Open communication protocolsModbus TCP/IP is an open industrial protocol based on standard Ethernet. Modbus provides connectivity to programmable automation controllers (PACs), PLCs, and legacy ...

It used to be that if you used one particular vendor’s automation products or sensors, you were locked in forever. With today ...

The IIoT is at the basis of the so-called Smart Factories, new advanced manufacturing units of the fourth industrial revolution. Smart sensors, super-fast connections, artificial intelligence ...

Infineon Technologies, together with its partner RT-Labs, a provider of industrial communication solutions, has integrated six Fieldbus and Ethernet-based protocols in the firmware of the Infineon ...

Ethernet is ubiquitous. As long as it is the protocol of choice in IT, and the cost of even industrially hardened Ethernet switches and I/O are low, Ethernet will remain the communication protocol of ...

Ethernet has dominated wired computer-networking technology for decades, evidenced by its wide adoption in office, business, data-center, and home applications. Only more recently, though, has ...

The cards are based on the netX 90 system-on-chip (SoC) and are available in PCI Express and low-profile PCI Express form factors.

WERMA Signaltechnik is once again expanding its successful "eSIGN" LED signal tower series with a new version featuring a PROFINET interface.

Since some of the first industrial products using single pair Ethernet (SPE) were introduced a little more than five years ago, this new Ethernet cable type has garnered a lot of attention for its ...