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PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) is the world's leading industry association, the active Community for the standardization and dissemination of industrial communication and information technologies, a core topic of digitalization, automation and Industry 4.0.

 

With its core technologies PROFIBUS, PROFINET, IO-Link and omlox, PI is responsible for the development of its market-leading, open standards for all fields of application in industrial manufacturing. PI achieves this goal with its 24 regional PI associations (RPAs), all of which are members of the international umbrella organization PI, and their 1,700 members.

 

PI is continuously expanding its technology portfolio for the discrete manufacturing industry, the process industry and other sectors.

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Industrie 4.0

PI has set itself the target to make Industrie 4.0 reality and easily usable in practice. Lots of progress has already been made andmore highlights of the usage of PROFINET in Industrie 4.0 applications will follow.

Product Finder

Our Product Finder lets you easily and quickly locate products conforming to the PROFIBUS and PROFINET specifications. You can search using different criteria. The finder contains upwards of 2800 products at the moment and this number is growing all the time. A lot of technical information is included to help you specify in detail, and many products also have GSD files and other engineering resources attached for download.

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Next Trainings

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  3. IO-Link Members Assembly 2023

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Application Stories

Intelligence boost for classic machine tools

Machine tools play a central role in the production of Fig.1: Productionlineparts for the automotive industry, with hundreds of machines of different…

PROFINET-based bottling plant benefits from innovative RIO technology

A well-known plant engineering company develops and manufactures reliable and high-quality bottling plants since more than 50 years. The design is…

PROFINET and Remote IO prove very much in paint shop control

Process Automation systems based on Remote I/O (RIO) technology are installed since years in many paint shops and factories of the automotive industry…
PROFIBUS


PROFIBUS is a standardized, open, digital communications system for all areas of application in manufacturing and process automation.

PROFINET


PROFINET is the innovative open standard for Industrial Ethernet. It satisfies all requirements of automation technology.


IO-LINK is an independent sensor / actuator interface solution for use with all automation technologies.

omlox

 

Omlox is an open technology standard for real-time indoor localization systems for industrial manufacturing.