Most new industrial machines or retrofits require some form of connectivity to an existing communications infrastructure. From industrial fieldbuses to 3G cellular networks to web interfaces, even ...
Terms can sometimes play tricks on the mind. Take EtherNet/IP, for example. Many people will read “IP” as internet protocol and think that EtherNet/IP refers to plain old, standard industrial Ethernet ...
Engineers familiar with industrial controls no doubt have noticed the influx of schemes for making Ethernet real time. These range from protocols such as Ether-net/IP which build real-time response ...