Posted to News on 19th Jun 2012, 00:00
Endress+Hauser increases commitment to ODVA
ODVA has announced that Endress+Hauser, one of the world's leading suppliers of measurement and auto-mation equipment as well as solutions for the process industries, will become a principal member, joining leading suppliers Bosch Rexroth, Cisco Systems, Rockwell Automation, Omron and Schneider Electric.
Endress+Hauser's increased partici-pation in ODVA builds on its long-term support of open industrial networking technologies, including the company's portfolio of mass flow meters designed for the EtherNet/IP network. ODVA will introduce Endress+Hauser as a principal member at its 2012 Industry Conference and 15th Annual meeting
"ODVA is one of the world's largest consortiums advancing open, ind-ustrial networking standards through commercially-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology and a media-independent network protocol," said Katherine Voss, executive director, ODVA. "We welcome Endress+Hauser in this consortium as we have a shared vision for leveraging EtherNet/IP to simplify an end user's network architecture."
With leading industrial automation suppliers such as Endress+Hauser as principal members, ODVA is one of the first associations which strives to support Industrial Ethernet down to the field level in process automation. This will help provide manufacturers a complete, plant-wide network infrastructure for process, motion, safety and discrete applications and from plant-floor to IT systems.
