Darrell Halterman

Senior product manager of PACSystems controllers at Emerson’s machine automation solutions business
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Figure 1: Certain PLCs and edge controllers, such as those offered by Emerson, can be installed in redundant pairs on a PROFINET MRP ring to provide controller and media redundancy, often needed for critical control applications.
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