HomeMichael BowneExecutive Director, PI North AmericaRoboticsA Uniform Interface for RobotsOnce again, a group of companies has banded together to create a vendor-independent standard and found a home in Profibus International to promote, harmonize, and certify their technology.Business IntelligenceInformation Models: Defining Data and RelationsAs ever-more amounts of manufacturing data are being used at enterprise IT levels, the challenge of easily accessing, collecting, and processing that data is growing. To tackle this challenge, the power of information models has become clear.IIoTFind Yourself with a Real-Time Location SystemLaunched in 2020, omlox is the world’s first interoperable standard for location technology in industrial environments.CommunicationEthernet at the Sensor LevelIt’s an exciting time for the factory automation sensor and process control instrumentation markets as Ethernet evolves for wider use in manufacturing. With 2-wire industrial Ethernet products becoming available, Ethernet communication becomes viable even
