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Improving industrial ethernet for the process industries

NAMUR and ODVA announce collaboration on the optimization of industrial Ethernet for process automation technologies and applications.

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When it comes to industrial networking, it’s been clear for many years that Ethernet will be the plant floor network of the future. Even the fieldbus technology providers agree on this point, as they have all released industrial Ethernet versions for their respective protocols. But the transition is not exactly moving forward rapidly.

Feedback to a recent Automation World survey on fieldbus and industrial Ethernet installations indicates that fieldbus networks still represent the majority of the installed industrial networking base and fieldbus installations are expected to grow by 7 percent a year. Despite this, the move toward industrial Ethernet continues upward at a growth rate of 17 percent a year. In other words, the tipping point toward industrial Ethernet as the de facto plant floor network is on the horizon.

Highlighting the work that remains to be done to broaden the application of industrial Ethernet, ODVA (the organization supporting the Common Industrial Protocol) and NAMUR (an international automation user association) announced that the two groups are working together to “advance the adoption of industrial Ethernet in the process industries.”
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