About five years ago, B&R was one of the co-initiators of the "Shapers" - in other words, a supporter of the TSN movement for the industry from the very beginning. What has happened since then in terms of TSN at B&R? Elmar Zimmerling provides an overview.
read more...Three years after its launch, the OPC Foundation's Field Level Communications (FLC) initiative has now completed the second release candidate - a multi-vendor installation demonstrates the progress made.
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read more...With the TSN Testbed, the ISW in Stuttgart is supporting the establishment of a deterministic and open network standard in production facilities. Florian Frick describes the status quo.
read more...smartLink HW-DP from Softing enables the integration of Industry 4.0 applications in Profibus and HART systems.
read more...Despite last-minute cancellations by well-known companies, around 700 exhibitors are still coming to Nuremberg. Festo and ifm have confirmed their participation. A comprehensive hygiene concept and an FFP2 mask requirement ensure the highest possible level of safety.
read more...ifm is launching 6-port switches for all common automation protocols and IIoT applications.
read more...With maxx GW4102, IoTmaxx is launching a robust industrial IoT gateway with PLC extension.
read more...The CPC12 bus controller from E-T-A has a separate 24 V (DC) power supply and thus enables an independent supply to the circuit breakers and records all status information and measured values.
read more...Siemens and Merck want to enable machines to communicate more and better with each other in order to ensure the quality of manufactured products.
read more...Bihl+Wiedemann at the SPS 2021
The latest addition to the family of ASi-5/ASi-3 fieldbus gateways from Bihl+Wiedemann is the ASi-5/ASi-3 openSafety via Powerlink Gateway BWU3865.
read more...With XPlanar, Beckhoff opens up new degrees of freedom in product handling: free-floating planar movers move over individually arranged planar tiles on freely programmable travel paths.
read more...The EDR-G9010 series from Moxa comprises complete solutions certified for industrial use comprising firewall/NAT/VPN/switch/router as a first 'line of defense' for industrial networks.
read more...To reduce the complexity of M2M applications and achieve fast results, ICPDAS-Europe now offers pre-configured M2M solutions.
read more...The combination of the numerous interfaces of the IoTmaxx gateways and the intuitive user interface of the Anyviz cloud makes it possible to set up the visualization of machine data in just a few minutes.
read more...OPC UA and MQTT have become established for accessing data from automation devices from the IT level in a production plant. Device manufacturers must therefore implement both IIoT protocols in addition to the traditional fieldbuses. Not an easy task.
read more...The BTL-certified ASi BACnet/IP controller with integrated safety unit up to SIL3 BWU4001 from Bihl+Wiedemann combines the advantages of BACnet, ASi and ASi Safety in one device.
read more...B&R is expanding the X90 product line with three option boards that enable the connection of strain gages and an IO-Link master module to the control system for mobile machines.
read more...The MD7 system from Leuze can be used to implement automation in the Smart Factory via IO-Link masters, hubs and sensors.
read more...Ethernet with an Advanced Physical Layer (Ethernet-APL) enables long cable lengths, explosion protection, communication and power supply via two wires. The first devices with this interface are now coming onto the market.
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