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Highlights 2023

Data boost with Profinet for process instrumentation Ethernet-APL: easy, quick, digital

Advantages for engineers • Designed for process and hybrid industries • Super-modern technology that supports digitalization concepts • Flexible and scalable design of the network topology • No calculation of Ex zones required (2-WISE) • High availability thanks to a multitude of redundancy mechanisms Advantages for operating and maintenance personnel • Enhanced performance thanks to accurate digital process values, high-speed data transmission and easy remote access • Optimized reliability thanks to continuous diagnostics, local and remote monitoring • Seamless data access thanks to a homogeneous network for 2nd channel and IIoT • Start-up records for automatic configuration in case of device replacement Note on availability Endress+Hauser's first Profinet enabled field devices with APL interface are expected to be released in the course of 2023.

During planning and operation, process plant operators strive for efficient engineering and reliable production quality, rapid start-up and fast commissioning. Working with plant equipment, especially field instrumentation, built around older technologies like HART or Profibus is often a complex issue. There is increasing demand for higher data performance but also for driving down costs for devices and system integration. Existing technologies With digitalization, the commonly used fieldbus technology Profibus has been pushed to its limit for some years now – low bandwidth, lack of speed and complicated protocol conversions. This is similarly the case with the even more dated analog 4 to 20 mA measure ment technology with HART protocol. HART, however, is dogged by even greater performance losses as soon as the equipment is expected to produce high data rates for auto mation tasks. The newly introduced APL (advanced physi cal layer) for industrial Ethernet protocols, such as Profinet or even EtherNet/IP, has seen a kind of paradigm shift. The new technology also makes it possible to use the aforementioned protocols directly in the harsh environment of process automation. Ethernet-APL is an advanced physical layer for Ethernet. The technology fulfills all requirements of process plants and as good as brings Ethernet and its benefits into the field of process auto- mation. Ethernet-APL enables complete digitalization in the process industry and in all life-cycle phases.

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