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  • Nagel Precision connects honing machines to networks

    Nagel Precision in the U.S. uses EtherNet/IP and Anybus X-gateways to connect their honing machines to any industrial network.
    28 June, 2013 | 3 minutes

  • Happy Birthday Ethernet!

    IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) was first approved as an IEEE standard on 23 June 1983 and since then has been regularly updated. Now that it's 30 years old, can we trust it?
    27 June, 2013 | 3 minutes

  • Software Toolbox changes Licensing for OPC Data Client

    The OPC Data Client family is available with one easy installer and one license, significantly reducing the total cost of the components.
    27 June, 2013 | 3 minutes

  • Beckhoff Growth Continues with New NA Headquarters

    By Bill Lydon, Editor On May 30, 2013, I attended the grand opening of Beckhoff Automation’s new $8 million North American headquarters. The facility features a training center, an ESD-protected PC repair center, and a building automation system based on Beckhoff‘s own hardware and software.
    21 June, 2013 | 3 minutes

  • Softing's PROFINET software helps control steel plant

    SAB, a producer of high strength steel, standardized on Softing's PROFINET protocol software for use with its PC-based Proview control system in a new steel plant that was built in Mobile, Alabama.
    20 June, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • National Instruments to resell Kollmorgen Servos

    NI will sell Kollmorgen’s EtherCAT AKD brushless servo drive and single-cable AKM motor.
    18 June, 2013 | 1 minutes

  • Sercos publishes news magazine

    32-page news magazine includes feature articles on control solutions using the sercos bus ranging from drive and controller-based controls to PC-based control systems.
    14 June, 2013 | 1 minute

  • Where's the Beef? Kepware finds it

    Beef producer in Kansas uses KEPServerEX software to help confirm that its meat automatically moves from the warehouse to the retail location without human intervention.
    11 June, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • Dataforth publishes Corporate Capabilities Brochure

    The 16-page document covers 1200+ data acquisition and control, signal conditioning, and data communication products.
    10 June, 2013 | 1 minutes

  • 11th sercos PlugFest successfully completed

    During the two-day event, many new sercos products from competing vendors were intensively tested with each other to insure users of interoperability of sercos products.
    06 June, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • Ethernet in Process Automation to Double by 2016

    Industrial Ethernet nodes in process industries are projected to rise to 8.7 million units in 2016, up a whopping 96 percent from 4.4 million in 2011, as Ethernet increasingly challenges fieldbus for leadership in the industrial networking market.
    05 June, 2013 | 3 minutes

  • IO-Link Mapping Guide for sercos released

    This user guide helps an automation engineer uniformly connect and integrate sensors and actuators equipped with an IO-Link interface into a sercos system.
    16 May, 2013 | 1 minutes

  • Sercos III specification update available

    Specification enhancements include updates to the sercos communication protocol and to the different sercos profiles (drive, I/O, encoder and energy).
    02 May, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • Sercos exhibit at Hannover a success

    The user organisation saw a significant increase in the number of visitors to its booth as well as in the quality of contacts compared to the previous year.
    26 April, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • Sercos updates free Monitor software

    The free tool allows a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the data traffic in sercos III networks, easing development, testing and troubleshooting.
    16 April, 2013 | 1 minute

  • 50th PI Competence Center Established

    KW Software of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the 50th PI Competence Center (PICC) for PROFIBUS and PROFINET.
    10 April, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • FDT to support CIP networks in FDT2

    The FDT Group will develop an annex to the FDT2 specification for users of EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • ODVA announces “initiative for process automation”

    Based on ODVA’s industrial EtherNet/IP, the results of this initiative will provide end users with more choices to deploy a complete Ethernet solution for process automation starting with connectivity down to the field level.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • ODVA forms special interest group for machinery information

    The SIG will develop standards for the exchange of information between machines, and between machines and supervisory systems using EtherNet/IP and CIP, sercos III and/or OPC UA, whenever possible.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • MDIS Selects OPC UA for MCS-DCS Protocol Standard

    MDIS selected OPC UA as the Master Control System (MCS) and Distributed Control System (DCS) protocol standard for offshore oil and gas production.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
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