Rockwell Automation to Acquire Hiprom for Sub-Saharan region

Rockwell Automation has announced it has agreed to purchase Hiprom, a leading process control and automation systems integrator headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hiprom customers include the top global mining firms with precious metal and coal operations in the Sub-Saharan region. Hiprom's management team

Gateway meets AIDA requirements

Turck presents special BL67 fieldbus gateways for automotive engineering Turck developed new Profinet fieldbus gateways for its I/O-system BL67, in accordance to the guidelines of AIDA (Automation initiative of German automobile manufacturers), that are mainly intended for the use in the automobile bodyshell

PROFIenergy comes free with module

The Anybus-CompactCom Profinet module will soon support the green automation initiative of the automotive industry. HMS(www.anybus.com) expands the functionality of the CompactCom 2-port Profinet IO module by adding support for the PROFIenergy profile. The built-in PROFIenergy profile server supports the PNO profile defined parameters and services for controlling the

PHOENIX CONTACT release RJ45 Plug Connectors for PROFINET

:- Quick Connection Technology for Profinet The new RJ 45 plug connectors with Quickon fast connection technology for Profinet from Phoenix Contact www.phoenixcontact.com allow four AWG22 wires to be quickly and reliably connected. The PNO Guideline specifies AWG22 wires to configure Profinet topologies. Assembly using the insulation displacement technique requires