Terms can sometimes play tricks on the mind. Take EtherNet/IP, for example. Many people will read “IP” as internet protocol and think that EtherNet/IP refers to plain old, standard industrial Ethernet ...
“Not being overcomplicated is Modbus TCP/IP’s biggest draw, not only for PLCs, but especially for PC-based applications,” said Jason Haldeman, senior product specialist for I/O and networking at ...
Yet one of the biggest problems with Ethernet in industrial applications is the non-deterministic nature of the data transmission. For many applications, Ethernet's Network Time Protocol (NTP) ...