousands of projects since 1993. It is one of the main reasons why we recommended Bluetooth 5.0. It is the most robust and interference-resistant radio technology. Users see this in high system availability, comparable to that of a cable, with no fieldbus faults. However, […]