The IO-Link master modules for the control cabinet serve as a gateway between intelligent IO-Link sensors and the fieldbus, allowing important information from intelligent sensors to be sent into the ...

A regional substation was tasked with improving the substation’s performance and reducing maintenance problems, but without replacing several key serial IEDs already in operation. Since the many RTUs, ...

Weidmuller is successively developing the open, individually scalable automation solution toolbox, u-mation. This allows digital transformation to be achieved independently of any platform. At the core ...

Planning a network’s topology that involves a large number of Modbus devices to achieve full-fledged connectivity can really test designers.

Moxa’s newly launched MGate 5103 and MGate 5111 industrial protocol gateways enable fast and easy protocol conversions between Modbus devices and Profinet or Profibus-based scada systems and PLCs. These ...

With its new EP0L001 IO-Link master, Wenglor offers an ideal, multiprotocol module for consistent communication right up to field level. Eight IO-Link compatible sensors and actuators in accordance with ...

With the EK1000, Beckhoff has expanded the EtherCAT I/O system with a new bus coupler. The device enables the communication of EtherCAT segments with remote EtherCAT controllers via heterogeneous Ethernet ...

With new Profinet functions and versions for the Factory Line Switch 2000 product family, Phoenix Contact has extended its range of managed switches for Profinet automation applications. After a firmware ...

EtherCAT oversampling terminals ensure interoperability with SENT sensors.

Siemens has announced a scalable, end-to-end IoT solution, designed to help oil and gas companies optimise production and reduce costs through connected systems, automation, and analytics at the edge. ...

The TBEN-L-PLC IP69K compact PLC is a protocol converter that translates between CANopen or SAE J1939 and various Ethernet and fieldbus protocols.

Banner Engineering has announced the addition of Profinet communication to its popular SC26-2 and XS26-2 safety controllers. The SC26-2 is a versatile, easy-to-use, and configurable safety controller ...

New 4 and 8-slot Ethernet chassis deliver time-based synchronisation over Ethernet for distributed measurement and test systems.

Two switch types from the RSPE product family by Hirschmann will support Time-Sensitive Networking, an open real-time Ethernet technology.

The most striking change on factory floors is the evolution of machine-to-machine (M2M) communication into system-to-system communication. M2M communication still propels automation significantly when ...

AFL has launched the Rogue cB1 Compact Base, the fastest, most flexible fibre OLTS and OTDR testing platform in the industry. Using state-of-the-art technology, each module is optimised to produce the ...

Belden showed at this year's Hannover Messe how switches supporting Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) are becoming a reality. Prototype TSN-enabled Hirschmann RSPE35 switches that support this open, real ...

The reason Conet is considered by many in the industry to be the most cost-effective data collection network available is its ability to operate on very low-cost cabling (any grade of a 2-core cable) ...

Moxa’s EDS-528E series is a standalone, compact 28-port managed Ethernet switch that provides four combo Gigabit ports with built-in RJ45 or SFP slots for Gigabit fibre-optic communication. The 24 fast ...

The Ruggedcom RX1400 router with MindConnect running in the VPE1400 is a plug-and-play solution that enables users to read out data with OPC UA and/or an S7-connection from their assets and pre-process ...