EPN Industrial Automation Blog

Profinet now safe

Developing safety-oriented technology is rather cost-intensive and carries a high investment risk which was the reason that companies from the automation industry hesitated for a long time

Ethernet in plastic

Industrial automation is very fertile ground for all kinds of »standards« and »norms«, many of them set by single companies and completely incompatible to others. This has actually changed a bit over the last decade, but there still are many proprietary issues around. Other than in former times, in the more diverse ecosystem of today’s industrial automation, it has become crucial for a »standard« to be accepted widely.