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    It only seems like Ethernet is everywhere. Sure, it underpins pretty much all networks, but there remain holdout places where it can't go, or where users are reluctant to send it. This delays or stands valuable signals and increasingly sophisticated data produced by intelligent sensors and instruments in the field, but it also prevents them getting back analyses or instructions that could optimize their processes.
    Industry Perspectives (sponsored)

    How radar enables ‘smart logistics’

    June 4, 2024
    Millions of radar sensors are in use today in industrial applications
    Sustainability

    Processing the human footprint’s impact

    June 3, 2024
    In Controlling the Future, Béla Lipták takes a process control-centric look at global warming and artificial intelligence
    Control

    Dear graduates

    May 31, 2024
    An open letter to our (hopefully) new process control engineers
    I/O Systems

    The last word on terminal blocks and I/O

    May 30, 2024
    Control’s monthly resources guide
    Industrial Networks

    What can Ethernet-APL do for you?

    May 29, 2024
    Ethernet-Advanced Physical Layer (APL) starts with intrinsic safety, but high speed, diverse data, network simplicity and other advantages quickly follow

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    Standards quartet are the cornerstones of Ethernet-APL

    May 28, 2024
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    The many advantages of Ethernet-APL

    May 24, 2024
    Members of the NAMUR APL Task Force and ZVEI APL Task Force shared the advantages of Ethernet-APL at the SPS Nürnberg 2023 conference last November
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    Dow tests Ethernet-APL, too

    May 23, 2024
    Dow wants to learn "how Ethernet-APL can provide more data" and is setting up evaluations at laboratories in Houston and the Netherlands
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    BASF leads the way

    May 22, 2024
    Since building its test lab in 2019-20 in Germany, BASF is still the furthest along in testing, applying and improving Ethernet-APL
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    APL products start popping

    May 21, 2024
    Phoenix Contact, Pepperl+Fuchs and Relcom presented Ethernet-APL products at Single-Pair Ethernet Education Day 2024
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    Snag removal speeds Ethernet into safety settings

    May 20, 2024
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    Interoperability buyers beware

    May 17, 2024
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    Alarm Management

    The philosophy of fire alarms and safety

    May 13, 2024
    How can the interplay between artificial and human intelligence help prevent catastrophe?
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    The clash of safety and security

    May 8, 2024
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    Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence—part 2

    May 6, 2024
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    Revealing the unrevealed

    May 2, 2024
    Following a thread of similar diagnostics can lead to an overlooked root cause