With its bidirectional communication between intelligent field devices and host systems, HART has become a global standard. The example of valves shows how important the data provided by field devices ...

Time savings of up to 60%.

In Profinet applications, the Axioline F bus coupler is the link between the Axioline F system and the higher-level Ethernet system. As Phoenix Contact’s first Profinet bus coupler, the TPS version of ...

Bring serial interfaces into the era of Industry 4.0.

Siemens has extended its portfolio of industrial routers with the Scalance M804PB, which allows existing machines and plants to be connected to Ethernet networks via Profibus/MPI (multi-point interface). ...

The Swiss A4 highway is an important transit route for north-south traffic. Every day, over 25 000 vehicles use the northern section of the A4 that also serves as the Schaffhausen expressway and is a ...

The promise of Industry 4.0 and the IIoT is that they can harness this shift, along with the global connectivity platform of the Internet, and recent IP stack extensions such as Time Sensitive Networking ...

IO-Link supports predictive maintenance strategy with flexibility in the Industry 4.0 era.

Industry 4.0 is the digital transformation that is characterised as the fourth industrial revolution. The perception of a revolution is that it is a fast process, dramatically changing the current situation ...

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.