PROFIBUS & PROFINET Intl. Reports Impressive Node Counts in Anniversary Year
Melissa Larson | March 24, 2015
PROFIBUS & PROFINET Intl. (PI) is announcing impressive node counts. With 10 million PROFINET devices installed in the market today, yet another milestone has been reached. The steep growth curve is set to continue. This is consistent with the forecasts of an ARC market study of trends in Ethernet-based systems, which stated that the growth of PROFINET is expected to exceed that of its competitors and the general industrial Ethernet market.
In the future, ever-greater amounts of data will have to be transferred to autonomous systems, higher-level systems such as MOM (Manufacturing Operation Management), or other locations via the cloud. PROFINET is the only standard that combines the strict real-time requirements of high-performance machines with the necessary openness for IP communication.
Even though it has been on the market for a long time, PROFIBUS continues to report impressive market growth. At the end of 2014, over 50 million PROFIBUS devices were installed in industrial plants worldwide, about 3.6 million more than the previous year. This number shows that user confidence in PROFIBUS is as high as ever. PROFIBUS PA is also recording steady growth. Around 9 million PA devices are now installed in the process automation sector including around 800,000 more than in 2013. PI is currently working closely with users to introduce the requirements of process automation in PROFINET.
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