White Papers

Automation users worldwide are driven to minimize energy consumption, to cut costs and comply with increasingly stringent ‘green’ obligations. PROFIenergy offers a solution, enabling the deployment of smart energy management strategies over PROFINET. This white paper introduces the PROFIenergy Profile and gives an in-depth overview with use cases and implementation.

Process fieldbuses and open fieldbus safety protocols have caught the attention of process users in recent years thanks to the potential to cut costs and improve diagnostics. Separate the facts from the hype in this ARC white paper: PROFIsafe and PROFIBUS for High Availability and Safety in the Process Industries.

The structures and topologies of conventional network technology used in IT and in automation differ only in the machine-level area. As a result, PROFINET can be easily integrated into existing network environments. This white paper describes PROFINET in IT terms and shows how PROFINET relates to IT topology. The adaptations required of Industrial Ethernet for…