PROFInet - Linking worlds

In accordance with customer demand, PROFInet presents an open and consistent concept for the vertical integration of PROFIBUS. The use of Ethernet ensures both the openness and the consistency of the concept. PROFInet also fully meets customer demand for investment protection, i.e. an integration of existing communication and automation structures. The PROFInet concept represents the basis for a distributed automation and engineering system, whereby PROFInet only defines the minimum common features necessary for an open, manufacturer-independent automation system. For this purpose, PROFInet relies on the existing product range and expands or supplements the functions required for distributed automation.