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    Credentials for IIoT’s VIP lounge

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    The most recent software-based tools for enabling Industrial Internet of Things capabilities
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    All access with IIoT

    The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) goes backstage at the digitalization show
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    Balancing data access and security allows smooth IIoT sailing

    Jim Montague
    System integrator Actemium-Avanceon streamline manual jobs by using software agent programs to extract data from edge devices
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    Polypropylene plant virtualizes to meet demand

    Jim Montague
    Inter Pipeline’s pellet facility uses spare system capacity in Emerson’s DeltaV DCS and expands its thin-client network
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    Ease of use thanks to Ethernet

    Jim Montague
    System integrator Jordan Engineering shows how Ethernet paves the way to IIoT and security
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    The many advantages of Ethernet-APL

    Jim Montague
    Members of the NAMUR APL Task Force and ZVEI APL Task Force shared the advantages of Ethernet-APL at the SPS Nürnberg 2023 conference last November
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    Dow tests Ethernet-APL, too

    Jim Montague
    Dow wants to learn "how Ethernet-APL can provide more data" and is setting up evaluations at laboratories in Houston and the Netherlands
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    BASF leads the way

    Jim Montague
    Since building its test lab in 2019-20 in Germany, BASF is still the furthest along in testing, applying and improving Ethernet-APL
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    APL products start popping

    Jim Montague
    Phoenix Contact, Pepperl+Fuchs and Relcom presented Ethernet-APL products at Single-Pair Ethernet Education Day 2024
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    Snag removal speeds Ethernet into safety settings

    Jim Montague
    Ethernet-APL runs at 10 Mbps, faster than protocols like Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus PA or HART
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    Interoperability buyers beware

    Jim Montague
    Learn, question and test to secure promised capabilities