Belden is Contributing to the Development of a Standardized Industrial Communication Solution Combining TSN with the open OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) specifications, which is the aim of a new working group of the OPC Foundation, will allow the Industry 4.0 vision of a high performance real-time capable network to be realized without any [...]
Belden Modular Industrial Patch Panel High-efficiency photovoltaic system solution for SMA Solar Technology provides one platform for fibre, copper or combination cabling. Belden has delivered a solution for photovoltaic power plants that meet the highest requirements for SMA Solar Technology. SMA Solar Technology is a specialist in high-efficiency photovoltaic system technologies and solar inverters [...]
Network Management Software Improves Productivity By Heather MacKenzie, Belden. As your industrial Ethernet network develops into a communications infrastructure, monitoring and supervising it becomes more challenging. You can no longer get it done efficiently or accurately using 'sneakernet' or with local workstations managing production cells. Good network management plays a key role in maintaining [...]
Put Industrial Wireless On The Front Burner By Brian Oulton, Belden. Changes in the standards have improved the speed and reliability and made it easy to deploy. Implementing wireless for your industrial application is probably somewhere on your stove top, so before you simmer, boil or decide to toss the whole concoction out, I [...]
The Smart Factory of the Future Editor’s Note: This article was created with expertise from Andreas Dreher, the strategic technology manager at Hirschmann Automation and Control. Earlier this year I published our first article on the Smart Factory of the Future. It described a vision of manufacturing where systems are more intelligent, flexible and [...]
Industrial Networking: The Smart Factory of the Future Editor’s Note: This article was created with expertise from Andreas Dreher, the strategic technology manager at Hirschmann Automation and Control. When it comes to industrial networking today, many factories and process control facilities around the world are focused on upgrading to managed Ethernet networks. With the long, [...]