PROFINET –
The open Industrial Ethernet Standard

In industrial automation consistency throughout all levels with an open ethernet standard and no extra costs involved is a key factor to success. PROFINET the open, cross-vendor ethernet standard is based on Industrial Ethernet and enables direct and transparent access from the management level all the way to the field level. With established IT-standards PROFINET offers additional options such as web-services and Network Security. PROFINET is well established with more than 1.1 million installed nodes in the field and an expected growth rate of more than 35 percent per year.

Highest availability and minimized maintenance costs call for comprehensive diagnostics. With PROFINET we are offering a highly flexible and integrated diagnostic concept. Possible malfunctions are automatically localized and visualized. With IT technologies diagnostics is also possible via web-services, guaranteeing you plant availability and transparency at all times with remote access over ethernet.

Flexibility in plant structures and operation as well as minimized maintenance costs are major challenges today. With PROFINET in combination with Industrial Wireless LAN, we are offering you all possibilities ensuring fast and easy integration of mobile ethernet devices for highest flexibility in production – maintenance-free und cost-effective. Industrial Wireless LAN is as robust, secure, and reliable as the cable itself – also enabling fail-safe communication.

Plant availability is key to reaching maximum efficiency in your production processes today. PROFINET uses the established and proven PROFIsafe profile for fail-safe communication allowing standard and safety-related communication with the same media – wired or wireless. This way you can ensure highest protection for humans and machines in your enterprise while also fulfilling highest safety standards.

Today the realization of modular machine concepts and the integration of more and more participants call for highest performance in motion control applications. PROFINET allows you to create extremely fast, isochronous drive control systems for high performance motion control applications – while using unrestricted TCP/IP communication at the same time.

Fast configurations and a modular structure are key drivers in today's automation concepts. PROFINET CBA (Component Based Automation) offers you a standard for implementing modular machine concepts in your plant. This graphical engineering approach to machine-machine communication offers a time and cost-saving alternative to communication programming. Streamlined processes with a huge increase in profitability are the result.