FDT en route for Industry 4.0
On Wednesday of the show FDT Group presented its vision for further development of FDT towards Industry 4.0/IIoT. The highlights - a special IIoT server, and release of two FDT specifications.
mehr...mehr...Cooperating on Internet of Things
At the show Eaton announced its cooperation with T-Systems on Internet of Things (IoT). The shared objective is to present builders of machinery and plant with safe and secure solutions to networking their systems in the cloud.
mehr...KVM creates virtual infrastructures
With its KVM technology Black Box intends to both enhance processes and create a longer infrastructure lifecycle.
mehr...Capability up to SIL 2/3
Endress+Hauser goes to market again with a radar device for continuous level measurement – for the first time with 80 GHz working frequency for the process industry. Markus Schmid, department manager for level measurement product marketing, scans the background for us.
mehr...The fruits of cooperation
Presaged one year back and debuting here: At this year‘s show CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) and PI (Profibus & Profinet International) presented a joint specification of their two networking variants CC-Link IE and Profinet.
mehr...Browsing and programming
IniNet has integrated more functionality in its web HMI editor, creating more possibilities for browser-based HMI programming. Advantages of this integration, and working with the Revolution Pi platform from Kunbus are detailed by managing director Peter Brügger.
mehr...Ethernet cycling at 4 µs
To date, industrial Ethernet protocols have enabled cyclic communication with field devices in a two- or three-digit microsecond span. Texas Instruments now intends to push this limit a whole way down.
mehr...Sensor technology 4.0 – what next?
Data are the real 'treasure' when working Industry 4.0. Delivering them is usually the job of sensor technology. The future demands facing producers and users when it comes to this are explained here by Bernhard Müller, member of the Sick executive.
mehr...Process visualization takes a big step forward
Process visualization in augmented reality: An application example from Inosoft showed how the Microsoft HoloLens can support workers in operating and servicing a machine.
mehr...Software construction guidelines — latest results
Although there are construction guidelines for many programming languages, they are virtually non-existent when it comes to industrial control (IEC 61131-3 and its PLCopen extensions).
mehr...
