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    IIOT industrial internet of things concept. Technology and Business
    A network by any name can fly right with UNS and PA-DIM
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    Endress+Hauser, Softing and VEGA share varying perspectives on IIoT and how to gain the most benefits from it
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    The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is using whatever network gets its data where it needs to go on time
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    Dwaine Plauche of Emerson’s AspenTech business shows how aggregating data sources gets users the answers they need
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    Automation Solutions Ecuador developed a hybrid SCADA architecture for boxed generators
    Find understanding and common language. Bridge gaps, build connections, and foster understanding. Need for clarity, patience, and a shared commitment to dismantling barriers.
    Paul Sereiko of the FieldComm Group shows how the PA-DIM provides a protocol-agnostic way to present device information
    Source: Profibus Nutzerorganisation and Jim Montague
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    Profibus Nutzerorganisation exhibits 14 different Ethernet-APL products at Hannover Fair 2025
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    How Ethernet-APL technology improves plant safety and efficiency with 10 Mbps communication speed and simplified parameterization, while ensuring compliance with cybersecurity...
    Source: ODVA and Jim Montague
    Figure 1: ODVA’s exhibit at Hannover Fair 2025 included a demonstration of five present or prototype Ethernet-APL devices, including Vegapuls 80 GHz radar level transmitter from VEGA, and StoneL Axiom position indicator from Valmet. They were joined or accompanied by two APL field switches from Phoenix Contact and Pepperl+Fuchs, and two PACs from Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric.
    ODVA and Rockwell Automation demonstrate how Ethernet-APL’s common interfaces let switches, controllers work with transmitters and indicators.
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    Phoenix Contact explains how Ethernet-APL’s operating profiles provide electricity safely
    Source: Pepperl+Fuchs and Jim Montague
    Figure 1: In a recent demonstration at Hannover Fair 2025 in Germany, Pepperl+Fuchs showed how its FieldConnex Ethernet-APL Ex ia intrinsically safe (IS) rail field switch with eight, 16 or 24 APL ports and its web-based interface work with Endress+Hauser’s Cerabar PMC 71B transmitter and Samson’s Trovis 3797 valve positioner, which both have the interface built in to communicate via Ethernet-APL with the communication protocol of any switch or controller that supports it.
    Pepperl+Fuchs shows how Ethernet-APL field switches can work with transmitters, positioners and other components.
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