A look at Profinet’s development, from its Profibus fieldbus origins to its adpatability amid industrial Ethernet’s evolution, and how it provides the determinism required by many industrial users.

We get a lot of questions here at PI North America from end users, distributors, system integrators, and device vendors. Here are our answers to the questions we get asked most. No, Profinet isn’t ...

To support users who leverage Ethernet-based industrial networking, the 750 Series PROFINET I/O Fieldbus couplers offer a built-in Ethernet switch, flexible I/O platform, and available connection to ...

R. STAHL has successfully tested its new Ethernet-APL Field Switch in extensive practical trials under realistic conditions.

Aiming at industrial networking, Renesas introduced a Profinet-certified IRT (isochronous real-time) and Profidrive software stack for some of its RZmicroprocessors today at Embedded World in ...

These are now available with the integrated PROFINET and EtherNet/IP fieldbus interfaces. This means that the sensors are now equipped with all common Industrial Ethernet protocols. The confocalDT ...

Munich, Germany – In order for Profinet devices of various types and from various manufacturers to carry out tasks in the process of automation properly, they have to exchange information in the ...