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Siemens has announced its figures for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018: Group-wide, comparable sales were on a par with the previous year. Broken down into the individual business units, 'Digital Factory' recorded the highest growth.
read more...At SPS IPC Drives 2017, the Ethercat Technology Group (ETG) presented its approach on how Ethercat will use TSN technologies. Now the switch manufacturers Moxa, Hirschmann, Hilscher and Xilinx have expressed their support for this approach.
read more...Industrial Ethernet communication
Everyone is talking about Ethernet TSN. At Hannover Messe 2018, Siemens is now also using a robotics trade fair model to demonstrate how OPC UA Pub/Sub based on TSN is used at the control level.
read more...The OPC Foundation has released Part 14 of the OPC UA standard: known as Publish-Subscribe or "PubSub" for short. The specification extends the preferred area of application of OPC UA to include a wide range of advanced use cases down to the lowest field level.
read more...What does Industry 4.0 mean for sensor manufacturer Sick? Dr. Robert Bauer, CEO of Sick, comments on the need for openness and problems with standardization.
read more...In terms of newly installed nodes in factory automation, Industrial Ethernet has overtaken traditional fieldbuses. This is the conclusion of the latest study by HMS Industrial Networks on the market share of industrial networks.
read more...eks Engel has developed the e-light 1000XS-G and e-light 1000XS-GP Ethernet media converters specifically for industrial applications such as networking machines or connecting IP cameras.
read more...The Ko²SiBus research project aims to develop new methods for the cost-effective monitoring of data lines in running industrial plants. On February 21, representatives of the consortium met to exchange information.
read more...The Ethernet protocols familiar from the office world are increasingly finding their way into factory and process automation. But which of the office-compatible redundancy protocols are also suitable for the industrial environment?
read more...Kunbus launched the 'Revolution Pi' platform - 'Revpi' for short - just over a year ago. Sales Manager Andreas Müller talks about the status quo and what's new at embedded world 2018.
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