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New research from Omdia has once again placed PROFINET at the head of the industrial Ethernet protocol market. Despite a fast-changing landscape, the technology has held its leading position, which …

The IO-Link Community has achieved an important milestone in advancing IO-Link Safety: TÜV SÜD has successfully tested and officially approved the IO-Link Safety specification V1.1.4. This establishes the groundwork for …

The yearly survey of recently installed nodes carried out by PI (Profibus International) indicates steady growth in its technologies relative to earlier years. Despite periods of economic and structural transformation, …

Virtual controllers and devices are a good example of IT/OT convergence and play an important role for PROFINET in automation technology. With the technological advances in virtualization technologies and the …

The experts at PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) have successfully completed all activities for the use of PROFINET in hazardous applications in process automation. The final step here was provision …

Following the great success of last year’s meeting, the Get Together for Robotics conference was held once again this year. The event had a large number of online participants, around …

PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) now offers a signing service for GSD files for the improved security protection of machines and systems. This is a component of a comprehensive security …

The annual independent notary recording of installed products with interfaces using technology from PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) yielded very positive numbers for 2022. This is especially true for PROFINET …

Ifak, HMS, NXP and Radisys implemented a PROFINET network over 5G. This testbed evaluates whether failsafe applications are possible on a 5G NPN (Non-Private Network) and how does the network …

The first multi-vendor live demo with IO-Link Safety will be demonstrated at the joint PI stand at the SPS trade fair in Nuremberg – Germany (Hall 5, 210). Eight manufacturing …

Many medium-sized companies, whether in the food industry, the packaging industry or electronics suppliers, are increasingly turning to robot-assisted applications (pick & place). However, if you take a look at …

Over the past two years, a wide variety of different experts at PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) have been heavily engaged with the integration of TSN into PROFINET, which is …

IO-Link is a prerequisite for Industry 4.0 and the fastest growing technology in the industrial automation field internationally. There are now more than 22,000 different products with more than 27 …

Despite more than two years of uncertainties as a result of the pandemic, manufacturers of products using technology from PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) have reported very positive figures for …

Industrial network planning is a complicated task and has to take many different aspects into account. Various TSN demonstrators, testbeds, and case studies are very valuable in this process, especially …