Articles & News on PROFINET

Support Expands for the Process Automation Device Information Model

  • August 23, 2022
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The collaboration promises to simplify integration of OT and IT systems by optimizing process automation end users’ management of data from field devices.

PROFINET North America Welcomes New Technical Marketing Director

  • April 12, 2022
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Industry veteran Tom Weingartner brings Industrial Ethernet experience and broad perspective.

PROFINET Community Stack Simplifies the Integration of TSN Functions

  • December 8, 2021
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To support the spread and interoperability of PROFINET over TSN, PI has launched a PROFINET community stack project.

Expansions to TSN and Security in PROFINET Specification

  • August 30, 2021
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PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) is making an active contribution in this area and is committed to comprehensive and practicable standardization of industrial communication, which is continuously evolving in line with progress in implementation, but also with the technologies used.

Announcing IO-Link North America

  • July 26, 2021
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PI North America, the non-profit member-supported trade association for promoting industrial networking technologies in North America, has signed a contract with the IO-Link Community, on behalf of the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation (PNO) to become a Regional IO-Link Interest Group (RIOLIG) for North America.

PNO Specifies HARTING ix Industrial as New PROFINET Interface

  • June 29, 2021
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70% smaller Ethernet interface offers miniaturisation potential for PROFINET users.

PI North America Launches PROFIBUS Online Training Course

  • April 21, 2021
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PI North America, the non-profit member-supported organization for PROFIBUS, PROFINET, IO-Link, and omlox technologies in North America, is excited to launch a brand new PROFIBUS Online Training Course.

SPE Industrial Partner Network Quintuples Its Membership Before Its First Birthday

  • October 26, 2020
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With currently 37 members, the number of founding members in November 2019 has more than quintupled even before its first birthday. Clear tendency: More and more members are joining every week.

PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) publishes OPC UA specification for PROFINET

  • June 18, 2020
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This specification describes a standardized OPC UA object model for PROFINET devices which enables PROFINET devices from a wide variety of different manufacturers to transfer device data to asset management systems in a standardized way, for example. Standardization makes information collection significantly easier for tool manufacturers, regardless of the manufacturer, but this is just the beginning of PI’s vertical integration strategy.

HMS Networks Report: industrial Ethernet now makes up for 59% of the global market

  • May 8, 2019
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As an independent supplier of solutions for industrial communication and the Industrial Internet of Things, HMS has an insight into the industrial network market. Here are some of the trends they see within industrial communication in 2019.