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.
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.
Sep 2nd, 2020