SRCI: a Win-Win-Win for Robot Automation
Introduction The adoption of robots in modern production lines to increase automation and reduce costs is growing at a rapid pace. This includes the large robot lines often seen in the automotiv...
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IO-Link Interoperability Workshop Sees Record Participation
For the 21st time now, the IO-Link community has met for a two-day interoperability workshop. The annual event, which took place in Bad Soden, Germany, saw a new participation record: 130 participants...
New Products – November 2023
Smart Lithium Battery with PROFINET Hellpower Energy is launching a PROFINET-enabled battery that seamlessly integrates into existing PROFINET systems and overcomes traditional communication barriers....
PROFINET Ecosystem Forum: Fast out the Gate
With the total PROFINET node count coming in at close to 60 million nodes by the end of 2022, it’s safe to say at this point in 2023 the grand total has surpassed 70 million –and therefore the venerab...
PROFIsafe for OPC UA – The networking of machines becomes fail-safe
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 sti...
IO-Link Wireless specification completed
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...
Into the world of wireless with IO-Link
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...
PI hosts two international PROFINET webinars at the summer solstice!
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 a...
On the safe side with IO-Link Safety
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 s...
PROFIsafe goes Ethernet-APL Common network for non-safety and safety applications
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 appli...
ISA100 WCI, NAMUR, ODVA, PI, VDMA, and ZVEI Plan to Partner with FieldComm Group and OPC Foundation to Collaboratively Develop the Process Automation Device Information Model Standard
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 Devi...
omlox moves on to the next round with version 2.0
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,...