Profibus & Profinet International

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New Virtual Meeting Place for Technology Enthusiasts

Profibus & Profinet International - With the PROFINET Ecosystem Platform, PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) has set up a virtual collaboration space for anyone who would like to actively play a part in the future of PROFINET technology. A center of knowledge for developers and product managers is being established with a new PROFINET website (www.profinet.com) and the associated PROFINET Community Forum.

A new liaison: IT/OT convergence by combining IO-Link and mioty

Profibus & Profinet International - The IO-Link community and the mioty alliance are increasing their collaborative efforts and will cooperate more closely in the future. To this end, they’ve created a joint working group focusing on the adaptation of IO-Link (IODD) data models and their seamless integration into the mioty standard. The aim of this close alliance is to enable low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies for industrial IO-Link applications.

Over 100 million PROFIBUS and PROFINET devices in use

Profibus & Profinet International - Despite challenges brought about by the pandemic, products featuring technology from PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) have been very well accepted by users. With the total number of PROFIBUS and PROFINET products so far installed at plants has exceeded 104 million, an impressive threshold has been crossed. On a yearly basis, PROFINET has beaten all previous records with a total of 7.3 million products placed on the market.