Darrell Halterman

Senior product manager of PACSystems controllers at Emerson’s machine automation solutions business

Overcome Common WMS Challenges with P4 Warehouse

Overcome Common WMS Challenges with P4 Warehouse

Every warehouse manager knows that the market is turning from distribution to eCommerce. However, these changes do not make eCommerce customers any less forgiving. Because of this, warehouses worldwide are looking for ways to move more products.

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.

PROFINET in the Age of Edge Computing

Traditional industrial Ethernet protocols continue to play a crucial role for PLC and PAC automation designs, and also for newer edge computing options.