The current profichip brand communication chips from Yaskawa include the all-in-one chip Triton, the multi-fieldbus communication chip Antaios, the slice bus slave controller Notos and the world's smallest Profibus ASIC VPC3+S.
read more...As part of our printed edition, we would like to share the latest supplement from the Profibus Nutzerorganisation e.V. with you. Here you can find the PI magazine as an e-paper.
read more...A major project is starting at the Technical University of Munich that aims to lay the most important foundations for the 6G standard. Project manager Prof. Wolfgang Kellerer explains in an interview what is important in the development of the next generation of mobile communications.
read more...Westermo, a business unit of the Swedish Beijer Group and a company specializing in data communication products for mission-critical systems, has acquired Eltec Elektronik.
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...A standardized approach for combining the DDS and TSN standards is currently being developed. However, there are also reasons to use DDS and TSN together today.
read more...On March 1, the VDMA founded a new working group, Wireless Communications for Machines, or AG WCM for short, which focuses on wireless communication solutions in mechanical and plant engineering.
read more...Kontron is expanding its Industrial Ethernet solutions with the KSwitch family of switches. The industrial-grade switches are available for the long term.
read more...Deutsche Messe AG's exhibition center in Hanover will have its own 5G campus network this year. It will be the largest 5G exhibition center and one of the largest 5G campus networks in Europe in terms of area.
read more...The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT is working with partners from the fields of mechanical engineering, network technology and robotics to develop an end-to-end real-time communication infrastructure based on 5G mobile technology and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN).
read more...On April 1, 2021, Jörg Theis will take over the management of B&R, ABB's Machine Automation division. He takes over from Clemens Sager, who has headed the division ad interim since January 1, 2021.
read more...Industry 4.0 has established itself as a trend for factory automation. The aim is to achieve greater convergence and transparency between IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology). Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) technology is an important building block here.
read more...Spectra is launching the IGS-624HPT industrial Ethernet switch, which offers a total of six Gigabit Ethernet ports, four of which support Po-E+ and two of which are designed as SFP ports.
read more...Moxa has introduced a new series of secure, hardened Modbus-to-BACnet protocol gateways for critical energy communications.
read more...The compact WiFi-C and WiFi-Pro WLAN adapters from Sigmatek enable efficient and wireless CPU communication.
read more...Two years after its launch in November 2018, the OPC Foundation's Field Level Communications Initiative has completed the initial release candidate for the 'Controller to Controller' use case. What is behind this release and what are the next steps?
read more...In recent years, the TSN/A Conference has developed into the international information and discussion platform for real-time Ethernet par excellence. Become part of the community and submit your presentation!
read more...Over the past few months, the series has taken an in-depth look at all aspects of TSN. The technology has been discussed, trends and developments have been highlighted and controversial organizational and political aspects have not been neglected.
read more...5G can play a key role in the digitalization of manufacturing processes in the future. This series of articles deals with the prerequisites that need to be created for this. The first part deals with the characteristics of 5G and typical applications in manufacturing.
read more...Kempten University of Applied Sciences
Codesys already offers an object-oriented IEC library for implementing PubSub. Kempten University of Applied Sciences has now equipped an Industry 4.0 demonstrator with the communication system. A first field report.
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