Transfer rates significantly increased
Deutschmann Automation launches Unigate IC2 Profibus, the first member of the 'Unigate IC2' embedded series. These all-in-one bus nodes are based on ARM Cortex-M4 processor technology.
read more...read more...Arrive in reality!
Time Sensitive Networking has firmly established itself in the vocabulary of the automation industry. All well-known suppliers have started activities to evaluate or even introduce TSN. But where exactly are the goals for the use of TSN and what is actually still missing?
read more...IO-Link for the vacuum
To make electric vacuum generators, grippers or compact ejectors visible for the smart factory, they must supply digital energy and process data in real time. This works using interfaces such as IO-Link, Ethernet or NFC in the vacuum components.
read more...(Ethernet) cables put to the test
The dynamic requirements for cables and the associated energy chains are high. How must (Ethernet) cables be designed so that they can be safely routed in energy chains even under the highest bending stress?
read more...Single Pair Ethernet - suitable for drag chains!
Single-pair Ethernet technology is one of the latest developments in the field of data cables in order to handle the constantly growing volumes of data in production. One of the challenges here is its use in the drag chain.
read more...The potential of the two-core variant
With Single Pair Ethernet, the Internet protocol can penetrate new applications. In industry, this Ethernet variant even has the potential to close the gap between the control level and the sensor/actuator network.
read more...Board member Uwe Gräff steps down
Uwe Gräff, Director of New Technologies and Development at Harting, left the company by mutual agreement at the end of September. He had only been appointed to the Management Board at the beginning of 2019.
read more...Open source stack officially certified
The OPC Foundation has now announced the official certifiability of OPC UA servers based on version 1.0 of the open OPC UA stack open 62541. To date, the stack is the only open implementation of OPC UA programmed entirely in C.
read more...How BMW documents its screwdriving processes
Despite all the automation, the extremely high production variance means that manual assembly steps are still indispensable in the automotive industry. In order to reliably avoid errors here too, BMW uses active process monitoring in its axle production.
read more...OPC UA and DDS combined
To date, OPC UA and DDS have often been presented as competitors. Competitors that will both be based on the Ethernet standard TSN. - However, the key to successful automation in the future lies in a combination of the three standards DDS, OPC UA and TSN.
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