Judging from last week’s IMTS Show, machine tool controllers have made strides not just in performance but also in their ease-of-use and flexibility. “Speed is always important, but there has also ...

Almost all PCs and laptops feature a built-in Ethernet port that supports 10/100-Mbit/s connections. But with corporate local-area networks (LANs) moving to 1-Gigabit Ethernet (1GE), a port upgrade is ...

EtherCAT is an open, realtime, and deterministic Ethernet fieldbus standard widely regarded as one of the best industrial networks to date. One reason for its growing use is that it's several orders ...

The BC9120, BC9020 and BC9050 are the latest variants in the vendor’s BC9000 and BX9000 Ethernet TCP/IP controller family. The BC controllers include a direct connection to I/O terminals and can be ...

Yeah I haven't heard of an Intel one. In addition, sometimes it is cheaper overall to let someone else do the grunt work if you can get a good term with them on buying bulk.

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 ...