Addressing Ethernet Connectivity in Industry 4.0 Deployments

Analog Devices' Industrial Ethernet platform solutions provide device connectivity for a wide array of industrial, instrumentation and other equipment. They include both a physical layer and data-link layer to manage the industrial protocol and network traffic.

ADI Chronous network interface solutions are complete communications subsystems that enable inclusion of Industrial Ethernet connectivity to any end system. You can achieve multiprotocol connectivity without the need for any change to the application host code, removing the design burden of software integration.

ADI Industrial Ethernet platform solutions contain all of the technology needed to participate in star, line or ring network topologies, including the communications controller, flash, RAM, Ethernet switch and PHYs. They come with multiprotocol software solutions, enabling one hardware design to be used across all end systems with different software images to support different industrial protocols. A host processor connects to the network interface through ADI’s unified interface via an Ethernet, SPI or UART connection.

Part 1: Predictive Maintenance in the Digital Age

In the second in a series, MathWorks industry manager Philipp Wallner explores the steps needed to leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in effectively managing predictive maintenance. The video looks at considerations from data preparation to AI modeling to deployment to help manufacturers understand the steps needed to build a robust and effective AI-based maintenance model.

TTI's Michael Knight,  a noted influencer in the distribution and supply chain world, sits down with Machine Design's Senior Content Director Bob Vavra to discuss a host of topics—among them our ongoing supply chain woes and how severe semiconductor shortages are impacting the potential for growth in an age of electronic product expansion. The latest controllers from Emerson provide the foundation for industrial Internet connectivity. They feature a single control engine and a universal programming environment for application portability across multiple hardware platforms. For example, their RX3i controllers have built-in security protocols with cybersecurity tools to help protect against unauthorized code as well as man-in-the-middle and denial of service attacks.

Scalable and available in multiple form factors to support a wide variety of industrial applications, it can be configured for simplex and redundant operation, at incremental frame rates as fast as 3 ms in any configuration. The solution is built on a scalable, synchronized, hot-standby redundancy control platform to ensure uninterrupted control of your applications and processes with total transparency with switchover time as fast as 300 ms.