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Highlights 2025

Glossary Quality marks and standards

Bluetooth® is an industry standard developed in the 1990s by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group for wireless data transmission between devices over a short distance.

EtherNet/IP is a real-time Ethernet used mainly in automation engineering.

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EX Explosion protection falls under safety engineering and is intended to prevent physical harm and material damage.

With the CE mark, the manufacturer declares conformity with the directives in force in Europe.

European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group is an association of food production equipment suppliers, food processing companies, research insti tutes and public health institutions as a foundation. It was founded in 1989 with the aim of supporting hygiene measures during the production and packaging of food. The Food and Drug Administration is a US authority that issues approvals for food, active ingredients, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. It also issues recommendations for the use of materials in plants in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

The CSA Group (formerly Canadian Standards Association) is an inde pendent standards organization and accredited certifier for the North American and global market.

Deutsche Institut für Normung e. V. ( DIN ) is the independent platform for industrial and national standardization in Germany.

The EN 15267 standard relates to the certification of automatic measur ing systems (AMS) for monitoring air quality and emissions from stationary sources. The EN 14181 standard specifies quality assurance procedures for auto matic measuring systems (AMS) used to monitor emissions from stationary sources.

Foundation Fieldbus is a fully digital, serial and bidirectional communication system used as the basic network in an automation environment.

The HART protocol is a digital com munication protocol for field devices.

Ethernet Advanced Physical Layer describes a physical layer for Ethernet communication, based to some extent on single-pair Ethernet and developed specifically for the requirements of the process industry.

Endress+Hauser’s Heartbeat Technology is a technology for internal device diagnostics, verification and monitoring.