Ready for the Future: Benefitting from the flexibility and breadth of EtherNet/IP
How does one prepare for the unknown? Every day, managers analyse risk and return for the investments of time and resources that are made, and they do it not with crystal balls and Tarot cards, but with data and careful research. As manufacturing facilities are retrofitted and built, industrial Ethernet has become the technology of choice because of what it delivers today and what it can deliver in the future, and when choosing how to replace multi-tier networking strategy with one standard network architecture, manufacturers have primarily turned to the proven benefits of EtherNet/IP(tm).