SRCI Update: Vendor Map, New Logo and Website
SRCI (Standard Robot Command Interface) is one of PI’s technologies that is revolutionizing a big technology market – we are talking about the robotics industry. With SRCI, PI is providing the f...
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2023 Node Count Sets New Records
In its annual survey of newly installed nodes, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) reports outstanding growth figures for its technologies. PROFIsafe and IO-Link in particular are showing impre...
New Products 1/2 – June 2024
Click on a headline or image below to learn more about a given new product. Ethernet-APL Field Switch Released Softing Industrial announces the presentation of its new “aplSwitch Field”. This st...
New Products 2/2 – June 2024
Click on a headline or image below to learn more about a given new product. Linear Displacement Transducer with PROFINET Temposonics has announced a new generation of sensors focused on Industry...
What’s Really Behind the IT / OT Divide
IT / OT convergence is here to stay whether we like it or not. There have been lots of articles about how to deal with convergence and lots of stories about how one side did this or that to the other...
IO-Link and mioty: The Best of Both Worlds
In the summer of 2023, the IO-Link community and mioty alliance resolved to collaborate and cooperate more closely in the future. The focus of this cooperation is the end user, who is to benefit from...
PI at Hannover Messe 2024
With more than 130,000 visitors from 150 countries and 4,000 exhibiting companies, Hannover Messe 2024 (HMI2024) continued to be an important and global meeting place for industry professionals. The s...
New Products – May 2024
Click on a headline or image below to learn more about a given new product Signal Tower with IO-Link With 20 RGB LED slices, 21 adjustable colors and ten different light patterns, the Modlight60 ...
PI: Standards for Interoperability, Scaling and Innovation
Even after a little more than a year at PNO/PI, I am continually impressed by how our standards for the interoperability of industrial communication solutions lead to scaling and thus diversity and at...
No Digitalization Without PROFINET
Reliable data preparation and provisioning – The expectations of digitalization are enormous. Many people forget that the necessary data must be available in such a way that it can be used by a contro...