After all the continuing hooforaw about plant networking and fieldbus, here comes Real Time Automation, and their website,
www.instantautomation.net, and the ability to add networking and fieldbus to whatevertheheck you are designing. According to the website, a designer can buy a single chip from them with networking capability for:
- Ethernet/IP
- DeviceNet
- Modbus TCP
- Profinet I/O
All on a single chi...