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.