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The IO-Link community has set up a technical working group to specify the integration of IO-Link in OPC UA based on existing use cases. A final proposal for a corresponding Companion Specification (draft for voting) should be available in 2018.
read more...Profibus User Organization (PNO)
The Profibus User Organization (PNO) has elected its Board of Directors and Advisory Board for the next three-year term of office. In addition to two re-elected board members, there was also one new appointment.
read more...The Profibus User Organization (PNO) has announced the figures for nodes installed in 2016. Ethernet-based Profinet technology overtook Profibus for the first time. IO-Link recorded the highest percentage growth.
read more...The fifth PI Conference took place in Frankfurt at the end of March. The central question during the two-day event: What role can Profibus and Profinet play in the networking of Industry 4.0 in the future?
read more...New possibilities for diagnosis
There is now a so-called BLOB profile (Binary Large Objects) for the IO-Link sensor-actuator communication standard, which can be used to transfer significantly larger amounts of data than before via IO-Link.
read more...With the 'IODDfinder', the IO-Link community has created a central manufacturer-independent database for IO device descriptions. This creates a central access point for all available IODDs - useful for manufacturers and users alike.
read more...The IO-Link community has published the IO-Link safety specification for international review on its website (www.io-link.com).
read more...With Time Sensitive Networks - TSN for short - a new standard in industrial communication technology is on the horizon. Over 160 experts attended the 'Industrial Ethernet TSN' congress in September 2016 to find out about the status quo of the emerging real-time standard.
read more...Last year, 3 million Profinet devices were launched on the market worldwide, according to the annual survey of the installed portfolio of Profibus & Profinet International (PI). This means that the annual figure for Profinet has surpassed that of Profibus for the first time.
read more...To ensure that everything runs smoothly in drive technology, clean interfaces are required between all parties involved. With this in mind, Profibus & Profinet International (PI) has now launched the certification of products with an encoder profile for Profinet.
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