When your factory runs only three months a year, you’re always investing in ways to increase the yield from your equipment. That’s why Joey Scarborough, general manager of the cotton gin facility ...

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 ...

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 latest addition to the AZ Series family of single-axis stored data drivers now includes AC and DC input. Both input types are now available with PROFINET communication. The AlphaStep AZ Series ...

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 ...