ODVA’s biannual update of its network specifications helps enable end users and OEMS to address specific industrial automation applications. The April 2012 enhancements build on energy-related ...

Traditionally, the factory floor was configured with proprietary networks to connect controllers to devices and sensors to monitor data and provide simple control feedback to production lines. Growth ...

EtherNet/IP is an industrial automation networking protocol based on the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard that has dominated the world of IT networking for the past three decades. Despite Ethernet’s ...

Fieldbuses were originally designed to integrate field devices such as sensors, transmitters, actuators, valves and the like into the control system using digital networks. This technology would ...

ODVA has published new editions of specifications for the family of CIP Networks, enhancing the EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet, and ControlNet technologies. Updates contain important guidelines for ...

ODVA, the organization that supports network technologies built on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP, CompoNet, and ControlNet ODVA, the organization that supports network ...

Users of EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet technologies now have ways of handling energy management over industrial networks. ODVA, formerly known as the Open DeviceNet Vendors ...