Renovation of the blast furnace at ArcelorMittal Méditerranée A digital giant in a human affair In response to exponential market demand, the annual production capacity at the ArcelorMittal site in Fos-sur-Mer, France, is due to rise from 4.6 to 5.3 million tons of...
In the early days of Ethernet, collisions on the network prevented its use in deterministic industrial applications. If two stations tried to transmit at the same time, a collision would result. The collision was detected and each station “backed off” a random time...
Process protection by means of Asset Management with PROFINET As the growth of PROFINET continues, new customer requirements for additional Asset Management functions have been incorporated. Added is the ability to record assets to make maintenance and operation...
To continue a practice-oriented further development of PROFIBUS and PROFINET, a deep understanding of users’ requirements with respect to Industrie 4.0 scenarios is needed. For this reason, use cases have been developed, assessed and harmonized first in the working...
Today, the field devices in processing plants, flow control, pressure and temperature, for example, but also the actuator technology are controlled either by 4-20 mA signals or by fieldbuses – such as PROFIBUS. They have proven well in their application for many...
The SPS/IPC/Drives Show just closed its doors and I must say it was an exciting show. Of course, Industrie 4.0 and IIoT dominated the fair from the 30 thousand foot view, but the terms tend to be too vague and everyone has their own views about what these describe. On...
